Allow me a very self-indulgent post today. Yes, I know, they’re all self-indulgent. That’s why you write a blog in the first place, Silly!
When I was young…Oh, a few of you are still here…anyway, when I was young, I had a football coach who took the following view of injuries:
If it’s more than a foot away from your heart, you’re okay. Get back in there!
He was a big, gruff, ex-professional football player whose career spanned the years when face-masks were still a novelty, and long before the current obsessive concern with player safety (there’s a post for another day). Of course, he was exaggerating a bit, nevertheless, he was unsympathetic to players who faced injuries less than heroically.
We all need to keep in mind the grace and mercy of God that WE are so desperately in need of, and pass it on!