Face-Planting

“For when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Corinthians 12:10b, NIV). 

I was on my usual Saturday morning run when I took a different path. Cutting up a small hill, I slipped on loose gravel and fell hard, face-planting and abrading the skin off my left forehead and periorbital face. Bleeding was modest, and only one young couple stopped to ask if I needed help. I finished my run, but I am ugly now. I completed hospital rounds that morning and led our Bible study today, looking like half a racoon.

The fall was not serious, and I will soon recover my marginally attractive looks, but my pride was punctured. Not only did it show the world my ugly bruises, but it also showed them that I could fall; I could fail.

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