So I recently broke my toe.  Rather silly.  Just stubbed it on the couch.  But I hit it hard and heard it break.  3 times.  Or at least, there were 3 consecutive crunches.  EWWWWWW.  Gross right?!  When it comes to anyone else, I can handle scrapes and boo boos and blood and gore just fine. In fact, Im probably the person you want around should some nasty accidents happen.  One time my friend's son broke his arm on the playground - to the point that his bone was protruding out of his skin.  Snapped right in half.  Total gore-fest.  It was horrific.  But I mama-beared the situation and helped manage it all with such calm collectedness.  However, as the years roll by, this is NOT the case with myself and personal injuries.  If I so much as get a deep paper cut, I may just pass out. 

So, needless to say, this broken toe thing has really given me the heebie jeebies. 

Last night I was laying in bed after a long day of working and momming and just general humaning, I was thinking about my throbbing toe and the utter lack of help and care Im receiving and how much worse Im probably making it without being able to rest it the way I should and wondering if this was just total absolute karma for that one time my fella injured himself in the gym and I totally dropped the ball in the taking-care department because I was wrapped up in myself.  But even with my failing him, he still extended me grace, and by his example I am doing the same.

I laid there thinking about whether or not I should go to urgent care.  What would they really be able to do?  Nothing.  Tape and wrap it as I have been doing.  Then I got to thinking about how my body will heal itself.  How with just some time and rest, my bones will come back together and heal.  It blows my mind.  How with no intervention - just by being still - my body will mend.

Then it kind of hit me.  Is this not what the Lord commands of us?

Applying it to life I have two choices here: I could freak out like the Israelites.  I could hem and haw and wonder and worry and fret OR I can just be still and observe a miracle and watch the waters of the sea part.  

I chose to be still.

...As still as a mama can be anyhow. :)