While completing some research for a women’s health study, I was struck by a phrase, a statement in my head that quickly altered the course and dialogue I was preparing, and so, I curiously jumped online to search for the formal, technical meaning of the word “sick”, and in contrast its polar-opposite. To my astonishment, I found there are a wealth of synonyms and contexts attached to its meaning:
Sick: 1. To be afflicted with ill health or disease; ailing; 2. To be deeply affected with some unpleasant feeling, as of sorrow, disgust or boredom; 3. To be mentally, morally, or emotionally deranged, corrupt, or unsound; AND- 4. dwelling on or obsessed with that which is gruesome, sadistic, ghoulish, or the like; morbid; to share a few.
You see, God, created and calls us to be a people of good health… of “wholeness”. – but in order to achieve, to truly achieve that wholeness, we need to plunge as profoundly (or more so) into the Spirit {spirituality}, as we do the physical and emotional, because it is there that true Guidance can seize our core and propel us into a renewing of the mind; it is there that God whispers His abounding love and restoration into our lives – And whether you can personally (or willingly) apply or relate to any of the above mentioned definitions of “sick”; the bottom is this: it is hard, no, impossible to hear spiritual messages in a body that is sick.
Health and wellness information can overwhelm us. Insights form areas such as neuroscience open our world to possibilities and more connections. We are, more often than not, left confused… knowing more, yet understanding less. As a lover of truth, I have learned to apply science and empirical research, and as such, avow and maintain this one truth: That we are all in need of a Counselor a source of personal guidance, a Savior.
I found this excerpt on a social media page, and am not entirely certain who the author is, but found it the ideal content to share in conclusion:
“When everyone is too busy for you, your love language is “quality time”;
When there’s no one there to encourage you, your love language is “words of affirmation”;
When there’s no one around to help you, your love language is “acts of service”;
When there’s no one there to hold you, your love language is “physical touch”.
Your love language is known to God – That’s how He speaks to you.
Look and listen for it, and rest assured that… He speaks your language.”
Wake, pray, SLAY!
Maddie Jomolca
health. faith. art. life. 