Journal Entry #8

Describe a past situation where you didn’t establish a “guardrail” but wish you did.

When I was in fourth grade, I had a surgery with 20 stitches because I didn’t establish a guardrail.

This guardrail was physical (not emotional/mental), and it was that I shouldn’t become too excited during games and lose myself. I was in church that day, and we were playing mini golf. A golf ball went over the fence, and everybody rushed to see it. Excited, I ran, not noticing a dome shaped sewer cover on the ground, then tripped. The fence had an extra screw that was sticking up which it hit my glasses and my glasses cut my right eyebrow. I immediately bled heavily and was rushed to the hospital.

I realized that if God hadn’t given me glasses, I would have been blinded in my right eye and it would have hurt quite a lot. God, in saving my eye, seeped a message and guardrail that I should control myself while having fun, not becoming overly excited and losing my self-control.

After my surgery and 20 stitches, the experience didn’t hurt as much as I expected it to be, and I now know that God always protects us, and through mistakes he teaches us to establish guardrails against doing anything foolish.