That and sin wears us down. My cancer is a byproduct of sin. Does that mean “who sinned, me or my parents?” … no. BUT… we surround ourselves with chemicals, in our foods, around our homes, we get bloated thinking we KNOW… and our bodies take the toll for it.

Try getting a tomato at Kroger with any vitamins in it anymore… I’m sure you of all people know what I’m talking about.

That and labeling every malaise we know with a new disorder, when it’s just SIN. Repent (truly) and let Him heal you. I’ve never NOT seen it work when someone took God truly at His word. Sometimes it took time. Others, instant. That doesn’t mean my mother (who also has cancer) is in sin because of her illness, it just means sin touched her… and here we are…

It might not be the direct result of an individual’s sin… sometimes its societies that messes us up.

Regardless… He IS Jehova-Rapha.

In Bene D’s defense, life is just trying sometimes. And while those trials can be connected all the way back to the Garden, sometimes it’s not the direct result of an individual’s sin that causes hardship. Anyone who has cared for an elderly parent or a younger person disabled by an accident can tell you that.

No doubt. Even now I am trying to deal with the natural physical outcomes of prolonged mal-ease. The natural and the spiritual aren’t disconnected. As a man thinks in his heart, so he is. The battle rages; people get wounded, some seriously.