Harvey Millican's Blog: Musings of a Trad Dad

I noticed Saturday evening that I had developed a sore throat. As previously mentioned, I don’t usually get sick. But I have no been on the road for a month, mingling with different people in different environs. Anyone is bound to come down with something.

So Saturday night as I was headed to bed, the hypochondriac in me had become convinced that I was not long for this world. The pain was intense. Was it strep? No one around here has that. Was it an esophageal tumor? I have a vivid imagination.

Whatever it was isn’t important now because it is gone. In fact I woke up Sunday morning feeling great. This time I took ivermectin pills. That’s a first for me. I usually take the 1% injectable solution but my wife had brought a supply of the pills with us. I did notice this… With the pills I have not had the vision halo that I have with the solution.

Every time I take this stuff I ask myself what else they’ve kept from us. I remind myself why I no longer trust doctors. I thank God for His Providence such that a fungus from atop a mushroom can cure so many ills.

Strange times we live in.

God be praised!

This morning at the parish I attend when visiting family in New Jersey, we celebrated the external solemnity of the Sacred Heart.

In the Epistle from Ephesians we heard the following:

“For this cause I bow my knees to the Father of Our Lord Jesus Christ, of Whom all paternity in heaven and earth is named, that He would grant you according the riches of His glory, to be strengthened by His Spirit with might unto the inward man, that Christ may dwell by faith in your hearts: that, being rooted and grounded in charity, you may be able to comprehend with all the saints, what is the breadth and length, and height and depth: to know also the charity of Christ which surpasseth all knowledge , that you may be filled unto all the fullness of God.”

I thank God for sharing His paternity with me! Being a father has truly been the greatest joy of my life. I pray that I may also strengthen my family unto God.

Prayers for all the dads today!