Billy Coffey
Billy Coffey

Taking a Tumble

March 8, 2010  

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Though saved by grace, I’m far from graceful. I’ve taken my share of falls in my thirty-seven years, ones that required casts or stitches or kisses from my mother (and in once instance all three). I’ve gotten better at staying on my feet, though. In fact, I figure I went a good fifteen years or so without tripping or falling over anything. For the most part.

 
But then came a couple weeks ago, a very dark Monday morning, and an incident that can best be described as ice + snow – coffee = ouch.
 
Thankfully, the damage wasn’t too severe. Not so thankfully, I was confined to the living room for most of the next week. But it wasn’t all bad. I had plenty of time to think over my predicament and what I was going to do to get over it. And what I found will, I’m hoping, be just as useful to you when recovering from a tumble as it was to me.
 
Follow me over to katdish’s blog. And do me a favor — pray with me that all this snow melts soon.

 

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  • http://building-his-body.blogspot.com/ Anne Lang Bundy

    I think I’ll agree that to not feel is worse than hurt. Pain has a purifying quality to it. It sharpens he edges on life and makes clear what might otherwise go unnoticed. Pain forces one to look at whatever inflicts pain.

    But numbness–numbness feels like death. If nothing else, pain makes one know what it is to be alive.

  • http://www.thechurchofnopeople.com Matt @ The Church of No People

    I hope your snow melts soon. We’re living it up here in Missouri with 60 degree weather. Well, it’s more like 50, but it feels like 60. I’m sure you’ll be thawing out soon.

  • http://katshappyathome.blogspot.com Kathy

    I just got done reading it…again, I hope you’re healing well :)

  • http://www.redletterbelievers.blogspot.com David @ Red Letter Believers.com

    I have fallen…and fallen hard.
    Sometimes I have escaped with just a scrape.
    Othertimes, it was more serious.

    And when I slip and fall on the ice, the first thing I do is look around to see who else saw me. Then I check my own status.

    that kind of pride keeps getting me into trouble

    David, Red Letter Believers, http://www.redletterbelievers.com, “Salt and Light”

  • http://redorgray.com ELK

    so sorry you took a tumble …it must have been the -coffee in the equation

    take care..