I live with a great deal of physical pain every day. I’ve had several major spinal surgeries and am trying to pray away another one. I rarely feel sorry for myself, but my pain, like your own pain or your own circumstances, can be discouraging from time to time.
Pills rarely help me so I don’t take them, but let me tell you one thing that helps me more than any prescription:
Perspective.
Yesterday while doing my chaplaincy work @ Emory Hospital, I was scheduled to visit 14 patients to offer them encouragement, prayer, and a positive presence. Here is a quick glimpse of who I saw:
- A middle-aged drug addict who was not being helped by the pain medicine he desperately needed because he had his leg amputated the day before.
- A 26 year old woman whose foot had to be amputated because of diabetic complications.
- A frightened grandmother who was breathing well for the first time in years after just having a lung transplant.
- A very morbid woman with an aggressive cases of kidney disease and pancreatic cancer.
Hear my heart – AS I WALKED OUT OF THE HOSPITAL – my back still ached, my legs still hurt, my feet were still sore – but I felt that way – AS I WALKED OUT OF THE HOSPITAL.
Would a shift in perspective make your life better? Try it today and let me know!
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This is why I love you brother – you are out there ministering.
I don’t agree with you all your politics, I don’t agree with your launch strategy or even your style of ministry, I don’t get into the political activism stuff – but who cares.
You are serving our Savior in the trenches and I love you for it.
Hey Man!
Thanks for your kind words. The truth is, bro, that what we agree about is FAR more important than what we disagree about. Hope you are doing well.
Shaun King & Crew
An old proverb states, ” I cried because I had no shoes…until I saw the man that had no feet”