‘A broken ankle taught me about the goodness and closeness of God’

Author Sara Hagerty asks: ’What if your greatest weaknesses - the areas of your life you resent the most, the places where you feel the most overextended and unfulfilled - are your doorway to rich intimacy with God? What if your limitations were, in fact, your greatest gift?’

Sometimes, God uses our “smaller” stories – the ones that cast shadows on parts of our lives – to reach us and teach us more than the ones that eclipse our entire heart.

My broken ankle is one of those smaller stories, speaking a much larger reality to my life. It was a Tuesday in April when spring felt inviting, rather than biting cold as it did the day before. Green was the backdrop of my morning run, my earbuds in such that I couldn’t hear the birds, but I could see the trees pregnant with life, ready to burst. I’d run the same route for years, every morning at 8 o’clock; I’m a creature of habit.