Have Faith, Take Action

I've just recently recovered from an infected tooth, which resulted in me needing a double dose of antibiotics, but this blog is not to bemoan my very unhappy mouth and face at the beginning of that little tale.

Having recently booked a much longed for trip to California, it went through my mind this morning albeit briefly, momentary fear about getting a cold or a tummy bug before or during the trip.  I generally don't subscribe to these things but the thought was there.  I have come to learn that with any negative thought it has it's opposite, in this case to ask the question "Knowing that antibiotics have damaging after effects on the delicate balance of the ecology in my body what would I need to do to help myself counteract that?" 

Minutes later...silence.

Having decided that worrying would be just the low energy thing I needed to do in order to invite some lurking bug in to my world I pushed the thought aside and set off to meet a friend.  Half an hour later laughing over my tooth story, quite unprompted, she informed me that there were some vitamins that can be taken that counteract the negative after effects of taking antibiotics, ahhhh! Life had heard me this morning and was taking care of business.  My friend couldn't remember the name of them but it was some concoction that health food shops might know about. 

Now, when that something greater in Life steps in to help, it is not meant to be a one sided thing.  Whereby you state your question or desire and it comes along like Cinderella's Fairy Godmother and waves it's magic wand, as some seem to think it is. 

You have to help yourself, Life just gives you a helping hand, it's basically teamwork that will get you through.  Firstly, you have to develop Faith.  Faith in order to believe that this was whatever or whoever responding, (giving IT a label just confuses the issue) but there really is a greater Life Force around us and this was it working.  My part was to take action. 

Action has to be the next step after having acquired the Faith bit.  So, having said our goodbyes I called the local health food shop, asked the question and straightaway I was informed that I needed Acidophilus, next job to go and collect it.  Sorted.  Taken three times a day for the next 2-3 weeks my bodies' ecology will be balanced once again.

I know that I'm going to be fine for my trip.  I know this because I took action towards helping myself and more importantly I had faith enough to know that Life was giving me the answer to that mornings question it's my faith in that greater scheme of things that I know my trip before and after IS going to be symptom free.

Have Faith and take Action.