The whole world struggles with disease. Medical insurance, government funding for healthcare, and public health plans are high on political agendas. Often, the greatest fear is not death itself, but the suffering and illness before death. Then one hears of someone who passed away in their sleep or was suddenly struck down, and secretly hopes that this will…
Tag: healing
279. There is a prophet
The value of a story can never be underestimated. So many of us are the product of words, spoken and written. Shelves full of books and the thoughts of others in sound are the colour and richness of our lives. Good memories of childhood often revolve around storytime—the good ones and the bad ones, the questions that arise…
266. The crucible of distress
It is in the quiet crucible of your personal private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God’s greatest gifts are given. (Whintley Phipps) I wrote down this quote while watching a Gospel music concert. The singer who said it sounded as if he knew what he was talking about—in a moment, his heart was…
261. Just get over it!
Harsh words. As it stands there, the title of this piece is a very unsympathetic and negative statement, usually uttered with an impatient attitude and without regard for the heartbreak of the person on the receiving end. From the mouth of a fellow human, it can strike a wound for the recipient, atop the pain that already…
240. Miracle timing
I might hear a deep sigh right now. Yes, I am writing about time – again. I will always be fascinated by the numbers of time and all their special names – seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years with seasons and semesters, decades, centuries, eras and ages. They are written into our history books – Ancient history, the Middle…
237. Feet of faith
Let us linger a bit longer in the words of Habakkuk – words of gold for all times and ages. Habakkuk moves his thought-horizons from threatening political upheaval to a heavenly perspective with eternal applications. The effect of his “new” thinking is a joyful praise-song and an inspired spirit that stirs faith and builds trust in God for…
155. Binding bonds in your brain.
The world around us is made up of contracts. Formal and informal agreements rule our daily life. Even friendship is an informal contract. One does not go to a lawyer to draw up the terms of friendship, but certain silent conditions apply to the relationship we call friendship. Loyalty, love, support in difficult times, general back up…
116. Getting healed – the package deal.
The human body is a wonderful thing. We are aware of our own bodies since the day we are born. Providing for the body is the main concern of parents of a new born. Getting a baby clothed and fed, changed and bathed are the most important care activities of the day. Slowly it…
115. Born blind – yes, me too!
It’s true. Really. If you cannot see, you are blind. So what can you see? Yes, I know the song. I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and you And I think to myself what a wonderful world I also see those things, hearing the “instantly recognizable gravelly…
104. An old, old story for the new year.
Let us go back. To our birth? No further back. To the time of our forefathers? Even further back. Well okay, to the time of Jesus on the earth because we are studying the book of John. No, wrong again. Let us go back to the beginning. The beginning of what? The beginning of everything….
Pebbles of Perpetuity 