"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like." -Lemony Snicket
It was only a simple choice. A pogo stick just calling my name.
A split second decision.
I found myself flat on my back, the wind momentarily knocked out of me.
I try forcing a laugh.
Minutes later my body is going into shock: chills, clamminess, a rush of pain.
Simple and seemingly pointless decisions can sometimes alter the course of your life.
At least, it can alter the course of your immediate life.
The alterations can sometimes happen for the better... but there may be painful side effects.
Attempting to ride a pogo stick and landing on your tailbone may be a cheesy example.
But it quite literally makes you slow down.
You walk behind the cute old ladies in the grocery store instead of passing them.
Your daily decisions are based on whether or not it is too painful to bend over or if it's too far to walk. Sometimes you sit and imagine what it would be like to have no stiffness in your neck.
But sometimes... sometimes these little painful incidents are reminders. Reminders that God can work ALL things for our good.
It's easy to breeze through life hoping good things will happen all the time.
It's harder to walk slowly and somehow understand that pain always has a purpose.
I want healing, I want wholeness.
But if I am to hobble around in pain for a few weeks, then I want it to be a pain that makes me want Him more.
If I am granted healing and a release from pain, then I want it to be a healing that makes me want Him more.
It's a matter of perspective, really.
It's a daily choice- and today I choose to live dependent on Him.
{In the meantime, pogo sticks are no longer on my list of things-to-do}
:)
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