Days til brace off (read: wear less and less): 2???

2 Corinthians 12: 

⁹ But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. ¹⁰ That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

A friend sent me that along with some other scripture (Exodus 4:10-17, paraphrased below) showing how, for instance, Moses was actually self-conscious about his poor speaking skills.  And yet, God used him to be an incredible leader.  In today’s terms, I think it went kind of like this:

Moses: God, are you serious?  I stink at speaking!  I’m always stuttering and I rarely get my point across.  How the heck am I supposed to lead your people???

God: Dude, I am God!  I made your mouth.  If I want you to speak well, you will.  So just chill.  It’s gonna be fine.

Moses (still skeptical): Yeah, I don’t know… isn’t there someone else that can do it?

God (frustrated): Good grief, fine.  Look, your friend Aaron speaks well, right?  How about I’ll give you the words, you tell him what to say, and he can tell the people?  Does that work???  

If even Moses had trouble trusting in God, then maybe I’m not doing so bad.  I have to figure out how to both “delight in my weakness” like it says in 2 Corinthians, and trust in God to do His will through my weakness.  Frankly, I don’t feel that weak inside.  I feel strong.  I often have the urge to bust down a door or something when I’m walking with KAFOs.  Probably because I know I can’t.  I was standing for a while yesterday practicing my balance and I had a serious urge to chuck the walker through my bedroom window.  I decided against that, though.  Lately, my lack of walking skills just ticks me off more than anything else.    

Yesterday I walked almost 1000 ft. in the KAFOs and stood for a while.  Soon I’m going to try putting them on first thing in the morning and just not using my wheelchair all day.  Of course, that means staying in the apartment all day, too…. maybe I’ll wait til it rains or something.

Today I am struggling somewhat after a late night celebrating the victory of the Blackhawks here in Chicago.  They won the Stanley Cup!  I really can’t believe it.  They were down 2-1 with maybe 7 minutes left and then scored 2 goals in about 30 seconds.  Crazy!  If this is anything like when they won in 2010, the entire city will be unproductive for a week or two.

'Til next time - 

Chip