Senses and Memory and Being Blessed

It's amazing to me the way our bodies work so well. So many processes are going on to keep us alive and to help us move, talk, feel, and react yet we aren't consciously thinking about these things.

I am fascinated by our senses and our memory. It amazes me that I can see something completely random and it remind me of something from my childhood or past that I never recalled until that moment. Last night and today I have been smelling something in my kitchen. I don't know what the smell is. It's not really a good or bad smell, but I just can't figure it out. The thing is, I think it smells exactly the way my grandmother's house used to smell. Of course before this I could never have described or thought about this smell, but now I can't stop thinking about it. I can't stop going back in my mind to being at my grandmother's house and smelling this smell. This is amazing to me....being able to recall things like that subconsciously without thinking about it. How does that happen?

God created us so intricately and so amazingly. He designed us in a way that is so complex. The first time that I thought about this was when I had knee surgery and then broke my leg. It really taught me how so many things are going on in our bodies that we don't even think about....until they go wrong. I had never thought about the fact that my knees could bend, or support my weight, or allow me to walk or run across the room. I never thought about the fact that I have this to be thankful for every day. How interesting it is to me that the time that I thought about it , of course, was when it wasn't working properly and was interfering with my ability to go about my life. That is such a "fleshly" thing for us to do. When things don't go our way or when things aren't going perfectly for us (in our opinions) then all of a sudden we are devastated about it. Since that time in my life I have tried to remember to be grateful and thankful and realize how blessed I am that most of the time my body is working properly and that God is taking care of me and my family. I try to also remind myself (and my children) that God didn't promise us these things and that we need to remember that God is the one that allows us to be blessed and comfortable and live our lives as good as we do. I try to remember that things may or may not always be the way that they are. I try to remember that no matter what the situation is that I'm in or what the condition of my body and life is, God is still God no matter what. There are so many things that God didn't promise us and doesn't have to do for us - yet he does. Isn't that amazing and fascinating?