Ammon was in a car accident about 15 years ago when he was first learning to drive. He rolled the car and wrapped it around a telephone pole. He really shouldn't have walked away but, he did. He did need to have hand surgery to reattach some severed tendons though. He has had no problems with it since and it healed with only a couple scars from the incisions.
Well, just a few days ago, he dug out a piece of glass from his hand!! He said for years he could feel something there under his skin and it would irritate him. In the last few months the spot would ooze puss and then scab over. He kept picking at it and then one night he squeezed out some glass!! The picture shows the red spot and the glass there on the piece of tape laid across his hand.
He immediately made an analogy to repentance.. where you need to forgive to completely heal and that pushing things down only make them fester. Pretty good, I thought. He even used that at one of his weekly groups he holds at the jail. The guys were pretty impressed.
4 comments:
oh my goodness I can't believe this one!! what the heck--how big was the glass? (can't really tell, against the tape)? Did he know it was there? Seriously freaky that this piece of glass had been in his hand for 15 years!!
Oh my goodness! I can't believe he had that all these years. I certainly remember the accident (pretty vividly). I remember having small pieces of glass coming out of my face for a month but definitely not for 15 years! Great analogy though.
Eeeeee! Yikes! That's crazy, and kinda cool, in a weird sort of way. Hope there's no more where that came from. Must have been a small piece of glass to have been missed by the surgeon.
Well conceived by Ammon and related here by Melanie. I work with Ammon at the jail. He is a remarkable man. I went to the funeral of Abigail a week ago. Both Ammon and Melanie spoke. They have tremendous spiritual strength. The event was the highlight of my day.
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