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I am HOME. Glad to be here. Pardon my slowness of communication, although there are reasons - I stayed in the hospital fr. Tues. afternoon to Fri afternoon, and the rules are basically don't move for 2 weeks. I literally laid there for 3 days and just ate lots of food without moving for 3 days. Sounds gross... but kinda fun. Here at home, i can sit with my foot held up high, but I need to lay down a lot and only put the foot down to walk for 2 min. tops. It's not painful as much as before - huge blessing - and I went to see the plastic surgeon Monday and got good news. He thinks it's adhering and looks great. I thought it looked absolutely terrible, Frankenstein-like. It looks like a brown leather patch sown on the wound, but he says that's to be expected. So it was really encouraging to hear that progress is being made, and we're back on track after a lot of disheartening lack of progress.

I hope that you all are seeing some progress in your lives as well! It really does change the way you trust God with your life, doesn't it? We're out of control of lots of things here, and I have to believe that He knows and cares what's best for me above what I want. It's been hard to do that, as 3 months trickle away and many more are ahead, but i think He is helping me to learn to follow Him in ways I've never had to before.

To be honest, as I shared with my House Gathering over the phone tonight, (whoop whoop) I've had to watch my attitude a lot lately. It's so easy to see everyone working so hard around me, and my parents working to help and serve me... and I'm just laying here. I also catch myself eyeing any strong, capable men I see and just wondering if I'll ever be able to even walk. Luke M shared a good word with me by saying, hey - you were in an accident. Now is time to heal. It's ok to just be there and do that. -//- It's just not natural for me, though. The natural tendency is to want to try harder, fix what's wrong. And I can't fix it; all I can do is place my life and recovery in the Father's hands once again and trust Him with my life. It's amazing how often I need to go back and do that all over again.

Anyway, gotta get this foot up again. Thanks for your shouts and your prayers.
Hope to see you soon.

Peace of Christ to you -
Todd