Even though I fully believe in God’s sovereignty, the reality of losing the week of rest we both needed and felt we deserved had to be faced. I replayed the situation in my mind a hundred times trying to figure out what had happened and why. (Later I decided it was the “jumping” out of the very high log bed that caused my disc to get pinched.) Yet there was no changing it, no do-overs or ‘take two.’ What choice I did have was to give thanks in a very uncomfortable situation, do all we could to improve it and ask God to teach me, to be real and to work His plans for good.