Today I'm thankful for...

Today I am thankful for a Sprained Ankle. Yep, I really am!

I've been trying to figure out why I got a sprained ankle...besides that fact that I'm clumsy at times. I've really been thinking about what God wanted me to see through this.

I sprained my ankle on Sunday night. And if you can believe it, it is my FIRST EVER sprained ankle. Yep...27 years and now I get one. Strange, yes! But I'm also thankful. Wow, are they painful and according to my therapist friend, mine wasn't even that bad! O boy, I'd hate to have one worse than this. So I was moving some of our stuff downstairs from when we moved into our house. I was going down the stairs and I had thought I was on the last step, but I wasn't, there was still one more to go. So i fell, and my ankle went under me and bent outward. I screamed it was immediate pain and I knew it just wasn't my normal fall I seem to take at least once a week. :) My sweet husband came immediately and helped me figure out what was wrong amongst me crying. He said it was probably just a sprain. HA just a sprain. OK...apparently no big deal.

We hopped upstairs and I sat down and he got me some ice. My activities for the night were now over with. :( I don't know what was worse, the pain or the super cold ice on it.

The next day, yesterday, I went to Spine & Sport were I use to work and where I have some great friends that would be able to look at it with no problems. So they did and that is when they said it wasn't that bad and was just a lower ankle sprain, would be better in 1-2 weeks. They wrapped it up and off I went. I kept ice on it for the rest of the day.

And that is when I sat and pondered about this. Why did it happen? Was God telling me to rest more. ? I thought I already was resting. I'm actually still not even sure what this all happen for. I do know one thing...it made me forever grateful for the health I have!

I know a sprained ankle isn't all that bad, it cold be worse. But it still makes you use your body differently. You have to adjust and do things different for a few days until that part of your body heals. I find it interested how much we take our life and our body and our functions for granted. You don't realize how much you rely on a part of your body or how much you use it, until it HURTS to use it and you can't.

I was reading an article today too, that was about the college student who had just gotten the flesh eating disease or something like that and had lost a leg and both of her hands. If that was me, I would be devastated. Her entire attitude was how she felt blessed! I was like, "really?" I"m thankful that someone so young can have such a good attitude for the future. I'm sure there have been points where she was disappointed, and took her time to get to the attitude she has now. I think we all can be that way. At first, when I hurt my ankle, I was a wreak. I was broken hearted that now I wouldn't be able to workout for a week and do my normal work-out routine, let alone even go for a simple walk! I was broken hearted. And the next day I learned that this was actually a blessing. I'm still not sure how, but I find it a blessed that I'm not able to workout. Again, not sure how...but I'm trying to find the positive in it.

But I do know one thing...I'm THANKFUL that I have legs, arms, hair, eyes, ears, toes, feet, skin, hearing, taste, hands, fingers and the list could go on forever about every part of my body. I'm thank that God created us how He did and that when we hurt ourselves, we can adjust. Might not be ideal or easy, but we can adjust by God's grace and by His strength.

In just ONE DAY of a sprained ankle, I was able to walk on it! I was told it would be a week or 2 weeks of healing. Sure it hurts still and if I move it just the right way, it send sharp pain, but i can walk on it! Only by God did He heal me like this. I'm thankful that God is healing me and giving me the strength during a sprained ankle. And thankful for a different attitude with it!

Thank you Jesus for what you have created in us and thank you for showing me how much I don't realize it until you can't use it! You are amazing!