Recovery - Day 6

My knee is beginning to feel a little better. My gimpy limp is settling down a bit. However, I'm still moving along like a turtle. I'm becoming braver doing stairs too. I'm not favoring my right leg as much or using my arms on the rails as much and I'm not doing one step at a time anymore. Yep, that's how my post-op progress is going!

On a spiritual note, I read some great stuff out of a little old book entitled, In His Steps, by J.R. Miller. The chapter title was, Growing in One's Place: Providence and it speaks the same message as did the quote by Samuel Rutherford that I mentioned in my previous blog. Anyway, here is some of what I read:

Many people imagine that they could live very much better if their circumstances were different. In their failure to live a noble and worthy life they find comfort in laying the blame on some infelicity or hardness in their lot.

This is very foolish. For one thing, it does no good. Blaming circumstances will not change them. After all, they are our circumstances, and we must live out our life in the midst of them. Besides, God in his providence has put us just where we find ourselves, and unless we claim to be wiser than God, we must conclude that we are in the right place--at least, that it is quite possible for us to live a true Christian life where we are.

God does not choose for us the place where we can have the most pleasant time, with the least friction and the fewest weights and encumbrances. Life on the earth is a school, and He puts us where we shall receive the best training. The easier place might be more comfortable, but the harder place does the more for us--makes the more out of us.

When I think about my present circumstances I realize that things could be so much worse. I have to keep things in perspective. But since these are circumstances I wouldn't have chosen for myself, for I would have chosen simpler and easier ones, it is the harder place for me and will hopefully prove what I have just written profitable and thus do more for me and make more out of me. At least, this is my hope and prayer.