Biggest Ooftah of 2014 So Far

Kelsey after knee injuryOoftah.
I mean, really…Big Time Ooftah.

It’s a torn ACL, torn MCL, multiple tears in the meniscus, a femur impaction fracture, and a bruised tibia.

You could say that her knee is really messed up.
You could also say that when my niece, Kelsey, plays basketball, she gives it everything she’s got.

Kelsey – the athlete who loves playing basketball, the rhythm-finder who loves to dance and choreograph, the high school senior who is relishing each fun moment with her school buds – is finding her way through the Minnesota ice and snow with a large brace around her leg, crutches keeping her steady, and wearing a smile that just doesn’t end.

You can probably imagine the pain that showed up…and aren’t we grateful for morphine.
Morphine is one of those drugs that while it dulls the sharpness of the “make it stop now” lightning bolts of pain that surge through your body, it also brings you to a mental happy place that can act like truth serum.

When Kelsey started to feel some morphine relief in the emergency room, she went to her relaxed place of truth and whispered…
God has a plan.

{I wish I could be so faith-filled when I’m simply experiencing burning thighs from 45 minutes on the treadmill. My relaxed place of truth would probably have had some whining involved.}

My knee isn’t a mangled mess, but life has had its share of pain.

You too?

Muscles that are strained and stretched from carrying worry loads we aren’t designed to carry.  Bruised feelings from misunderstandings and words that hurt.  Fractured relationships because we had to be right and it’s not fair that the other person can say those things and get away with it. A full-body weariness that makes getting out of bed a gold-star achievement.

And wouldn’t it be soul-changing, if…
When our life is all mangled and strangled and hanging together by ligaments that only The Great Physician can see and heal…
That we would whisper…
God has a plan.

I’m learning that I can trust this.
Trust that He has a plan.

He doesn’t need time to schedule MRI’s or review X-rays or talk to specialists.  He knows exactly what we need the moment we crumble to the floor or hit the emotional wall or enter that dark place.  And He will meet us…right where we are…and bring us to a place of Healing. Peace. Comfort.
A place better than the one we left.

His love holds my heart together…
His grace allows me to lift my head…
His presence fills me with peace…
His promises give me hope for a better day.

He lifts my crumpled body, infuses my heart, mind, emotions, and soul with his healing touch, and tells me…

I have a plan.  Just for you.

Just wait and see…

He [God] heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.  (Psalm 147:3)

I am the Lord, who heals you… (Exodus 15:26)

 

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Comments

  1. This is so beautiful. Love, Grace, Presence, Promises….I will hold those phrases in my heart. Thank you!

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