Healing

Healing is a wonderful phenomena. God is so cool that He thought about this as He created living things. When a plant looses a leaf or a piece of itself, new growth appears. There are certain creatures that can loose parts of thier bodies and they will grow back! Amazing! As humans, our bodies can sustain horrible, life threatening injuries, and we heal. So cool!

I have been thinking a lot about this in the last few days. My mom had her surgery yesterday and we are all pleased with the outcome. She has a large section of her femur (thigh) bone that has not healed in two years. Her doctor has tried many different techniques, but this bone has been very stubborn and seems to refuse to heal. This time he tried a new grafting material that has been very successful recently and he has high hopes that it will work in promoting growth - healing - this time. He also secured some screws and hardware in her artifical hip, transferred some muscles around to help ease some of her pain and allow for further healing. Miraculously, when she woke up from the surgery, she could feel a difference already. Her toes pointed straight ahead for the first time in two years. She will have to do some work, but the healing is taking place.

And I really gave serious thought about the human body, how fasinating it is, and how we heal.

The retreat that my mom and I attended over the weekend, prior to the surgery, was about healing. The theme was Healing the Spirit. It was a different aspect of healing, but another fasinating phenomena as well. As humans, our spirits experience hurts and wounds that a doctor cannot fix. It would be nice if we could just allow the "spirit doctor" to admit us to the hospital and do a graft of our spirit, tighten a little bit of spiritual hardware, and transfer around a few of our hurts.

But we do have God. He is a Healer. But we must open ourselves up to Him, we must trust Him and we have to allow Him to work in us. We have our own work to do in this kind of healing also. We have to be willing to self evaluate, admit where we are wrong, and let God mend our spirits.

The way He created us is wonderful. I am grateful that He gave us hope and that He made a way for us to heal, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It is beautiful to be witness to.

May I allow Him to heal me and pray for Him to heal others. All the glory is His!