FREE GRACE - When I viewed the free groceries video I couldn't help but think how difficult it is to believe that God's gift to us is absolutely free. Just like the lady at the grocery store many conclude, "There's got to be a catch, right?" Ephesians 2:8 says: "Saving is all God's idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It’s God’s gift from start to finish! We don’t play the major role. If we did, we’d probably go around bragging that we’d done the whole thing!" (The Message)
LEG AMPUTATION - I heard this story during our time at the battlefields at Gettysburg earlier this week.
Union General Daniel Sickles had his right leg amputated when he got hit by a wayward cannon ball. His amputation was above the knee following his injury at Gettysburg in July of 1863.
Now here’s where his story became a bit more interesting. General Sickles found out that the army was collecting “specimens of morbid anatomy together with projectiles and foreign bodies” and donated his newly detached limb in a small coffin-shaped box to the Army Medical Museum in Washington.
But the story of General Sickles did not stop with the end of the war. The General actually visited his missing leg each year on the anniversary of his amputation.
ANNE LAMOTT is an author that I have been reading lately and today while at the YMCA I viewed two of her interviews. “Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair” is the title of her latest book. Here is one of her quotes:
“You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.”
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