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“I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made” Psalm 139:14a
My right leg is stronger than my left, but together they’ve carried a crying toddler through an airport, and swum for miles in the pool. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. The nutrition app on my phone chides me for rarely hitting my Vitamin A goals and only occasionally meeting protein goals, but the food in my body takes me through days of counseling students, caring for a home and loving my family, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
My contacts lens prescription might be stronger, but my eyes can now pick now my daughter’s face from the farthest seat in the bleachers. I have orthotics in my shoes, seven types of lotion and three vitamins I sometimes remember to take, but I am fearfully and wonderfully made. My body, imperfect, but perfect too, is a wonder. It’s done what I need it to do – maybe not perfectly, but enough. God has made me perfectly and awesomely, fearfully and wonderfully. God has made me enough.
This message is excerpted from “Enough” by Susan K. Olson in the March 2018 Gather magazine. Today we commemorate John Wesley, 1791 and Charles Wesley, 1788, renewers of the church.