Broken Bones

I'm grateful that I have never broken a bone before nor has my daughter. But, it seems like lately many students at school are wearing casts for various broken bones. I will often ask students how it happened and most often than not it was a simple thing of something like falling off a scooter or bike. The normal activity caused the break despite all the precaution and previous experience in the world. Thankfully, after several weeks, the cast comes off and all is back to "normal" in life. Perhaps make the student even more aware for the future in similar situations.

In our lives there are everyday situations and circumstances that break us and it can be painful. We are in need of a deep healing and that can take some time to happen in full. In the meantime, we wear our casts of covering the pain in prayer, visiting our ultimate healer in the Sacraments even more frequently, ask others to cover us in prayer, and keep going trying to do our day to day as best as we can under our circumstances.  In time, all will heal, and though we always continue to seek God through the Sacraments and prayer, we can shift our attention to other things.

In the meantime, let's continue to pray for one another - whether we notice their cast covering their brokenness or not. We all at one time or another suffer in some form of brokenness that needs to be carried to our Lord.

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Lord, there are times I feel like a broken bone. I know in those moments I need to turn to you for healing. While I'm in the process of being healed, please cover me and protect me from all other evils and harm. Thank you Lord for always hearing my prayer. Amen.

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Simply a little pencil in God's hand,

Elizabeth