Easily Injured Part 1

I am extremely accident prone. To put it bluntly, I am very easily injured. My friends like to joke that they're going to put me in a wheelchair. It's not like I am a wimp or anything, I mean, I've never broken any bones (of my own, that is. I did break my little brother's nose many years back, and my friend's finger last year). It's not as if I am a klutz or anything. I just always happen to end up with sprains and twists, cuts and bruises. After every injury, I think back and try to explain what happened, but I can never recall a specific time, event, or even a day for that matter.

Recently, I sprained my wrist. I think it had something to do with landing on it wrong when I was jumping down into a pushup position during an Insanity workout, but to be completely honest with you, I really can't recall when it started hurting exactly. My wrist has popped in and out over the years (I am a snowboarder, for sure), so I'm used to some kind of pain in my wrist. I just assume this wrist injury is from working out, since that's when I actually noticed the pain. But it could have started days or even weeks ago.

Too often, I'm easily knocked down in my spiritual life. I fall down one notch at a time, letting little things slip  here and there, and when I realize how far I fell, I have no idea how it happened. The devil knows that he can bring us down using small things. We should always be on our guard and ever keep our standards high. Let us be faithful in the little things, so that we can learn to be faithful when big things come our way.

Hope vs Optimism

"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certaintly that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." --Vaclav Havel

Simple, But Strong

I was really blessed by this poem that a friend of mine wrote:

http://dglatts.blogspot.ca/2012/04/simple-but-strong-one-day-i.html

I just thought I'd share it with you.

BY YOUR SIDE

Why are you striving these days

Why are you trying to earn grace
Why are you crying
Let me lift up your face
Just don't turn away

Why are you looking for love
Why are you still searching as if I'm not enough
To where will you go child
Tell me where will you run
To where will you run

And I'll be by your side
Wherever you fall
In the dead of night
Whenever you call
Please don't fight
These hands that are holding you
My hands are holding you

Look at these hands and my side
They swallowed the grave on that night
When I drank the world's sin
So I could carry you in
And give you life
I want to give you life

~Tenth Avenue North

MEANING