The Theology of the Cross -

That’s what’s going through my head right now. Along with a migraine that just won’t go away. It’s the long term effect of COVID that I originally got in April. I tested positive for COVID two days after Easter. It was a long initial battle for me. I had some common cold-like symptoms. But also fatigue, fuzzy head, and headaches. The last three just wouldn’t go away. For 7–8 weeks. And then they slowly did. And just in time too. We went on vacation and I was relieved of my symptoms for the most part. I had an occasional headache on vacation, but not much of anything. And some fatigue, but really because I had tried to push myself too much the day before.

And when we came back I was still ok. I had considered signing up for another half marathon even. But I wasn’t quite ready for that yet.

So I just kept going. Walking and running. And then at the end of July I started getting headaches again. Not all the time. But they came back. And they quickly turned into migraines. And the migraines got worse. And more frequent. And eventually they became constant. I now have a constant migraine. The level of pain just depends on the day.

And I’m dealing with some fatigue and some fuzzy head from time to time too.

Thus is the life of long COVID.

Which brings me back to the the theology of the cross.

Martin Luther wrote about the theology of the cross in his Heidelberg Disputation in April 1518. In article 21, Luther states the following: