In August of last year, I wrote a blog post entitled "A Blessing In Disguise" about how an injury kind of cured a certain back pain that I had been experiencing for years. Interestingly, a similar thing happened to me just three days ago. On that evening, we hosted a dinner at our house to celebrate Ryan's 48th birthday.
Even though Eric's family has been staying in our basement for the past 12 days while their kitchen is being remodeled and while Nicole recovers from a partial knee replacement surgery, most of his family couldn't attend the meal, but Cheryl's family (minus Parker) ate with us. After dinner, Cheryl needed to take her children home to get them in bed, but Kessler wanted to stay and have a sleepover at our house. With my approval and with Cheryl's approval, the sleepover was a go. I made a little foam pad bed for him at the foot of my bed.
As I was stepping over the bed to get to the bathroom, I kind of tweaked my right knee (the one I had knee replacement surgery on about 19 months ago) and heard a pop. My knee throbbed for about 2 minutes and then the pain went away. I have had a lot of pain in that knee ever since the surgery. Even though I have been doing all of the physical therapy exercises regularly, the pain never went away and it has been very frustrating. After that pop, my knee feels better than it ever has since the surgery. Amazing! If I have to decide whether it was dumb luck that the pop occurred or a tender mercy from the Lord, I will choose tender mercy. I have prayed and prayed that the pain in my knee would go away. It never did until that pop occurred. I thank the Lord that my knee is doing so much better now. I'm thinking that maybe some scar tissue needed to be torn away for my knee to operate better. I'm glad it did if that's what happened. Sometimes good can come from painful experiences.
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