Watch out, I'm on steroids now!

I just finished one round of treatment with steroids for my hearing and it seems to help some. Maybe I'll continue improving for a while, but I'm kinda scared about the side effects. There are lots of them and I can definitelly feel changes in my body. I've taken different kinds of medication before, but I've never taken something that affected me this much... it's almost like I'm a different person. My body feels different... even my muscles feel like they're growing without me exercising them or maybe it's water retention? or just fat? But my joints actually feel different. It is supposed to cause bone loss, and even my teeth feel like they've actually worn down since starting this. And I don't know if this is totally to blame on the medication, though I think it is, I seem to have a pretty short fuse these days. On Easter Sunday in the morning I forgot to take my medication and on the way to church I had the nastiest temper that blew up into arguing about every little thing... I felt terrible sitting up there playing the piano while in my mind I just felt like wanting to break everybody's neck. And then as I was listening to the sermon, I realized all of the sudden that I had calmed down and I didn't feel that way anymore. So it must have had to do with some kind of withdrawal symptoms caused by not taking my meds at the right time.Oh and what set me off on Sunday morning was when I walked into church at 8:30 (we go early for practice) and right there in front of the door there's this huge inflatable football that I guess was part of some display trying to promote VBS this summer. Well maybe it's not such a big deal, but to me that was very offensive at that point. I was expecting to walk into church and see easter lillies or a cross or something about the ressurection, instead this stupid footbal greets me. It just made me think "Here's Christ dying on a cross for us, and we're so shallow that we're preoccupied with a dumb football game." Now I realize my reaction was probably a bit extreme, but I still don't think the timing was right for that, and in fact I don't think I want my kids to go to a Vacation Bible School where they hear more about football than about Christ. I think this points to how shallow this generation has become, and as I'm reading through 2Chronicles, 2 Kings, Isaiah and Hoseah at the moment, I can't help but notice the similarities between the way Israel/Judah acted in those days and the way the church tries so hard to walk with one foot on the narrow path and one foot in the world.