I'm Not Built for Gymnastics

When I was in the 4th grade, two of my neighborhood friends and I decided we would all start gymnastics. For some unknown reason I missed the first class. I remember not having the uniform yet. Maybe that was it. As soon as my friends came back from class we all met in my front yard and they wanted to teach me what they learned in class that day. As we sat in a triangle in the grass, stretching, one of the girls looked at me and said, "You're just not built for gymnastics." I was devastated. Was it true? I believed it was. That night as I sat on the couch relating the conversation to my mom, my dad looked over from his chair and asked why we couldn't get a piano and have me take piano lessons. That sounded great to me. Oh, what a life changing event. Now as an adult I see that particular moment in my life as monumental to who I am today. What if I had stuck with gymnastics? What if I had never taken piano lessons? Horrors! I can't even imagine! I think back over the thousands of hours I have spent playing the piano and singing and cannot even comprehend not being able to do that. I now thank God that He did not build me for gymnastics. I know that He built me for music. I have absolutely no doubt of that. So now whenever I am frustrated with my body and how it isn't responding to eating right and exercising, I am reminded of Psalm 103 as it says, "Praise the lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits - who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. His precious gift to me might be that I am not built like a gymnast. I'm totally okay with that beautiful benefit from Him.