Leaning Into Grace As Life Goes On
@bethvogt
My youngest daughter Christa is having ankle surgery today.
Surgery and rehabbing her ankle were not part of her original plan for the summer. I talked about how her Plan A fell apart in my blog post “Why Can We Be Hopeful When Our Plans Fall Apart?”
Christa got through the last weeks of her spring semester at Bethel University (Minnesota) wearing one of those big black boots on her right foot – y’all know what I mean. She said when you’re wearing one you notice all the other people wearing them, too. It’s like how motorcyclists wave to one another when they pass each other on the highway.
She finished the volleyball season … on the sidelines, running the scoreboard. But, hey, she was with her team, and she had fun.
Christa hasn’t driven a car since the middle of April, which meant her boyfriend drove her back and forth to work – or to Starbucks – and other friends filled in when he couldn’t. (Thank you, Kiernan. Thank you, Katelyn.)
We’re all ready for her to be on the other side of surgery and commence with rehab. I don’t like the fact no one can be with her during pre-op or post-op – neither does her dad or her boyfriend, who arrived in Colorado yesterday to help her recuperate for the next week. But like so many other people who’ve had to have medical procedures during this crazy time of COVID, there’s absolutely nothing we can do about the “no family allowed” restriction.
Christa was going to write today’s blog post. A bad headache foiled that plan because we insisted she go to bed and be ready for surgery today. She wanted to write about how when things fall about, God catches you when you’re falling.
That truth is what’s gotten her through everything life has demanded of her since she was injured in mid-April.
She has a wonderful way with words, so stay tuned for her post later this summer.
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