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Sustained Through Every Season

  • Marnie Hammar
  • April 19, 2022
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I sat on the hard plastic chair in the waiting room, ready to be called back for my physical therapy appointment. In these weeks after surgery, I noticed that my ‘best’ days were my physical therapy (PT) days. Sure, their magic methods and exercises offered relief, but there was more to it than that.

During my second week of therapy, I got a hint of what that was. When my PT asked how I was, my automatic, didn’t-even-think-about-it reply was, “I don’t know—maybe you can tell me.”

I was anxious. The list of unknowns stretched long: Was I meeting the milestones? Was I doing the exercises right? Was it healing correctly?

Apparently I needed reassurance and validation and approval, and since PT days were my best days, it was clear that my physical therapist was filling that need. When we’ve given ourselves into the care of medical experts, that’s appropriate—and needed. But this conversation revealed that, on my days at home, when the PTs and doctors weren’t around, I was missing something.

The year before my surgery, through the pain and disappointment and frustration, the Holy Spirit whispered encouragements and teachings and comfort and direction. He sustained me through that season. He grew me. He promised to heal me.

But now that I was healing, was I still seeking Him with the same urgency? Because here I was, rocking out my physical therapy days, yet allowing anxiety to creep in on the days I didn’t have appointments. All while Jesus was there, right next to me, on every one of those days.

As I continue to heal, I never want to forget that He is still there, for every part of the journey—the pain and the healing; the wounding and the recovery; the broken and the restoration.

Lord, as I learn to walk more steadily on my own, let it still be with You. Let Yours be the words that sustain and heal me—through every season I find myself in. Amen

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Marnie Hammar

Marnie Hammar writes to encourage women that freedom isn’t found in perfectly completed checklists, but in knowing God deeper and hearing Him louder. You can find her most often on the soccer sidelines cheering with her hubby of 28 years for their boys (17, 14, & 11). Marnie hangs out on Instagram, on Facebook, and at her website, where you can subscribe to receive a free resource, A Listening Guide and Prayer Map, to help you capture your prayer time as you listen for His voice.

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  1. Debbie Powell says:
    April 19, 2022 at 1:14 pm

    I had a similar experience with physical therapy after knee replacement surgery. As long as I was in therapy I kept up with the exercises and progressed well. But afterward, I stopped and didn’t continue with the physical activity that would be bedt for me. Instead if depending on God for strength and encouragement, I slipped into old habits. It’s easy for me to pray and depend on God for the things I’m used to doing, but much more difficult to give him the areas of my life that need changing! May I realize he is a much better person to take control than I am, and give him control of the things I don’t want to change! Praise Him. Thank you for your insight!

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    1. Marnie says:
      April 21, 2022 at 8:01 pm

      Debbie, thank you so much for sharing this. I understand! Giving over those areas where we hold tightly is hard! But trusting Him to be in every single one of those places, even the ones that are hard, is the hurdle, isn’t it? He is waiting for us. In all the places. Thank you, Lord, for waiting for us!

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  2. Jenni says:
    April 22, 2022 at 4:02 pm

    Amen thank you for sharing

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