While playing football with some Seniors at the High School on Thursday I broke my leg. The leg has two bones running down the inside, the Fibula and the Tibia. Well, I had a meeting with the concrete at full speed and my fibula was the weakest link.
As I lay in the sick bay (infirmary) at the High School I felt these strange feelings of immense gratitude and thanks to God all over me. I knew that what was happening to me was actually very good, and that God was going to use this whole experience in a very good way. Despite the pain I was feeling physically at the time, I must say I had a tremendous sense of well being in every other way. When I phoned my wife to tell her that “I might have broken my leg,” she thought it sounded very strange coming from someone who sounded so “normal.”
The ambulance came to take me away (my first time in an ambulance) and they gave me some penthrox for the pain. This was a strange green tube that you suck on and it made me go very whoozy. I preferred the pain to the feelings that it gave me, and I had a lot of trouble being able to think and concentrate after sucking on that.
At the hospital I had X-Ray’s taken (shown above) which proved that my fibula was cracked all the way through. So I have had to have my leg set in a “back-slab” which is a caste which only coves the back of the leg and the front is all covered with multiple layers of wrapping. This is to help manage swelling in the leg. My beautiful lovely wife agreed to paint my cast for me. I joked that if I walked through grass I might lose my leg.
God has been very faithful and gracious to us in all the things that have happened in our lives. There has never been a moment where we can accuse God of any wrong doing. Even when “bad things” take place, there is always something good that comes out of it, and there is a promise in the scriptures that confirm this to us. “For I know that all things work together for the good of those that love God, and are called according to His purpose.” If you love Christ and are willing to obey Him, no matter what happens to you, there will be good come from it.
Remember Christ who died on the cross for our sins – it was undoubtedly the very best thing that has ever happened. However in that moment, a bystander looking up at a dying man would not have been able to understand that. So in the same way, when things happen that we don’t understand – TRUST GOD. Good things are taking place.
