Recuperation

Last week when watering the lawn my feet got tangled up in the hoses and I still have strained muscles and bruised hands and knees. The fall called for ice packs, Advil and Arnica lotion. I’m now wondering how much balm and time and it took for Paul to recuperate from all his physical ails. Paul said, “I have worked much harder, been in prison more frequently, been flogged more severely, and been exposed to death again and again. Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, I spent a night and a day in the open sea, have been constantly on the move” (2 Cor 11:23b-26a NIV).