Battle Scars

I looked down at my feet today and saw some scars, dark patches and stuff. I had the instinctive reaction of covering it immediately. They were dark and it  marred the rhyming that my leg's complexion was finally getting. Before I could discredit them....I remembered what they signified. A particularly big one was a dark patch. I got it a year ago when I had funny swellings on my feet. It was attributed to Kidney, Liver, Heart and almost all vital organs' malfunction. I'm here today, and I'm grateful all I have from the experience are dark patches here and there.

Others are dark patches from needle pricks from an illness in 2009..they had exhausted all the veins in my arms and legs. Yes. Every viable one had been used and then my legs’ were called on. Thank God all I have are dark patches as memorials from the experience.

Many of us have battle scars like that... The bulge from the baby, the limp from the accident that claimed lives but God spared yours, the scars from the fire...these scars take different forms.

I'm grateful to God for my scars. It shows the wounds have healed.

Let this thankfulness remain O Lord!!!