(not necessarily in that order)
Had my first physical therapy session today and came away knowing that my shoulder is not completely wrecked!
True, I don’t yet know the results of the MRI, but I now have a “stoplights” understanding of what it means to work (and breathe) through discomfort (a yellow light) versus stopping when I encounter acute or severe pain (red light).
I also discovered that there’s still quite a bit of strength there; I simply have to relearn how to trust it and build on it.
Yay!
I woke up this morning wondering how, exactly, does one find strength in love?
I thought about it off and on all day and it seems to me that the real question lies in what kind of love are we relying on for our strength?
I have a hunch that lifetime after lifetime is spent trying to find strength in love of people, love of money and things, love of power, love of intelligence, love of physical health, and so on and so forth. But none of those is–in and of itself–a permanent, infinite love.
Not that I’m there yet (by any means!), but I believe we find strength in love only when we begin to have even a glimmer of an understanding that God IS love. That, in Truth, there is nothing BUT love. And that we are ONE with that Love, which is all there is.
So I propose we update the phrase to read “find your strength in Divine Love.”