"Accepting that the Lord has all controls was the biggest lesson. Just literally accepting that we don't have any control of what happens. We can accept and still go on with what we've got."

Words are important. That's how an Amish man in this video described having a hook for a hand, as a result of a sawmill accident in 1997. But just the way he structured the sentence was a lot more hopeful than I would've put it. I know because at first, I paraphrased, and then I realized it sounded bleak and sad somehow. When I wrote it down verbatim, it was more positive again. I used the phrase "what we've got left." The word "left" adds in almost a victimhood, a reminder that something was taken, whereas "what we've got" implies gratitude and an acknowledgement that we do have something. I worry so much about things I have absolutely no control over. If I can accomplish just one thing in life, I think I'd like it to be that. To simply stop worrying about things I cannot possibly control.