I was tucking Jesse in at night, giving him a hug...when he didn't realize his own strength and he gave me a push. I fell back onto his desk, hitting the edge (maybe corner) of it with my head while trying to brace myself with my right arm. My head had immediate pain as did my arm. I told Jesse what had happened and said good night again.
Quietly I went to the freezer and pulled out a small ice pack to put on the back of my head. I iced it for half an hour. The next day I still had pain...and it continues a third day...but I will survive (grins). All I could think of when I hit my head was how amazing the brain was. The brain is this mass of a Jello-like substance protected by a very hard skull bone. The skull's purpose is solely for protection.
We are similar to that Jello-like mass. Left unprotected we can be easily bruised or molded in a different form. Life situations come at us from all angles. We need protection...we need that Source of hardness.
Allowing Jesus to form around us...holding our "mass" of who we are, we can have that Protection. When life hits us with "hard edges", He is there to take the blow. We can rely on His stability. That is not to say that sometimes the things that hit us in life...or that we choose to be "hit" by...do not affect Him. I am sure He feels all of our pain...the pain that we cannot control as well as the pain we bring upon ourselves.
We need to keep Jesus as the focus in our life in order to maintain the protective relationship for without the "skull" we would be shapeless and totally on our own to be "hit" on all sides. Jesus takes on our worries, cares, hardships, and he loves to celebrate with us in our joys. Thank Jesus that He wants to be there for us always...always caring for us.
See Psalm 91
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