Two Years

Facebook randomly picks old status posts to show you. Right now it is trending 2009 on my profile. My status on this day two years ago was...Well, the brace is off, and I sure am a lot weaker than I remember. 12 weeks in a back brace may have allowed my back to heal and strengthen, but the rest of the muscles in my torso went to mush....I am relieved to have it off though.

The picture here is of me in that brace at Stallworth Rehab Hospital. In reality 2 years is not a long time, but it feels like a lifetime since that long summer. Days like today, with these reminders, I am extremely thankful for many things. I am thankful for my health. I still have many aches and pains, especially when the weather changes but overall I am in good shape. I still remember many of those people who I rehabbed beside that were not going to get much better. Puts things in perspective.

I am thankful for my friends and family that walked along side Olsa and I as I healed. Those who made things, wrote things, and were just present, all of this I am thankful for today. I am most thankful for my wife and her help and constant care during that time. Why things happen will or may always be a mystery. And I guess I could certainly question why that tree fell at that moment and changed four lives forever, but I know the end result. The end result is that in the midst of the bad things in life God was and is glorified.