In the last few days since my last post, I have traded in the ace bandage for an ankle brace, which is providing much more stability. I am in hopes that this will speed up the healing process, as I am already getting a little stir crazy while I am temporarily unable to move about as freely as I am accustomed to.
With that said, I must share with you my experience in church this morning. I was sitting in the back row with my foot propped up on a chair that had been turned around in front of me. Someone said to me that I should be sitting in front, because with everyone standing, I would not be able to see anything (meaning the worship team and any other doings that took place on the stage). Well, she walked off before I could reply, but my immediate answer was that I was not there to see anyone or anything that was happening in the front. I was here to meet God, and I could do that right where I was sitting.
And sure enough, as I sat there with very little of significance to look at during the worship time, the Lord spoke to me. He told me that part of the reason I have been temporarily grounded with this ankle injury was that He wants to show me some things. He began immediately by increasing my awareness of the worship that was taking place around me, something I rarely notice, since I am usually so closed off myself during times of corporate worship that I don’t see much that goes on around me.
I’m not quite ready to discuss what He has begun to show me, but I am excitedly and actively embracing this season of inactivity, however long or short it may turn out to be, because I know that there is a purpose for it all. He is allowing me see some things from a different perspective right now, and I am to record what I see and observe for a future time.
So until then,
Speak, Lord, Your servant is listening,
watching and waiting …
