Have you ever had one of those moments when you hear something come out of your mouth, and the moment you hear yourself say the words, you immediately wish you could take them all back?  Earlier this year, I was standing in front of, well the entire congregation at First UMC, maybe 150 people, and out of my mouth came the words, “Parkinson’s Sucks!” It was during the time when the Pastor invites you to make prayer requests.  Yeah.  Our church calls it “Joys and Concerns”; probably similar to several other services happening across the country on any given Sunday morning.  I just couldn’t believe what I heard myself say; I was so embarrassed, I wanted to crawl under the pew. “Parkinson’s Sucks.”  From the bottom of my heart, I have to apologize for using such lingo.  And please, please, please don’t tell my mom that came out of my mouth.  And for a prayer requests!  How could I be so inappropriate!?  What a knuckle-head I am! But it does.  Every last stinking symptom; the … [Read more...]