Anticipation and expectation
Just like a relationship, recuperation from surgery is different than I planned
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Do you remember the old ketchup commercial that showed the bottle upside down and the drip of that red gold taking its sweet time to drop onto a delicious burger? The catch phrase was, “It’s slow good.”
Well, I had knee surgery on Monday, March 9 — two months ago this week! — and while I think I’m doing well, I’m still having occasional aches and shooting pains in my knee. Oh, and the fatigue! It doesn’t help that it’s spring and rainy, and that I’m getting older. However, in my mind’s eye, I was supposed to be up and running around by now like a young deer.
Our expectations are not God’s plans. He designed our body to behave and heal in a certain way, and I can’t rush that. Neither can we rush the endings and beginnings of relationships.
I was married for 13 years, and it took me that long to understand God’s timing for that ending. The beginning of my future relationships took way too long, in my opinion. I was always trying to rush and get into a new romance — not a good option, let me tell you.
We have to remember what God told us in Jeremiah 29:11, and then we have to read further:
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”
Jeremiah 29: 11-14
We may feel that we are in captivity — of our bodies or our relationships — and we may even feel banished by God. Maybe that’s true. But when we seek him and pray to him, we will find HIM, not the other way around.
Seek him, and know that he is faithful.
Your creative sister in Christ,
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