Duck Foot no Longer

When I was six years old, I got run over by a caterpillar at a construction site. The pile of dirt I was standing on caved in because of the heavy equipment vibration. The dirt covered me up, and the cat driver didn’t see me until one of my arms popped into view. I had climbed up on the pile on my way to school to see better what was happening with all the trucks, cats, and other construction equipment. My left leg was broken in six places as the cat track ran up my leg, breaking the bone at each track cleat. I was in the hospital for some time, but I recovered fully. If you are interested, I have written several blogs on this event in my life in much more detail. One slight problem in my recovery was that my left foot was crooked; it stuck out to the side at about a 45-degree angle instead of straight ahead. The only time anybody noticed was if they followed me in the snow. I had a distinct set of tracks, and my left foot looked like a duck track. I never saw any consequence to this difference in my left foot as I grew up playing sports and running a dozen marathons as an adult. But now, since my hip replacement surgery, my left foot is straight. I have no idea whether my “duck foot” was a factor in my hip going bad, but it sounds reasonable. I didn’t notice at first, but a couple of days ago, I was walking on the treadmill and looking down at my feet as I walked and thought, my foot is straight, cool. Several years ago, when I was running marathons, I went to a running shoe store that would do a video of you running on a treadmill and then replaying the video in slow motion to try and determine how much pronation there was in your ankles to help determine the style of shoe that would work best. When they looked at my video, the salesperson commented that my feet and pronation were way different and I should buy two pairs of shoes and wear a different shoe on each foot. My response was to buy one set of shoes halfway in the middle. How is this for a discussion question in a small group, “Is your physical body perfect, or do you have some defect, even a small one, in you physically?” Or maybe this question, “If God would fix or change anything in you physically, what would it be?” Most people would mention something less than perfect in them. The cool thing is that when I get my glorified body, it will be perfect in every way; it will be exactly like the body that Jesus now has. How about my character? What needs fixing with that? When I step into heaven, will that defect be fixed?

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