Good gracious, it's been a minute since I last posted! I'm sure many of you are just dying to know what became of my rose water from my previous post. Well, I, in fact, called it: it sat there for about two weeks until Hubs finally persuaded me to toss it. *Sigh*. But I do appreciate those of you who gave me suggestions and links about what I could have done with it had it survived! There's always next time... ;)
Speaking of "next times", the next time I go work out at the gym, I won't be doing squats. Yeah, rose water to squats. That's my segue. Anyway, Hubs has been an excellent trainer in my workout regime these last few weeks that we've been hitting the gym together...but him encouraging me to try some squats was just a little too much. First of all, I apparently have absolutely zero balance. As I attempted to do a proper squat, I kept slowly tipping backwards onto my heels, pushing my toes back toward the floor to no avail. Second, my knees just can't handle it. Yep, I'm one of those people. My knees crack and pop like a bowl of Rice Krispies sometimes at the slightest bend. I walked home from the gym that day with a pain shooting through my right knee...and possibly a bruised tailbone from slipping off the exercise ball mid-crunch...but I'll leave that one alone...
At home, I sat with ice on my knee while drinking my green smoothie and watching "Nashville" from the previous week. And I started thinking about how loathsome and tiresome a knee pain is...or any pain for that matter. How often have we experienced the ache of an over-worked knee, a burn from an stove coil or curling iron, a virus that invades our immune system and runs us over like a semi-truck? How about something simple as a splinter in the thumb or the connection of the door frame with our "funny bone" (sidenote: I wanna know who came up with that name. Not funny AT ALL, Misinformed Elbow-Nicknamer)? What about the searing emotional pain we feel from losing a loved one to cancer or a car accident? The loss of a job, the argument with a friend. Pain comes in many forms and facets. And whether it's big or little, pain affects us all. The truth of the matter is that in this life, on this earth there...will...be...pain. It's not going to end, and it's not going to get better. We are a broken, fallen, imperfect people living in a broken, fallen, imperfect world. But at the risk of me sounding like Debbie Downer herself, let me give you some hope. As I sat there thinking about inevitable pain, I thought about another truth...a beautiful truth...
"He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore**, for the former things have passed away. And He who was seated on the throne said, 'Behold, I am making all things new."
What powerful and comforting words for those of us who know Christ as our Savior! Someday God is going to make all things new...a new home for us, new bodies...and there will be no more pain. None. I can't even imagine a life completely without pain. Of any kind. No more sickness, no more broken hearts. But that will be a reality someday. Enduring through pain and heartache now doesn't seem as horrible when you look at it in light of eternity. Sure, it's not fun...at all...right now. But knowing what's ahead makes it a little more bearable.
God never promised us life would be sunshine and roses (or daisies, if you happen to love those...which I do), we forfeited that possibility at the Fall, but He promises us His love, faithfulness, holiness, protection, and provision...we just need to trust Him and endure. And someday, when He makes all things new, we'll know it was all worth it.
**emphasis added by author
[Scripture taken from Revelation 21:4-5a]
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