Introduction Last year, on a summer afternoon, my two younger brothers were playing together in our living room and found a glass Christmas ornament lying on the floor. Someone must have missed it when we were packing the Christmas decorations away. Unwisely, my brothers started playing a game of catch with the ornament, tossing it to each other. Inevitably, one of them missed a catch, and the ornament shattered on our kitchen floor. I was working on homework in the kitchen, but I thought that the ornament was broken in the living room. In my haste to see what had happened, I did not notice that the broken glass was, in fact, on the kitchen floor.
As I rushed to the living room to check on the situation, I stepped on a rather large piece of glass. My foot began to bleed profusely, a growing puddle of blood collecting on our hardwood floor. In the moment, my foot was not in much pain, and I was attempting to remain calm. My brothers and parents rushed to help me and to clean up the glass. Then I went to the ER, where my foot was cleaned, glued, and bandaged. Thankfully, I did not need stitches. However, this injury occurred right before my family and I were about to leave on a two-week vacation, so the timing was inconvenient. Still, I experienced the Lord’s faithfulness through the recovery process on this trip. God’s faithfulness was manifest to …show more content…
After our trip, I was scheduled to work two summer camps and jump right back in to dance classes and a dance intensive within the course of the next few weeks. Having only begun to start walking again, I was unsure that I would be able to adequately volunteer at the camps or to dance on my foot. However, God continued to heal me and strengthened me to work and begin dancing full-time again without pain. It seemed almost as if the injury had never occurred; everything proceeded smoothly. God truly amazed me with His goodness and did more for me than I