Count Your Blessings Month
“Therefore we do not lose heart.
Though outwardly we are wasting away,
yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.”
2 Corinthians 4:16
Each day we are relatively healthy and pain free is a
blessing. Because I have some arthritis and fibromyalgia, I notice changes in
the weather. I have learned to take these conditions in stride.
All I have to do when I notice some inflammation is remember
my Sunday school teacher. Several years ago, he had an accident at his place of
business. He came through that event without losing his right leg but he
carries metal pins and rods down its full length. His wife told me one of his
doctors said he’d “become very good at forecasting the weather.”
One of my friends is a quadriplegic. When I worked my last
job, each morning I’d pass his street and say a prayer for him and his mother.
One fall the muscles in my legs were inflamed so much I actually hurt from hips
to ankles. This particular morning, I prayed my usual sentence prayer for them
as I went past. All of a sudden, my eyes filled up; I could barely see. Here I
was feeling sorry for myself because of some pain when neither one of them ever
complained about anything.
I view each day as a blessing from God. If I have a problem,
I know He will help me through it. If I receive a blessing, I try to thank Him
for that day and that special blessing.
Great reminder, Cecelia. My sister is a walking testament to me of how fragile life is. Her journey of surviving cancer, a bone marrow transplant, and a heart transplant reminds me that each day is a gift.
ReplyDeleteSarah:
DeleteThank you for visiting me. We don't have to look very far for those reminders, do we? Our son had surgery when he was a few hours old and then on average of every other year until he was 13. Because of our going through that I find I have little to complain about.