Embracing My Scars

A personal piece that I wrote for Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month. Click the link below:


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Stay Away From the Tree Branches

Image
As I was driving home today, I saw cows out to pasture. That is not an unusual thing for me to see on my way home since there are many large, green, and fenced-in fields. What struck me today though, was a cow that was straining against the barbed wire to try to reach the unreachable on the other side of the fence. But he wasn't going for greener grass. No. He was trying to get a taste of a dead tree limb. I realized as I watched this cow that this is how we often behave in life. God has given us boundaries, so to speak, that are clear in His Word, just like the cows' masters give them the boundary of the fence. He is not a power-hungry ruler who gives us boundaries because He wants us to suffer. No, rather, His Word reminds us of His love and shows us how to strive toward being all He has created us to be so that we can be ready for eternity. Just like the cow trying to reach the tree branch, we failable humans so often are reaching for things that we should stay away f...
Read more

A Still Small Voice

Image
I laid wake in the middle of the night. It was 3:00 AM. I couldn’t really tell if I was awake because of a stomachache or from the Coke I drank at dinner. (Probably the Coke, though, because it has kept me awake before.) I just remember feeling at my breaking point. Between everything that’s going on in the world and everything that is going on in my life personally, I have felt pretty stressed lately. Stressed and unsure. Unsure about the future, about life, and sometimes feeling distant from God, but unwilling to give up on hope.  In the quiet of the night I pleaded with God.  “Please Lord, calm my stomach. Help me to sleep. I feel so unworthy of you. But I want to know you more.” And in the quiet of the night, the still small voice came. I knew the thought was not my own, not my inner voice. It came so quickly and suddenly and was like a whisper, a gentle nudging.  “Seek and you will find.” I remember listening to one of our Pastors a few weeks ago remind us that somet...
Read more

Wake Up Call

Image
If there's one thing I've learned over the past few months, it's that if you don't take time to slow down sometimes, sooner or later it could catch up to you. I've learned this all too literally this past summer. At the beginning of July I took a bad fall in the bathroom of our home. I fell in such a way that I ended up hitting the left side of my head on the edge of the bathtub. I felt fine at first, but a few days later I started to have really intense headaches. Probably some of the worst I had ever experienced. They lasted for a few weeks and then went away. I decided to see my doctor just in case. Turns out, the fall had caused a concussion and my doctor diagnosed me with post concussive syndrome in early August. She sent me on my way with a list of things to stay away from for a few weeks. I thought I was in the clear. But a few days after that, the vision in my left eye seemed to change for the worst and I started having tension headaches from the ch...
Read more