Dead People Don't Itch
Dr. Ernest L. Easley
John 4
I'm not a fan of poison ivy. A poison ivy breakout is like having an uninvited guest show up for the weekend: unwanted and often irritating!
After cleaning out my flowerbeds recently, a few days later I developed a rather severe poison ivy breakout on my arm. I learned that if you have a poison ivy breakout, it's going to itch. You can self medicate and get some temporary relief, but that itch is going to return like throwing a boomerang.
I heard about a man who bought a new boomerang and killed himself trying to throw the old one away.
When you're battling poison ivy all you can think about is eliminating the itch! And I found out that the worst thing you can do is scratch it! And what's the main thing you want to do when itching? Scratch it!
Saying not to scratch is like telling a child not to eat any of the cookies in the cookie jar in the kitchen. That's all he wants do and when you have poison ivy, all you want to do is scratch it to get some relief!
I was getting dressed one morning before a church staff meeting and looked down at my itchy, blistering, red poison ivy breakout and thought, ''It may be summer, but I really need to wear a long sleeve shirt to cover that up.''
That's what I did. As I was driving to the church for the meeting and itching like crazy longing for some relief, it dawned on me:
Dead People Don't Itch!
No one buried in the cemetery ever itches from poison ivy because Dead People Don't Itch! Do you know what I did next? I started thanking God for my poison ivy breakout even though it was itching like mad. That itch was a reminder that I was alive! And as I walked into that staff meeting, I had a bounce in my step, itching all the way.
As I sat down in that staff meeting with my long sleeve shirt on covering up my itch, nobody in the room knew that I was sitting there with my arm itching like crazy.
No one could see it. No one knew the itching tha ...
Dr. Ernest L. Easley
John 4
I'm not a fan of poison ivy. A poison ivy breakout is like having an uninvited guest show up for the weekend: unwanted and often irritating!
After cleaning out my flowerbeds recently, a few days later I developed a rather severe poison ivy breakout on my arm. I learned that if you have a poison ivy breakout, it's going to itch. You can self medicate and get some temporary relief, but that itch is going to return like throwing a boomerang.
I heard about a man who bought a new boomerang and killed himself trying to throw the old one away.
When you're battling poison ivy all you can think about is eliminating the itch! And I found out that the worst thing you can do is scratch it! And what's the main thing you want to do when itching? Scratch it!
Saying not to scratch is like telling a child not to eat any of the cookies in the cookie jar in the kitchen. That's all he wants do and when you have poison ivy, all you want to do is scratch it to get some relief!
I was getting dressed one morning before a church staff meeting and looked down at my itchy, blistering, red poison ivy breakout and thought, ''It may be summer, but I really need to wear a long sleeve shirt to cover that up.''
That's what I did. As I was driving to the church for the meeting and itching like crazy longing for some relief, it dawned on me:
Dead People Don't Itch!
No one buried in the cemetery ever itches from poison ivy because Dead People Don't Itch! Do you know what I did next? I started thanking God for my poison ivy breakout even though it was itching like mad. That itch was a reminder that I was alive! And as I walked into that staff meeting, I had a bounce in my step, itching all the way.
As I sat down in that staff meeting with my long sleeve shirt on covering up my itch, nobody in the room knew that I was sitting there with my arm itching like crazy.
No one could see it. No one knew the itching tha ...
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