I know I said I was going to do a recap to “God in the Boonies” BUT… OH MY GOSH.

In the mid-90’s God told Leland and me to drink a certain amount of water. To cut out sugary drinks (like soda) and excess caffeine. We did. And were faithful to that.

Fast forward to the evening of July 11 2025. 

I ate two slices of plain pizza. Within 15 minutes I felt nauseous and threw up what I had just eaten. I felt so bad I couldn’t even take a drink of water without throwing it up. I felt like this for 2-1/2 days. This point is important. No liquids.

By late Sunday afternoon, my son was so concerned about a text I sent (he said it didn’t sound like “his” mom}, he first asked my landlord/lady to do a wellness check because it would take him 30-45 minutes to get to me.

He also called an ambulance to come to the house. He told me later that God told him bluntly to “get my butt to the hospital now. I needed to be rehydrated fast”.

At the time, I argued with him about hospital but finally gave in. Not graciously. I did not know I was seeing things that weren’t there and saying things that made perfectly good sense – only to me. I had NO idea I was worrying everyone. My landlady is a Nurse Practitioner – you’d think I would have listened to her.

At the hospital, they discovered I was dangerously and SEVERELY dehydrated and had low potassium. After an IV, by the next morning, it had lowered significantly. 

I went home Tuesday late morning. At home I was still trying to look at things to know they really hadn’t been there. It took until Wednesday morning before my mind cleared up enough to know I hadn’t seen anything.

The minute I was alone on Tuesday, I started talking to the Holy Spirit and He started clearly talking back. I asked Him to show me exactly what had happened and how it had happened. Don’t ask God or the Holy Spirit something like that unless you are ready for the answer.

It was pointed out how many times recently I hadn’t done something He had told me to do (like He reminded me I wasn’t drinking water like I usually did and to get back to it). I agreed then got sidetracked. I am not going to tell you everything but suffice it to say, He had tried to keep me out of the hospital.

I had been dehydrated for at least a month. He had tried to tell me. Thank God that God is so full of mercy. He made sure I got the help I needed.

And my worst mistakes? I hadn’t been spending my morning Holy Spirit time like I usually do. He always tells (sometimes warns) me of things to come (sometimes things I need to change to avoid it). (John 16:13) 

I also had low Word level because I’d slacked off a couple of weeks on reading the one thing that would have stopped all of this – God’s Word.

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1 SAMUEL 15:22  “… to obey is better than sacrifice …”