So much has happened since I last wrote in March. 

First off I planned a surprise birthday party for Chris all the while planning a  meeting in Chicago for my day job.  

In the meantime, getting the guest room, master bed room and basement organized.  We shelved books, cleared out the chapel area and moved my office downstairs.  That was all second week or so in  March.  My Lenten journey had been going fairly well.  Limited myself to 2 hours of TV a week, that was successful.  Not eating  meat all Lent didn’t work as well, but my prayer life made up for that. 

Getting ready for Passion Sunday and Holy week to come, I was in a car wreck on the way to work April 3rd, and broke my wrist.  No, not from the air bag, from grabbing for the emergency break.  Crazy, how fast something like that can happen.  The other driver was ticketed and Chris and I spent the majority of the morning in the ER.  With a fresh splint and Vicodan prescription we headed home for a weekend of painkillers and a whole-lotta sleep.  For such a small (non-displaced fracture of the Radius bone) break, it hurt a lot.  I have a pretty high pain tolerance (well, for not giving birth), that I thought I could just tough it out.   God invented prescription pain killers for a reason.  When my wrist stopped throbbing, I was able to switch to Aleeve and  now I’m pretty much pain free 5 weeks after the accident. 

My prospective of my day really changed.  I can and still do, sense the deliberate tone in my choices. The way I ate to the way I talked on the phone to people, the way I interacted with Chris, to my prayers to God; everything was affected by my accident. 

I really felt that this catching up I was doing was preparing for some life altering experience.  Not sure what that meant then.  But now it seems like it was to slow down and ask for help.  Keeping prayer and my relationship with Chris the mainstay of my recovery process, I’ve been able to slow down and look at the gift of the present and not rush everything. 

It’s been an amazing journey and I look forward to what the rest of today brings.