The past few days I have been away from the office and the walking desk doing some incredibly hard work.  My brother-in-law and I have been working to put a new roof on his Mom’s sunroom.  It turned into a a fairly large job and I appreciated my friend Doug coming to bail us out with his expertise in roofing and my other brother-in-law coming to help out when we were all running out of energy.  But I’m not here to talk about roofing today…

My keyboard typing, mouse clicking hands aren’t used to the rigors of the scraper, hammer, and shovel.  At the end of the day I had a few blisters.  But here is the cool part…no…the amazing part.  What was a blister last night, turned into a tough piece of skin today.  Not only had my body healed but it had become even tougher.  How cool is that?!?

I wanted to find out a bit more about blisters and this amazing defense that was created as a part of my body.  The blister I had was a friction blister that was caused by repetitive motion that irritated the skin.  These are most common on the hands and feet.  As the skin becomes irritated, the outer layer of skin is released from the deeper layers of skin in an effort to reduce friction and prevent damage.

The clear fluid in a blister is the AMAZING part of a blister.  The clear fluid is serum or plasma that is released by the red blood cells in the impacted area.  This fluid actually helps the body to speed up the repair process in building new skin cells and connective tissue.  That is why the experts tell you not to pop a blister if the fluid is not creating painful pressure.  Blood in a blister is evidence of damage in the deeper tissues and pus in a blister is sign of an infection.

How cool is that?!? I know most of us don’t enjoy getting blisters or checking them out up close and personal, but this well designed defense mechanism of our body is an excellent credit to the Creator who designed us.

Of course we can best learn about God by reading His word.  Here is Dinnertime Devotional 26, an emotional one as Joseph and his family are reunited… Dinnertime Devotionals 26