Many of you have asked how David is doing, so I thought I’d write a quick update.
First of all, we want to thank you for all of your prayers! We can’t even begin to tell you how grateful we are for your prayers, words of encouragement, and kind gestures that have supported our family over the past month.
I’m happy to be able to say that David is back on his feet, quite literally.
The second skin graft “took,” which means the surgery was successful. It’s still pretty fragile, so he will need to be careful for a few more weeks; but right now, things look good.
We are celebrating!
We’re celebrating because the surgery went well, and for David’s recovery.
We’re celebrating because David is up and walking again, and even driving and working on projects around the yard.
We’re celebrating because we aren’t “prisoners” of our own home anymore — we can get out and about again. David, more importantly, isn’t stuck in his recliner with his leg elevated anymore.
We’re celebrating because when we were in recovery mode, we were able to catch up some necessary things around our home. Specifically, all the piles.
Some of you may remember my bathtub. Those of you who are unfamiliar with that story, let me bring you up to speed:
In December of 2014, we hosted a Holiday Boutique at our home. At least a dozen local vendors set up to sell their handcrafted items for a craft sale type affair. In order to make space for everyone, we had to move furniture out of our home, and we had to stash the piles of paperwork and stuff that had collected on the countertops and other flat surfaces of our home (you know, the chairs, the counters, the tables…).
I stashed these items in our master bathtub, because it was one of the only spaces in our home that would be off-limits to the shoppers.
Sad to say, SIXTEEN months later, the tub was still full of these items. I’m an out-of-sight-out-of-mind kind of gal.
So another thing we are celebrating today is the fact that THE BATHRUB IS EMPTY!
While we were “trapped” at home the past month, we sorted through the mountains of junk and paperwork and our home is much less cluttered. We just had to slow down long enough to tackle some of these things. We also watched a number of awful Netflix movies, read a bunch of books, and visited with some friends and family members. I planted some pansies. And I’m happy to report, the last of the Christmas decorations are even put away!
We had been so crazy busy that we had lost sight of how to slow down.
The past month has been a true blessing in many ways. We’re more rested than we’ve been for months. The flat surfaces in our home are cleared for the first time in months. We’ve been forced to slow down and recapture the important things in life. I’m reading my Bible daily, which I had slipped away from for a while. We’ve been more diligent about getting together with friends.
So, while I wouldn’t recommend going to the extreme measures of having a surgery in order to slow down, I do suggest that we all find ways to stop the crazies before God slows us down with more extreme measures.
Tell me about a time that you’ve been forced to slow down, simply because you couldn’t figure out how. What did you learn?
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