Pain Management

As many of you know, I have broken a bone in my foot. It is the pinky toe bone, but the broken part is actually within my foot. I know it doesn't really make sense but you can be sure it makes a lot of pain. I have learned several things from this whole experience that I honestly couldn't have learned any other way. 
I learned that just learning your lesson doesn't free you from the lasting and painful consequences of your actions. No matter how many people I can tell not to do what I did. No matter how much I profess I was wrong. I will still have to suffer the consequences of the stupidity I allowed. Of course, God could miraculously heal my toe and still might. 
I learned that you can always be thankful for something. This helps me to deal with the pain. I think to myself well this doesn't hurt as bad as this other time. This doesn't hurt as bad as what it must feel like to be going through what that person is going through. At that time I am thankful that I am only experiencing what I am.
I learned that it really is true that God will not put on you more than you can bear. I will admit to you that I am historically a terrible patient. If I am not feeling well, in the past I have been known to be moody, irritable, and full of complaints. The happy go lucky person from normal times is out the door. However, it doesn't have to be that way. I can praise God in more situations than the ones where I feel perfectly healthy. That is hard to remember at all instances but praise the Lord that it  is brought to the front of my mind again and again. 
It drives me absolutely insane that I have to sit down and not be able to do everything that I want to do. But as in the verse at the heading of this page says, I must learn to be content in all things. So this is my prayer this Christmas break, that I might be content in the situation where I currently sit-literally, off my broken toe.