My life tends to have some odd happenings from time to time. Pretty sure most of humanity have a variety of the peculiar things we would rather had not happened. I was puppy sitting for grand dogs who actually are not so young but are of the small dog category. We are in a down sized home and though we have been here a while now still have to adjust to tighter spaces to move around in. Adding two small dogs who want to get front and center of me in the kitchen normally doesn’t hurt much…until it did!

Ever hopeful for scraps to fall, Hazel scooted directly in front of me as I was moving to put something in a corner cabinet. Toby was right near by. I did a quick double step to avoid stepping on Hazel and lost my footing…not so gracefully either. Down I went. Backwards. Head hitting the kitchen counter. Shoulder slamming the cabinet front, then the ceramic floor. How do football players sustain multiple tackles really?

Poor Hazel scrammed from the room to watch me from the living room couch. I like to think she was looking at me with eyes that asked me if I was ok. I do not know where Toby ran to hide. Marty helped me up and thankfully I did seem to be alright.

A few days after that, I heard of a challenge for exercise that only needs a small area, is aerobic and doesn’t take much time….JUMPING JACKS…well of course! Why didn’t I think of that sooner? Good old jumping jacks to get my heart rate up and burn the calories that try to linger. I completely forgot I had actually had that pretty significant body trauma just days before.

Beginning my jumping moves trying to just get to 25 that day, I was surprised to find I was sore. Wow! Really? But “I work out at the Y” I reminded myself. Trying again the next day was worse. I could feel my vertebrae slamming mid/upper back. Rib cage hurt. Even breathing hurt! Is there a disclaimer with jumping jacks for the over 65 crowd that I didn’t know about? Maybe not on their own but combined with a severe fall a few days prior probably so. Forsaking the jumping jacks for good I needed to find a chiropractor due to the horrible continuous pain.

It took submitting to regular visits, adjustments, stretches, icing, taping for support for 4 months to bring me back to better. And still some maintenance visits. So let me segue into a principle here. Something can happen if we get out of line with the principles in God’s word. We can get painfully into a place we never intended even if we thought we were doing something good.

There is a way that seems right unto a man, but it’s end is the way of death. Proverbs 14:12

We may make our plans, but God has the last word. You may think everything you do is right, but the Lord judges your motives. Ask the Lord to bless your plans, and you will be successful in carrying them out. Proverbs 16:1-3 ( I would add as a reminder to ask if your plans are part of His plans for you- He is the one who designed us for a purpose after all)

Thus he showed me, and behold, the Lord was standing by a vertical wall with a plumb line in his hand…From Amos 7:7 I believe scripture is a plumb line for us to keep us on the straight and narrow-in line.

Trouble does not necessarily mean we are “out of line”. Trouble comes in this life. It can possibly be our doing though. Either way it is worth a visit to our Divine Chiropractor for an adjustment.

God bless you!