Today’s post is inspired by Modern Mrs. Darcy’s practice of posting every midpoint of winter a contemplation of not What’s killing me right now, but What’s saving my life right now?
What’s killing me is easy, right? Even if life circumstances are smooth sailing, it’s still the season. The cold is killing me. The dreary days, the early sundowns. Etc, etc.
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So what is saving my life this Groundhog Day?
Is it hot, comforting cups of coffee I look forward to every midday to perk me up?
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Is it a weekend getaway with just me and Jason I’m looking forward to in a few weeks?
Is it the fact that we traveled to Costa Rica over New Year’s, thereby psychologically extending Christmastime by several weeks into January?
Is it that all of my children are walking with the Lord? This certainly gives me deep, deep measures of peace, relief, joy, and gratefulness.
Is it having friends that I enjoy going out for a meal with, or just texting all day about ridiculous things that make me laugh?
Yes, of course, all those things are kind of saving my life.
But the thing that springs to the top of my mind as saving my life is an absence of much reduced pain.
I haven’t been taking the prescription painkiller since we got back from Costa Rica, but I’m not in constant pain anymore.
Why, you ask?
Is it the fascial counterstrain sessions I’ve been having that have yet to produce a dramatic miracle moment? Is it the five pounds I’ve dropped this month? Is it cutting out sugar? Is it the collagen smoothies I’m drinking? The magnesium supplements? Yoga? Some enigmatic combination thereof? Or is it just that I haven’t gone running for a couple of months?
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It’d be nice to know, so I can keep reproducing the favorable conditions. But in the meantime, life is much better without pain…in fact, the relief feels like it’s just saving my life.
