The Perfect Blow: A Diamond Story, and Our Injuries
I read a story this week that’s helping me see my Achilles rupture in a (bright) new light.
I want to share it with you.
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Suffering Bears Gifts: 5 Lessons of One-legged Days
“Suffering always comes bearing a gift.”
In the nine days, since my Achilles repair surgery, I’ve received too many gifts to count.
But the biggest one is this.
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Sit Loose: How Wounds Set Us Free
For one who walks, or runs, morning, noon and evening; who cancelled three “walk & talk” dates on the way to the ER; and who had just begun High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)—including sunrise bursts on the Sanibel beach last week—months on crutches and knee scooters are a shaking loose.
They are a real test of my mettle. They are a fire and a flood and a prising free.
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What’s So Maundy About Thursday?
My right foot is in a cast this Maundy Thursday. To wash it would be a minor disaster. Not so when Jesus washed those 24 feet 2000 years ago.
That was vulnerable, humble love from the very One through whom those feet were formed.
