Fearfully and Wonderfully Made

You Made All The Delicate, Inner Parts Of My Body And Knit Me Together In My Mother's Womb. Thank You For Making Me So Wonderfully Complex! Your Workmanship is Marvelous-And How Well I Know It.

Psalm 139: 13-14

It was seven months ago today that they broke my face. With a tiny instruments those surgeons sawed through the tissue and muscles in my upper face and rearranged bone into new positions. Seven months ago was the last surgery. In the first, the bones in my upper palate had been cracked and split by the doctors and spread apart with tenderness everyday by my husband and a lock with a key. My nose was broken in the second surgery and restructured to make a breathing way for the final surgery. Amazing that all these things have come to pass in just 2 and half years. Three surgeries and a baby!

It was seven months ago that they broke my face. And now you wouldn't even know it. The bones had mended. The body has healed. Miraculous, don't you think?

In Devotions for Moms by Ellen Elwell I read, "After a bone breaks, an intricate process begins. Excited repair cells invade in swarm. Within two weeks a cartilage-like sheath called callus surrounds the region and cement-laying cells enter the jellied mass. These cells are the osteoblasts, the pothole-fillers of the bone. " Two or three months later, a mass of new bond bulges over both sides of the broken ends of the fracture, looking like a spliced garden hose. As healing takes place, the new growth is smoothed out and the final result closely resembles the original bone.

How often have you really sat in awe of the bones and body Our Lord has created? We are truly fearfully and wonderfully made. Only by His Hands could something so miraculous, so amazing been created.

St Augustine said, "Men go abroad to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering."

I thank you God, for making the wonder of me and my body.

So perfectly made.

So Fearfully and Wonderfully Made.