So I am learning from this surgery. I wear this sling that immobilizes my left arm on a pillow that is strapped around my body. Sort of makes it hard to use my left arm, but I guess that is the point… It means that I cannot do many really ordinary tasks like anything that takes two hands. Buttoning blue jeans for instance.
I have a workshop starting tomorrow night. Normally it takes me 45 minutes to set up the equipment for the workshop. If I were to do it my self tomorrow, well, it would not get done. So I have to have help. I do not like asking for help. It makes me feel needy and weak – there may be, just a little vestige of pride in that last phrase.
So my son and son-in-law are going to help. My son will help me set up. My son-in-law will help me take it down.
That is a really good picture of the Body is it not? I do not have a hand, someone else supplies it. I cannot get in some positions to connect components, someone else can. I do not have all of the gifts. I do not know everything there is to know. That is why I need others.
This sling is helping me apply that reality more effectively.
I have a workshop starting tomorrow night. Normally it takes me 45 minutes to set up the equipment for the workshop. If I were to do it my self tomorrow, well, it would not get done. So I have to have help. I do not like asking for help. It makes me feel needy and weak – there may be, just a little vestige of pride in that last phrase.
So my son and son-in-law are going to help. My son will help me set up. My son-in-law will help me take it down.
That is a really good picture of the Body is it not? I do not have a hand, someone else supplies it. I cannot get in some positions to connect components, someone else can. I do not have all of the gifts. I do not know everything there is to know. That is why I need others.
This sling is helping me apply that reality more effectively.
It's exciting when such significant young me in your life can help you; those times will increase as you continue to "mature...."
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