The Gift of Injury
I’ve been contending with chronic back pain for nearly two years now, and it’s been hard to think of it as anything but a condition, a curse, and a limitation. But as the holidays take hold and I reflect (again) on the many, many blessings of my life, it occurs to me that I’ve recently begun to understand this injury as a kind of gift. Not all the time, and not always happily, of course. But it is a gift, of sorts, from the universe.
Did You Miss Me? by Sam Brown (http://www.explodingdog.com/title/didyoumissme.html)
