Kindness

I am trying to be more kind in my day to day dealings with people.  I am uncertain how I am doing, but I am trying.

One of the ways that I am trying is by listening better.  I need to hear what people are really saying and allow those spoken emotions become real to me.

I have had a couple of conversations lately that I still feel like I am talking toooooo much!!!!!

I need to be more attentive to the needs of the person that I am with.

This brings me to a story that I read last night, written by a medical physician.  He was speaking to the fact that sometimes physical pain is really emotional pain that is being made manifest in our physical bodies and that really nothing is wrong with the body, but the pain is real.  He began to listen to his patients and let them talk, without prescribing a bunch of pills or what not, because he figured this connection out, this was after he had done every test to determine what was wrong and they came back negative every time, the person was fine.

I have met many people who are like this, seemingly healthy and yet not healthy.  I am grateful for the ability that I have to take things to the LORD in prayer.  But there was a season when I was angry with God and I was sick the entire year.  My body could not regulate itself and I even ended up in the ER room.  After I realized I was angry at God and admitted it, i recovered and my body did regulate itself.  I think that is why I have been so blessed with good health, because my spirit is good.  This is not to say that everyone who is sick is not well in there spirit, because that would be untrue.  Job was well in his spirit and very sick.  I am just saying that i think when someone suffers from chronic pain or other malfunctions of the body, we should consider the possibility that something is not well in the soul.  And until the individual is willing to address the issue that is the real problem, grief, anger whatever the pain will continue to manifest itself somewhere.  I think some people can deal with the physical problems easier than the soul problems, because then we are not weak, we are just sick, and someone can figure that out surely and fix it through our modern medicine.  So many of us take medicine for issues that the LORD can and wants to heal in us.  I know He has done it for me.  And for that I am super grateful.