Taking my breath away

Camp is about to wrap up. We only have about three more groups left! Let me catch you us on stuff going on. My brother and sister are out here working :) I got a chance to pick them up from the airport and it has been so GREAT to have them here. I wish my other brother could have made it as well. But I love having them here.

I have mentioned before that we are going through Love Does and how awesome the staff has been this year. Last night was just another example. We had dinner down at the barn with the campers and some of the staff, including me, were sitting on the hitching posts for the horses hanging off them. One of the staff did a flip all the way around backwards and I decided to try it to. Mistake. I got around but didn't quite make it and fell hard on my back. I have not had the wind knocked out of me that hard since I was about 8 years old on the bumper cars at the board walk. It was very painful. Needless to say it took a while for me to be able to breathe, talk and then move.  

this is what it looked like....

The staff crowded around to make sure I was ok and one of the girls put here knees up behind me to hold me up while I attempted to relax and catch my breath. That support was so great! They all walked me back to the nurse and stayed with me until they knew it was ok. I had a car ready to take me to urgent care if needed and prayer was said over my back as soon as it happened.

It always humbles me to see how much people care for me. These people I just met a few months ago. And they are willing to drop everything to take me to urgent care if I need to go. (which I didn't, don't freak out mommy) I have always been stubborn especially when it comes to being hurt or sick. I try to act all tough and strong but sometimes I can't. Seeing my brother and sister's faces when I could not move, and the worry they had scared me. I have always been the big sister. I have always wanted to be strong for them and never to have them worry about me. Last night reminded me that I can be taken care of too. As much as I want to be strong...sometimes I just can't. 
I know I have written posts about strength before and I am seeing how God is using these lessons to show me, time and time again, that it is ok to be weak to rely on others. Because at times we cannot do it on our own. We have to use the people around us and that is why He puts those people in our lives. If we were meant to be alone we would be but we were meant for relationship and community and that is what our hearts yearn for. 
My back is doing better and I am grateful for the chance to relax today and grateful that I am not stubborn enough to listen to the voice of reason surrounding me telling me to rest instead of proving to myself I am ok. Gotta hate that :)