Wonderfully Made
“I didn’t expect it to hurt this much.”
“Well, yeah, you got hit in the head with a metal door, so it might hurt a little bit.”
I had to ask myself if I liked this Doctor.
“Having a headache is understandable too,” he continued, “just watch for dizziness and be careful while driving.”
Puzzled by his dismissal, I probed further, “And, you’re sure there’s no broken bone?”
“No, probably some bruising underneath the skin around the bone and along the nerves, but no broken bone. Perhaps, you even have a very mild concussion.”
His uncertainty didn’t settle well with me, but he was the expert. Could I have gotten into a discussion with said expert over what I saw when I looked at my own CT scan? Although I decided against it, I still wondered…
Augustine said, "Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering." So I blame Augustine for my efforts at self-diagnosis. With that quote fresh on my mind, I admit it. I had looked at my CT scan and wondered.
Compliments of the cardboard compactor’s door at work, the slight swelling to my right check comparably mild to how much it hurt to talk and eat and sleep. I sleep on my right side. Maybe I was even a bit grouchy by the time I had seen the doctor too. Sorry Doc.
Although I am thankful that there were no broken bones, that scan did reveal images of the unseen but felt. Bone. Eyeball sockets. Teeth. Ears. My mind traveled far beyond the image of my skull before me. Intestines. Liver. Stomach. Tissue. Muscle. Blood. My heart. Wait, back up. My brain sits behind this image. Imagine that. No, that's a fact not a thing contrived by imagination. For a while I sat there staring at that CT scan lost in the thought, "Wow, I am pretty amazing."
And, in that statement there's no vain ambition nor is there any selfish conceit. It's a praise! I stand with those as the pinnacle of God's creation. My intrinsic worth confirmed by The Expert. So in response to His affirmation, I pray to the God who created me. "JEHOVAH HOSEENU, I am amazing! THANK YOU!"
Additional resources: Psalm 139:14-16 & Philippians 2:3-4
