An Unexpected Summer of Beauty

Tomorrow officially marks 1 month post op. [August 15th]

Saturday marks one week away from moving back to school.

Im struggling to find the words to adequately portray the beauty I've experienced this summer.

I am leaving this summer season healed in more ways than I could have ever hoped for as I go back to school this fall.

From the beginning of my fusion story God's hand has been in it all. I feel so blessed to have had scoliosis. Not because it was fun, but because of the personal testimony I get to walk away with.

Consider what God has done: Who can straighten what he has made crooked? - Ecclesiastes 7:13

I wish I could explain how beautiful it has been to feel little pieces of my body grow back together day by day. I wish I could paint you a picture of just how many milestones I had to pass and passed when I didn't know if it would be possible. I wish you could experience the little tingles as your body wakes up or watching how much easier every day task like brushing your teeth, sitting up, or walking up & down stairs becomes daily. I wish you could grasp how incredible it is that modern medicine can drill holes into a spine, completely rearrange it, and have the body grow back and function.   Most importantly I wish I could open up my heart and let you experience every little beautiful thing God has done for me spiritually, emotionally, and physically since the moment the word surgery left my doctors mouth on June 5th, 2014.

I got so much more out of this summer than expected. It makes it a little harder to leave home when Im leaving such a sweet time in my life behind and the wonderful people who stood by me through it all. I feel extremely blessed and grateful to be able to return to school this fall though.

I've still got at least 11-17 more months to go until I can go 110%, but when that time comes I'm going to resume taking on the world. For now I will carry my pillow for chairs, nap when needed, and shamelessly show my scar. I earned it.

1 Month down.

This is what I've been focused on. The pain and difficulty is worth it.

"My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me -   2 Corinthians 12:9

This has been the verse of my summer.