Come Thou Fount Inspired
As I start school today and am currently waiting for my textbook to download- I can't help but think about the summer I had, the lessons I learned, the things I experienced, and the people I met.
How this came about: I put my headphones on and clicked on my playlist of hymns/early 2000s Christian music on YouTube. The song Come Thou Fount started playing and I was reminded on the conversations I had about craving more hymns. This is weird because I don't tell many people this but I grew up baptist and then went a non-denominational church for many years, and still do. To jump ahead in my story a bit and while the same song was still playing, I was trying to think of how to choreograph a dance to it. For some reason I began to think about my vision, which led to thinking about my surgery/recovery.
My surgery went just as planned (...more or less) but my recovery did not. I was doing great until the third day- I was then having symptoms of an infection. Anxiety was sorta maxing out until I was able to check in with my doctor and as it turned out, I didn't have an infection. That wasn't the end of my roughness, unfortunately. The average time off work after eye muscle surgery is five days- I took seven days to get to the point where I could go back to work. This wasn't my first rodeo but my third.
The lessons learned: one, recovery is faster as a child than an adult. Two, you gotta have faith in the trials. Three, adjusting plans on the spot is not easy for me but I've gotten a few opportunities to work on it this summer.
Self-care: it definitely takes practice for some people and can absolutely be hard, however, with a little perfect practice we can all nail this good thing.
How this came about: I put my headphones on and clicked on my playlist of hymns/early 2000s Christian music on YouTube. The song Come Thou Fount started playing and I was reminded on the conversations I had about craving more hymns. This is weird because I don't tell many people this but I grew up baptist and then went a non-denominational church for many years, and still do. To jump ahead in my story a bit and while the same song was still playing, I was trying to think of how to choreograph a dance to it. For some reason I began to think about my vision, which led to thinking about my surgery/recovery.
My surgery went just as planned (...more or less) but my recovery did not. I was doing great until the third day- I was then having symptoms of an infection. Anxiety was sorta maxing out until I was able to check in with my doctor and as it turned out, I didn't have an infection. That wasn't the end of my roughness, unfortunately. The average time off work after eye muscle surgery is five days- I took seven days to get to the point where I could go back to work. This wasn't my first rodeo but my third.
The lessons learned: one, recovery is faster as a child than an adult. Two, you gotta have faith in the trials. Three, adjusting plans on the spot is not easy for me but I've gotten a few opportunities to work on it this summer.
Self-care: it definitely takes practice for some people and can absolutely be hard, however, with a little perfect practice we can all nail this good thing.
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