Today I had a realization, these last couple weeks I have been working through basic thoughts and questions against Christianity. Thoughts such as "why do bad things happen to good people" and just all kinds of questions like that. As Christians we tend to have a different view on what and why bad things happen to us, more of a trial and tribulation view. Here is my realization, "When walking in the dark we're bound to stub our toe" While typical bad things happen are much worse than a stubbed toe it just makes sense. Have you ever turned the lights off in a room and then walked from one side to the other? It doesn't matter how well I feel I know the room my shins and toes are for finding objects in the dark. About two months ago I was rushing up the stairs, taking two steps at a time. When all of a sudden BANG I even let out a little involuntary grunt, and just fell the rest of the way up the stairs. Personally, I don't know about you, but I am an experienced stair climber. I climb many stairs each and every day. Yet BANG at closer inspection on my toe I can clearly see where the nail bent back and already there was blood under half of the nail. It's funny because I had a place I was going to go with this blog and it seems to be taking a different direction (God lead my words the way they need to go) I climb stairs everyday so many times I do it without paying attention than one time I mess up, and now look at my messed up toe. I thought about posting a picture of it, but i opted against it because I didn’t feel like grossing people out. It’s funny, I made it up that very set of stairs a countless amount of times with no problem, then when I misstep and I get hurt I wanted to blame everything else. Yet the more I tried the more I couldn't. I even attempted to convince myself that the wood in the stair must have gotten wet and warped. When I look back at it now I think about all the times I made it up with close calls. And how quickly I forgot every single one of them that one time I messed up. I guess it’s almost human nature to forget the good when the bad comes in. I've had my fair share of bad things that have happened in my life(my big three) and when other people ask me how i can deal with what happened to me all I can think is look at every little thing that happened to save my life. I know I didn't really go into it in that blog but the list of things that happened that skewed it just right to save my life is longer than the list Santa checks every year. This is something that has changed in me lately; I will no longer allow the bad to bum me out. The good in the long run will far outweigh the bad. I will turn to praise God in everything that goes wrong because God will make it work for my good! Praise God that I stubbed my toe because the pain turned to praise
