I was racing home from the gym with a front tire on my bike that was deflating faster than the U.S. dollar in a recession.
I thought I could make it and was within a block of home. As I roared around the final corner by tire slipped off the rim, launching me head first over the handlebars onto the pavement in the middle of the street. Blood was spurting everywhere...I wasn't sure my left eye was still working...I rolled over, jumped up limping, and yanked my bike to sidewalk. I laid down and placed compression pressure over my eye to stop the bleeding
(That's NOT me in the picture but I looked a little worse than that!) .
I immediately began first aid procedures..."Help me Jesus! Heal me Jesus! In the name of Jesus (repeated quickly and painfully 20 times in a row". 5 minutes later Deb came rolling up and at first thought I was laying in the grassy median leisurely waiting for her. But then she saw the blood and it was yet one more time in our 32 years that I was glad she had taken two years of nurses training.
I hobbled home pressing a towel to my eyebrow. I had knee lacerations, a partially dislocated thumb, a three inch gash over my eye and couple of other smaller head wounds. Deb cleaned me up and upon hearing my resistance to go to urgent care, ended up butterflying my eye gash.
Of course I drew some practical and spiritual analogies from my painful experience. Practically speaking, I think helmets are a good idea. Personally I believe an angel caught me in midair. At the speed I was going my brains could have been and should have been laying in the road. I think the angel caught me and then dropped me a little to teach me, "Buy a helmet dummy".
Spiritually speaking, I thought about how people can have bad leak in the their lives, the Spirit of God leaking out of a problem they really need to deal with. But they are racing through life thinking oh it's not that bad, I can make it, there's always time to get it fixed. Then bam! A sudden blow out occurs and they are on their face needing the Great Physician to put them back together again. Don't ignore the leaks in your spiritual life.
My head hurts and so does my ego, but God gives new wisdom to the humble.
4 comments:
Larry,
Sorry about your pain but God always wants to teach us something. Somtimes that truth hurts but like you said needs to be dealt with before you land on your face. Great blog...get a helmet brother!!
Wow! my son and I enjoyed reading your account. What a way to transform a crazy situation into glory to God. May we all have the insight to notice the spiritual leaks in our life before we go head over handle bar...
Larry,
My son and I enjoyed reading your account. What a way to transfrom a crazy situation in to glory to God. I pray that we all will recognize spirtual leaks in our life and fix them before we find ourselves head over handlebar in a pool of blood. Shalom my Brother
That is just another testimony to the "Power of Pain" God loves to move in darkness and often times we rush to fix things ourselves and endup worse off. The Christ Pain the power of the holy spirit was released. It is like a saying I heard once " never go faster than your gaurdian angel can fly. Seems like great advise. Your blog rocks.
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