Day #150 in A Year of Thanks:
I’m thankful I’m alive and that I can walk.

Earlier today, while I was outside for a few minutes, I took a walk around the side of the house. I accidentally tripped into one of the many holes that our lovely neighborhood squirrels love to dig, and I landed right on my bad knee. This was the knee that surgeons temporarily implanted a rod through as part of a weight-and-pulley system known as traction when I had my crushed hip injury from a car accident in 1997. Thankfully, the fall I had today was a soft blow, though it still hurt my knee. I’ve gone all evening without painkillers, but the knee is aching in its typical arthritic dull achiness.

I’m slightly annoyed with it, so I’ll take something for it because I know it’s going to keep me up all night if I don’t, but I can’t help but think back on that car accident, how I was in a body cast for three months, and that I even made it through with the ability to walk, dance, jump, and run. From what I understand, most cases of an individual being run over by a vehicle end up being fatal, and if the car had run over any other part of my body, that may have also been true for me, too. Tears of appreciation are in my eyes as I type this, for I give all credit and glory to God for keeping me alive and restoring my ability to walk. I wouldn’t be where I am today without Him. Thank You, Abba, for always being there for me and carrying me through every storm.

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