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Balance

by bill
2012-11-14
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It has been four years since I had surgery and lost one of my four balance nerves.  An odd reminder remains with me.  In the weeks following surgery, I quickly recovered 90%+ of my ability to walk a straight line.  In the first six months, the percentage has gone up to more than 98%.  Yet, as my doctor said when I complained, “the last bit of getting your balance back is a b*&%$”.

The initial discovery that I did not have my balance back was a rude one.  I was confident, in hindsight, overly so.  I had a week without dizziness.  Walking up stairs, turns, and even running were accomplished with a natural ease.  As I went out on my first bicycle ride my confident was high.  It was only in the latter part of the ride, as I accelerated downhill, that I looked down at my feet.  In that instant everything disappeared.  There was no sense of where I had been just a moment before.  The natural awareness of up, down, left, right, forward, or simply being were suspended, instantly.  It felt as if I was floating.  Nothing made sense.  Whatever I had been thinking was pushed aside for a single thought.  What now?

In hindsight I can see the Presence touching me in a tangible way.  My body tensed and I did what felt like the right response.  I looked up.

Everything instantly came into focus.  I could feel the speed.  I could sense my balance and where I was.  I knew I can the ability to control myself.

Wow.

It was unbelievable, so I tried a quick look down and back.  On, off, in control, no control, it was instantaneous.

I realized I was in unchartered territory.  I needed to learn.  I needed to keep my sights on the reference point from which everything else made sense.  David’s words played out in tangibly; “If I keep my eyes on God, I won’t trip over my own feet.” (Psalm 25.15)

I am still not at 100%.  It is ok, only the reference point matters.

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