SPECIAL

When I say special in this situation I'm thinking of unique. Those things that mark life in some way that makes us feel different or see things different.

In my life I had an experience several years ago in terms of health. I had a life threatening bout with pneumonia that also ended up with me finding out I was a diabetic.

Yet, God worked a special event out of that process. He used it to deliver me from my addiction to processed sugar.

Somewhere in all the days in the hospital and being on a restricted diet, I lost my craving for sugar. But it went beyond that.

Later I developed a literal aversion to sugar. Some might think that was a coincidence or just induced on a psychological level, but I feel it was God's way of making sure I didn't go back to my old habits. It wasn't that I deserve such a gift, it was simply part of his purpose that I might serve him for different reasons.

Over the years I have had little reminders of the fact that this aversion to sugar is permanent. The other night I had one of those "special" moments.

It happen when I picked up what I thought to be some peanut butter crackers at this store. It turned out they were a snack bag size of peanut butter cookies.

That only took a couple of bites before my stomach started burning and I literally became deathly ill. Which the moment I started feeling that way I rechecked the bag and discovered me error.

Needless to say I have had to check peanut butter of my list of foods. I truly loved it, but now the reaction has left me with the kind of reaction that only draws a bad result with my buddy.

So in this case, I'm treating that as special in a good way. It did reaffirm that sugar is definitely one thing I can't even in any way touch. Which I'm hardly complaining about.

In these days when some boast of the Lord working miracles in their lives, I can't say I feel like bragging about this change. And it doesn't make me as a person special.

But when I see so many who suffer from sugar addiction, I am truly humble by the fact that God would in his grace touch my life in that way.

Some might look upon such an experience as a bad thing. Since I don't crave sugar I don't in anyway feel any sadness over the change.

I just rejoice that there are ways that God granted me a special moment, which in so many ways touched my life in a positive way. And that is a kind of special for which I can and will always rejoice.