When you are emotionally, physically, or spiritually weary: stop, look, and find anyone or anything that helps you to say thank you. Being thankful is good medicine for whatever ails us.
03860 – Thankfulness: Good Medicine
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03786 – “Lord, the Air Smells Good Today”
Lord, the air smells good today, straight from the mysteries within the inner courts of God. A grace like new clothes thrown across the garden, free medicine for everybody. The trees in their prayer, the birds in praise, the first blue violets kneeling. Whatever came...
03001 – Much in the Window; Nothing in the Room
We have bigger houses, but smaller families;More conveniences, but less time;We have more degrees, but less sense;More knowledge, but less judgment;More experts, but more problems;More medicines, but less healthiness;We've been all the way to the moon and back,but...
02712 – Acknowledgement is Medicine
Acknowledgement is the best medicine we have. It doesn't seem like it should do anything, but when somebody is in pain and you look at them and you say, "I see you," that's medicine.
02472 – Protection and Participation
[written during the Bubonic plague of the 1500s] I shall ask God mercifully to protect us. Then I will fumigate, purify the air, administer medicine, and take medicine. I shall avoid places and persons where my presence is not needed in order to not become...
01877 – Some Arguments are D.O.A.
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
01797 – Not Worth Losing Yourself
The most important lesson I've learned over this past year is don't let anyone make you cruel. No matter how badly you want to give the world a taste of its own bitter medicine, it's never worth losing yourself.
01522 – Not All Crazy & Hopeless On the Same Day
Maybe more than ever before in my lifetime, my friends and I are aware of our brokenness and the deep crazy, the desperation for light, hope, food, and medicine for the poor. What helps is that we are not all crazy and hopeless on the same day.
00973 – The Greatest Disease in the West Today
The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for...
00045 – Practicing Dying
When I was a medical school professor, I invited my students to view their own experiences of sickness and medical care as a way to empathize with their patients’ experiences. Like them, we can prepare for our dying by “practicing” dying in response to situations of...