A friend of mine had a little problem the other day. Today, she doesn’t. Two weeks ago, she slipped while walking some stairs and ended up in hospital where x-rays were taken, confirming a break near her ankle. Sporting a new cast, she started using crutches and had other people driving her around in her own car (very much like I did when my knee was damaged).
A short while later she had another slip and thankfully didn’t break anything but the slip happened close to some water and she fell in. Since casts are not meant to get wet, it had to come off.
Three days after the cast was put on, she was back to see a doctor who would tell her if she needed surgery to fix the break properly. She went in with her sister and as they walked in, the doctor asked which one was the patient. He was busy looking at the x-ray and saying that it was definitely a bad break; giving the name and location of the break. After figuring out which girl had the break, he examined her leg and where there should have been pain, there was none; where there should have been a broken bone, there was a completely healthy bone. He looked at the X-ray again and asked her when it had been taken (I guess the fine print on the X-ray was too small or something so he didn’t just read the date on there) and upon realizing the bone was broken only three days earlier, was left speechless – giving her the chance to declare to him that it was simply a miracle.
She had a three hour dance class the next day and four days after the break was back to functioning completely normally with even the bruising around the break gone.
Thank God that he still does miracles today!
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Random Ramblings
Welcome back! I got an email from someone commenting on me disappearing from the face of the earth… well, the email wasn’t that far off.
I spent last week helping out at the women’s conference where I took on the same role as I did for Hillsong Conference last July. We had somewhere around 14,000 women out this year (my guess only) and as every time before, it impacted many lives. I had a couple of interesting situations; like two women who tried to convince me that I should let one of their friends into the resource center when it was closed – they used the argument that she was pregnant and I had no idea what it’s like to be pregnant (REALLY??? What gave that away? I’m sure it wasn’t the facial hair J) All in all, it was a good week. I struggled a bit with the physical side of things because my knee has not yet fully recovered from surgery in October and spending 14 hours a day on my feet while walking 20km on a concrete floor can be hard on a bad knee. One day was enough that I couldn’t walk up a flight of stairs without using the handrail to support my weight; but that too is settling back into recovery mode again. A few weeks ago, I thought my girlfriend might make the trip to conference, but she couldn’t get enough time away and I was going to be really busy so we wouldn’t see each other much anyways so we decided to wait for now. So after a busy week, I now have two days off to recuperate and clean house before starting back to classes on Wednesday. My connect group meets again tonight so I also need to get a study ready for that…and so goes the life of Larry.
Before I leave you again, I’ll just mention one more thing. I have some big decisions to make in the next couple of months. I’ve been asked to take on a much larger leadership role within one age group here at church but some of that leadership depends on me staying here for another year. So I have an incredible opportunity here in Australia for another year, but I know great things await me at home in Canada as well. Please pray for wisdom in the decisions I need to make.
I spent last week helping out at the women’s conference where I took on the same role as I did for Hillsong Conference last July. We had somewhere around 14,000 women out this year (my guess only) and as every time before, it impacted many lives. I had a couple of interesting situations; like two women who tried to convince me that I should let one of their friends into the resource center when it was closed – they used the argument that she was pregnant and I had no idea what it’s like to be pregnant (REALLY??? What gave that away? I’m sure it wasn’t the facial hair J) All in all, it was a good week. I struggled a bit with the physical side of things because my knee has not yet fully recovered from surgery in October and spending 14 hours a day on my feet while walking 20km on a concrete floor can be hard on a bad knee. One day was enough that I couldn’t walk up a flight of stairs without using the handrail to support my weight; but that too is settling back into recovery mode again. A few weeks ago, I thought my girlfriend might make the trip to conference, but she couldn’t get enough time away and I was going to be really busy so we wouldn’t see each other much anyways so we decided to wait for now. So after a busy week, I now have two days off to recuperate and clean house before starting back to classes on Wednesday. My connect group meets again tonight so I also need to get a study ready for that…and so goes the life of Larry.
Before I leave you again, I’ll just mention one more thing. I have some big decisions to make in the next couple of months. I’ve been asked to take on a much larger leadership role within one age group here at church but some of that leadership depends on me staying here for another year. So I have an incredible opportunity here in Australia for another year, but I know great things await me at home in Canada as well. Please pray for wisdom in the decisions I need to make.
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