Wife Like Me

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Although I would say that my body is far from perfect and that the way I care for my body is nowhere close to ideal, I am grateful for my body.  Yesterday I did an exercise video all the way through (a pretty big feat for me) and I noticed how good it feels to stretch and move my muscles.  This morning I’m really noticing my muscles–because they’re sore!  Last night during dinner, I was trying to get Degen to take smaller, slower bites of his food because it was hot, and I demonstrated by lifting my fork really, really sloooooooowly, gradually closing my teeth on the food, and chewing about once per two seconds.  Normally, I’m one of the faster eaters in any group, and eating my dinner slowly reminded me of my senses of taste, touch, and especially smell.  Have you noticed that when you eat fast you hardly have time to smell your food? 

Near the end of my pregnancy with Maggie, I remember feeling so huge and uncomfortable and longing for the day when I could comfortably run the garbage outside again.  I desperately wanted to have a body that could exercise again and not make a huge production of getting out of a chair.  I wanted to be able to eat and drink and not have to struggle with heartburn or nausea or medicines.  Now I’ve got that part of me back, and lately I’ve felt an urgency to take advantage of it.

I have a big pimple in the middle of my forehead.  Yesterday it was really huge and rather painful, but today I can see that the swelling is gone and it feels much better and I’m sure it’ll look like it was never there in a day or two.  It’s amazing that my body just takes care of things like that without any conscious instructions–I didn’t have to say anything like “white blood cells, head over to section H8 and clear out that mess!”  It’s like an amazingly big and efficient company where everyone works hard to do their jobs and there’s no bureaucracy or red tape and their main goal is to do whatever I want! 

I’m thankful today for my body, and that makes me want to do more to take good care of this amazing gift God gave me and quit whining and worrying about the things I can’t change (or just haven’t changed).