Raise your hand if you know what it feels like when a body part you never really gave much thought to before suddenly aches and throbs and burns incessantly. Owww becomes your go-to verbiage. Get up: Owww. Sit down: Owww. Take the dog for a drag: Owww. And that itsy bitsy body tissue the size of a squashed jelly belly becomes ALL you can think about.
Silly girl. You thought you were a big girl, brave and nearly unstoppable. Until the wee wittle boo-boo stopped you. Cold. In your tracks. Owww.
In the indulgent spirit of Woe is Me, I’d love to fill up this entire blog post whining about my achy breaky knee and how miserable one mini-crepe-sized disc (meniscus) can make one. For SIX LONG weeks. Just shoot me.
Instead, I will put on my big girl panties and do my durndest to find some sort of spiritual application to divert and uplift both of us (you, my faithful BBFF, and me) from my pit of despair. Did I mention I’m feeling mostly dead? [Who knows what movie that’s from???]
When I asked Papa God to direct my attention somewhere productive, here’s where He took me:
“But God has made our bodies with many parts, and he has put each part just where he wants it … In fact, some of the parts that seem weakest and least important are really the most necessary … So God has put the body together in such a way that extra honor and care are given to those parts that have less dignity. This makes for harmony among the members … If one part suffers, all the parts suffer with it.” ~1 Corinthians 12: 18-26, NLT
Yup. Isn’t it amazing how one passage you can read a hundred times suddenly jumps out and bites you the hundred-and-first? So very true that some body parts that seem weakest and least important turn out to be the most necessary. My tiny knee disc has never received any dignity or honor or accolades. Not even one award. I’ve just always expected it to be there and do its job.
But when it’s not able to do its job, THEN I most assuredly notice. Owww.
So I’ve decided to make a list of unheralded body parts that I’m thankful for. I hereby praise Papa God for an ingenious body composed of interdependent parts and the lovely harmony among even among its lowliest and oft-overlooked members: pinkie toenails, digestive juices, teeth that don’t ache, eyelashes (although age seems to be thinning these as other body parts thicken), ligaments that hold every single joint together, knuckles, mucus, pulleys that keep finger flexor tendons from bowstringing and provide the ability for precise dexterity, throat hangy balls, liver enzymes, ear wax, red blood cells …
Say, won’t you join me in adding a few of your own to the list and praising Papa God with me for the least of these, my sistern?
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I’m praising God for my colon, which will be undergoing a colonoscopy ? in two days!!
Yikes! I’ll join you in praise for a clean, perfectly operating colon, my friend. And I’ll pray that the procedure will be short and short (I’m not sure those can ever be sweet).
Deb, you are amazing. Even with yourachy breaks knee, you are so humorous. Keep it up to help you through these weeks of recovery. Hope and pray you recover sooner than expected.
Thanks, Barb! Despite my whining, I think I’m healing pretty well. Just wish it would be a quicker process.
Hi Debora. I am TOO blessed to feel stressed even when the Boo Boos come! Thanks for being so encouraging and I wish you good health always!
Blessings!
CONNIE
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Oops! My phrase wasn’t exactly right. Debora, “I feel too blessed to be stressed!”
Thanks for this chance to have our January brightened!
Your phrase was just right, Connie! Thanks for playing. Please pm me your mailing address and a copy of Too Blessed to be Stressed: 3-Minute Devotions will be winging its way to you!
Hi Debbie:
Sorry to hear your knee news…doesn’t sound like much fun even with your perfectly positive attitude! Hope you are up and running full speed, which for you means warp, in know time. Love reading your newsletters, and love you too!
Thanks so much, Martha! Love you bunches!
Deb,
Praying for you and your recovery!! Oh how the pain reminds us to slow down, just a little bit! Take it easy and keep up your upbeat spirit and you will be out on the courts in no time, hitting those tennis balls!!
You know me too well, my BFF! Just this morning I was contemplating trying to hit tennis balls from a ball machine without putting weight on my leg. Ha!
“I feel too blessed to be stressed!”
Woohoo, Laura! You’re my second winner! The 3-Minute Devo in myhand has your name on it. Would you mind pm’ing me your mailing address? Congrats!
Laura, I’ve got a copy of Too Blessed to be Stressed: 3 Minute Devotions for Women here just waiting for your address; please private message me as soon as you can and I’ll get it in the mail. Congrats!
I feel too blessed to be stressed over dry skin, cracking knuckles, pretty ankles, and other small seemingly insignificant parts. “Mostly dead” … from “Princess Bride”. 😉 Prayers for your knee to heal quickly!
Blessings!
Kelly
And you’re winner #3, Kelly! (Wish I had pretty ankles to feel blessed about!) Please pm me your mailing address and your TBTBS: 3-Minute Devo will soon be on its way. Thanks for playing and congrats!