Names changed...but my gracefulness has not

Many wonderful things have changed over the past month.  Michael & I were married in June (YAY!) I thoroughly enjoyed the summer relaxing with my husband and setting up our apartment. We've settled into the rhythm (and sometimes disarray) of newlywed life, got a new kitten named Samson, completed my name change and started back to school. 

Though many things have change recently it seems my grand ability to make a boob out of myself has not. If you've known me long, you know I'm clumsy.  Like the silly little third grade girl that falls in the lunchroom and spills all her soup clumsy. One would hope this would fade with age but it seems that my disasters just keep getting bigger.

Michael and I were enjoying a pleasant bike ride tonight through a quiet subdivision near our apartment. The evening was beautiful, the humidity was low, and it felt great to be outdoors.  Things were going smoothly when all of the sudden I simultaneously hit a slick patch of mud and a ridge in the roadway. The result is my tire spinning out of control, my hands skidding on the pavement as I fall, and my left leg being pinned under the weight of my bike and my body. See pictures below.

And the whole time all I can think is ... am I really surprised? No. It's not that I expect these type of things to happen. But they just do and I am never surprised. Tonight though I don't loathe my lack of grace or bemoan the fact that I will never outgrow my clumsiness...but I praise my God. No matter how inept I may feel in my day to day life, this will never change His love for me. And it will never change His truths that I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me (Philippians 4:13)

So I feel incredibly blessed tonight to have a wonderful husband to take care of me, love me through my faults, and encourage me to see myself the way God sees me. So Honey, I thank God for you!