My Motorcycle Injuries

A short time before the accident I bought a couple of pairs of identical work boots on a buy one, get one half-off sale. They were actually my second and third pairs of the same boots. I know that it makes me sound a little weird, but I used that particular brand of boots every weekday for the sake of maintenance work at the church property and I really liked them. I was wearing the original pair when I got into the motorcycle accident, and the rescue workers must have cut them off because I never got them back. I tried to wear a pair of the new ones to work a few times about a year after the accident, but they felt so heavy and cumbersom on my bad leg that I switched to sneakers. I don’t do as much maintenance work at the church anymore, so no biggie, but I remember thinking that I was stuck with these two pairs of new work boots because I would never have any use for them again. Yeah, that's them. The boots still feel a bit heavy on my one leg, but I do wear them occasionally. I ...

Christmas will be here in just under a week. This is always a very busy time of the year for me and my family. Things get a little hectic and demanding between ministry events, family activities and obligations, and our home in general. It’s been a bit of a ride, but I know that everything will work out well in the end. It’s a little odd how we take such a wonderful event in spiritual history and turn it into such a time of personal commotiion. Human nature, I guess. My body has been telling me that it doesn’t appreciate all of the holiday activity, but I don’t really have the privilege of listening to it right now. I have far too much to do between today and next Wednesday. I’m thinking of taking a break more toward the weekend after Christmas, but I’ll have to wait and see what everyone needs from me before I lay me down to rest. I don’t really know why exactly, but my mind keeps drifting back to where I was at this time six years ago. I keep seeing mental pictures of the things that...

Sometimes light shows up in the strangest of dark places. Taking care of my 10 month old niece during the workweek has become a full-time job. It takes up an enormous amount of my time and energy, regardless of my body’s mood for the day. I start setting things up for her arrival around 6:45 in the morning for an 8 o’clock drop-off, and she usually gets picked up between 4:45 and 5:30 in the afternoon. I sometimes have to fight the fatigue for scattered hours throughout the day. In the end it’s the energy that I often don’t really have within me to give. I often have to dig deep inside of myself to find the things that are required for taking care of a baby all day long. It wears me down sometimes in ways that leave me wishing that I could just lie down and not wake back up…ever. That’s the dark place. Over time taking care of the baby has taught me that I can do just about anything that I need to do within the course of a given day. Taking care of a young baby will do that to you. No ...