One of the benefits of
Anatomy 101 (I mean being a PT patient for a few years) is that you learn it’s
all connected. The other day at yoga the instructor asked if my hamstrings were
tight. I refrained from verbalizing the sarcastic reply, which insinuated my
belief that if we still lived in the time and age of printed encyclopedias my
picture would be sitting pretty next to tight hamstrings
Nonetheless, a few days
later I was doing this meditative yoga, which infuriates the hell out of me
because you seemingly do nothing and yet the effects are unreal. In the midst
of it, I recognized I had a knot in my low back that could support the weight
of the globe on the shoulders of Atlas. No wonder my hamstrings were tight.
“Every effect has a cause,” my own words from class the other day echoed back to me. Though I can
trace tight hamstrings to poor posture while reading and sitting too much, I
realize it’s harder to ask and understand the question which holds the cause of
suffering as it pertains to good people.
I’m not going to attempt a
treaty on this question, as the discourse that has been written is vast.
Rather, the past few days I’ve seen the “cause and effect” of my own personal
suffering in light of Love. As the God of life and love leads me through
suffering, He walks with me and shepherds me with gratuitous love. I’ve seen
the causes of other’s actions and uncontrollable circumstances open up and
effect a new reality within and for me. Like Job, I can’t say I’ve liked the
way God has communicated His love at times nor can I say I understand it, but I
trust that even in the midst of suffering the Lord’s cause is always His
steadfast love and the effects, when we cooperate, can transform a seeming mess
into a beautiful one.
The Lord gave,
and the Lord has
taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord - Job 1: 21
Verso l’alto,
K. Grace
Find a place that we find rest in this beautiful mess
You made us beautiful despite all our mess
We are created for holiness
What you don’t have you
don’t need it now
Blessed are you
You are good to me
My heart will choose to
say
Blessed be Your name
You can focus on what
you’ve been through or what you’ve come through.
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