(3.5 min read) Start with the imagery of a Bassett hound. What do you see? You walk by and there, a dog’s nose stuck to the ground sniffing and sniffing and sniffing. Right? Some may shake their head and walk away. Some may not even notice that the hound is literally glued to the ground. But how many marvel at the keen sense of smell this dog possesses?? How about the patience and the methodical ways about the Bassett hound; searching and searching and searching! Do you marvel?

Should one marvel, wonder, be in awe?                

But how much can you admire about a Bassett hound sniffing??

How about your body working like a Bassett hound!? Should you marvel at your body? Especially in the beginning of 2021 with literally the world, as in the Globe, the Earth, is vaccinating or intending to vaccinate some 7 Billion people!!  Just listen to this sentence……. Vaccinate some 7 Billion people!!

You take this tiny injection (0.02 oz / 0.5 mL) into your arm,
                into a muscle not even into your blood stream

Your blood circulating inside its vessels through that muscle
                                thanks to the technology of said vaccine
                                                It starts to get absorbed into your blood stream
                                                   (In recognition of Katalin Karikó’s efforts in mRNA technology)

Now comes the Bassett hounds of your immune system
                                called lymphocytes, there are several types,
                                                they are simply specialized White Blood Cells
                                                                made by your immune system to DEFEND you

As we’ve all learned, a virus is an antigen, typically a protein
                                it is a foreign object to your body and will take over your cells

A virus replicates oh so very quickly as in the millions
                                it forms LITERALLY an army of millions and millions

Our Bassett hounds are not lollygagging around singing kumbaya
                                they must be constantly sniffing around, CONSTANTLY
                                                friend or foe…….. friend or foe…… friend or foe

You know how in American Football there are ‘Special teams’? Same with our Immune System!
                                a virus a foreign body an antigen has to have a Special Team
                                                antibody to counter-attack it

So the Bassett hounds of your body continue to sniff and sniff and sniff……
                                Just in case, sniff and sniff and sniff

Then the Basset hound howls screams cries out ever so loudly
                                “Give me more lymphocytes much more”
                                                Let’s make those antibodies to ward off this invasion

Immune System hollers back, “Give me a minute….. gotta figure out a Special Team for this one!”

And the Bassett hound replies as it howls and howls, “I ain’t got time…… I ain’t got time…..
                                this is a real bad one…. I ain’t got time”

Are you marveling yet as to what is happening in your body!?

Is this worth appreciating and in actuality acknowledging how wonderfully and fearfully you are made??

The vaccine simply prepares the Special Teams, prepares an army, the antibodies, within you to ward off that menace of a virus. So if and when it attacks, your Special Teams, already practiced this one single play, will catch the punt on the one yard line and take it all the way down the field for a touch down. Can you see them cheering, jumping, hollering, smiling. “We’ve prepared well didn’t we!’”

“I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
                Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”

Oh how often “I know it full well” but I am not in awe of it, I am not amazed by it, I am not astounded by it, I am not astonished by Your works my Lord and my Creator. This vaccine and how it works in my body is nothing but a small reminder that I need to seek what I already know about my body, what I already know about the environment, the Earth, the Space around us, and use every single one of these, every chance I get in every dat of my life, to in actuality, like for real, be in awe like be really in awe and marvel at Your Creation my Lord. Thank You for who You are. I love You. Amen.