I remember the sharp crack as my head hit, that split second of silence when your heart asks, "Are we okay?" I lay there longer than I meant to, worried, taking inventory. Everything was fine until I stood up, and then there was a sharp pain down my leg. In that moment, all I wanted to do was get home. But the next morning, thankfully, I was okay. The limp was gone. Life resumed, but the lesson learned.
Life changes in unplanned, unannounced ways. Sometimes it's traumatic. Sometimes it's just a slip on the ice. We don't get to choose when those moments come, but we do get to choose how we live in between them. So today, I will live with gratitude for what I have, joy for the life I've been given, and an awareness that every ordinary moment is quietly a gift.
This is Dr. Scott Morris for Church Health.
