Day
10: I am thankful for the abilities I still have and what I can still do
despite the abilities I do not have. I remember waking up in ICU after
my crash. I could only move and feel my neck and head, see, hear, and
think. With my vision, I saw my body laying in a hospital bed, I saw
countless tubes, and I saw the pain but also hope in my parents' eyes.
With my hearing, I heard talk about my care
from here on out and ultimately the devastating words that I was in a
car accident and am now paralyzed. The harsh truth became more real as
all my (then) present and future hopes and desires seemed to at once
slip from my grasp. All I could do was cry but the more I did, the
harder it was for me to breathe.
I know what it's like to lose
everything, even more than the little I've shared, but it is in that
loss that I learned how incredibly blessed I still am and how obliviously
blessed we as a people are. What a blessing to be able to walk, move,
feel, see, hear, speak, and think. What a blessing to be able to hop out
of bed in the morning, take a shower, and work. Or to be able to go to
the bathroom on your own. We are so blessed yet don't realize it. We
complain and aren't satisfied with what we have while there are millions
of people thirsting for our blessings.
I am so thankful for the
abilities I have and praise God for them. He amazes me all day long for
even allowing me to have what I have. Even though I can no longer use my
fingers, there is still so much I can do. Even though I cannot move my
legs, I still have a voice, my mind, and my faith and I will never give
up. #ToGodBeTheGlory
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