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Serenity prayer helps us accept changes in life as we grow older | Tompkins – Tallahassee Democrat

I found myself praying this prayer recently after taking my granddaughter Tayla roller skating at the skating rink in August. This was our last outing together before she went to seventh grade this year.

Two months later I’m still praying the “Serenity Prayer” as I suffer shoulder pain from a fall that I had at the skating rink.

It was a great outing as I love to skate, and I have been skating since I was 8 years old. My stepdad was a deputy sheriff who worked as a security guard at a skating rink on the weekends. I always jumped in the car and went with him. So when Tayla asked me to take her skating I was delighted. I was looking forward to spending time with her while getting much needed exercise.

We went to the skating rink, and everything was going well as memories of gliding and sliding across the floor all came flooding back to me. The only difference was this was the first time I ever skated in a mask. After skating for a while Tayla and I decided to go for refreshments, and I told her I would meet her on the other side of the rink.

On my way I was having so much fun until I decided to skate backwards. I turned around OK but when I was coming off the floor I tried to spin around forward and lost my balance.

As I fell my right knee and left shoulder crashed into the skating floor real hard. Tayla was looking at me and I didn’t want her to be upset so I kind of smiled, well more like grimaced. Thankfully I was able to stand up and leave the skating floor. Although I was hurting I talked with Tayla as she ate her snack, and we even went back around one more time.

Needless to say the next day my knee was swollen, and my shoulder was aching. After going to the doctor and having X-rays on my knee and shoulder I found out that nothing was broken.

It was just trauma that caused the swelling and aches. Praise the Lord for that!

Tayla and I are both turning another year older this month and while she is just picking up her skates, I am putting mine down, or at least no more skating backwards. That’s the cycle of life and I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

Rosalind Y. Tompkins received a doctorate of humanities degree from the Five Fold Ministry Theological University in 2012. Find out more at https://ift.tt/2AvKe9N.

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