Quit looking for an easy life

This is the topic of one of Tommy's sermons and time and again we quote this phrase to each other.

It really came home to me the first of this month, June 2024.  I had prayed and debated and agonized for a year as to whether or not to have knee replacement surgery.  When Tommy, John boy and I went to Universal to Harry Potter World, and I had to get a wheelchair in order to get around, we all agreed I should go ahead.  I had heard various takes on the surgery.  Some good and some bad.

I had snapped back so quickly when I broke my hip a few years back, that I thought surely I would do the same with the knee,

Huh uh. Na Da.  Negative.  No snapping back from this baby!  Oh, everyone tells me I am ahead of the game, especially my sister, Teresa, who has had it done herself.  However, I am 3 weeks in now and feel like I should not only be able to walk around Universal Studio, but I should be starting to train for a marathon, like our adopted son Greg was doing before his "easy" life got interrupted!  (another story.)

I have faithfully done all my physical therapy that the hospital gave me to do, plus another sheet that Tommy printed from the internet.  I am up to walking almost a mile a day and I haven't missed a day working at the ware house.  (I did miss the food truck this morning but that too is another story.)

The guys leave for Indiana tomorrow and will be gone for 4 days.  I will be here by myself, so am planning on working that old knee as much as I can, so that if I DO choose to run that marathon, I will be in shape.  (Don't worry.  I won't)

Through all of this though, I keep telling myself that "this too shall pass" and I need to quit "looking for an easy life."    

An old poem I used to have up in my bedroom when I was in high school started, "God did not promise skies always blue, flower strewn pathways all our lives through."  I can't remember the rest but that is sufficient. 

So I will keep going.  I will keep bending the knee.  I will stay positive  and most of all I will quit looking for an easy life.