Sickness
Sometimes Leads to Depression
I have a dear friend who hurt his hand and hasn’t been
able to play his instrument for almost six months, a musical instrument he
touched every day. His arthritic condition in his hand may take him out of the
music business completely. He is heartbroken and depressed about it.
Not even in the same ballpark: I had a stomach virus last
week, forcing me to eat Jell-o and drink chicken broth for three days. Now,
this week, I have some kind of chest congestion that started out with a sore
throat and has led into a cough. I just came home from a drugstore run and
bought out CVS at 10 p.m. I hate being sick.
Just two weeks ago I had been bragging that I hadn’t
gotten a cold, cough, or flu for over a year. Here I am now with a two-week run
of crud. I broke into tears this evening, because I have important things I
need to accomplish this week for other people, and I could barely hug my
partner when he held me while I cried, because I had so little strength. I had
been asleep from 4:30 to 9:00 p.m. Now I’m up and everyone is asleep. At least I have a little will
to write my blog. That leaves me with my chin up about a quarter of an inch.
Sickness weakens the body. But it also weakens the will.
When your will is weak, then depression isn’t too far off.
If you have an inclination toward depression, be careful when you find yourself
ill, because you could fall into a slump and give yourself a big ass pity
party, as I am now.
I proclaim, all the time, that God has everything in
control. My prayer every morning is that God please take care of me as I do the
work put in front of me. God keep me prosperous so that I can afford to be
compassionate and giving. Any heart who prays these prayers and gets sick would
wonder what the heck God is doing. This is the “Why Me?” syndrome. And I got
it.
Metaphysics is the idea that all things happen for a
reason beyond our knowledge and “out from” the physical, which is the etymology
of the word. But, I have to wonder if all things can be translated into a
metaphysical output. Is sitting in the same room with someone sick and catching
a virus the same as getting an arthritic condition to preclude an artist from
making music or sculpting? It doesn’t feel like it’s in the same realm of
spiritual activity.
I’ll get over my sickness in a week or so. I know that.
But a disease like cancer or MS can take a great part of someone’s life away
quickly. Aren’t these diseases more likely to be messages from spirit?
Well, I’ll tell you, many people struggle with this
question and get in big trouble blaming the person for their sickness. Religion
is rife with answers to these hard questions, when I truly don’t believe there
is a perfect answer. No ONE person knows the heart or will of God for anyone.
We don’t know that spiritual law precludes physical law? Or does physical law
preclude spiritual?
This would be the question at hand. I sit in a room with a
person carrying a virus. He coughs on me. If my immune system is weak, I’m likely
to get that disease, just by virtue of physical law. Does God have anything to
do with that process?
Spiritual law is states that “what we believe in mind, we
create.” I can’t say that I believe in sickness, but I understand the concept
written above. I boasted about not being sick, and some would even go so far to
say I put a whammy on my own self when I boasted. Did I knock on wood after I
said? I didn’t.
But really? Can it come to that spiritually? I mean, I got
the stomach virus because I stayed up all night helping my mother when she had
the virus. I got this current crud because someone hugged me who should have
kept her distance.
Believe me here, there is no good answer to the question
of sickness and the will of God, except to say all is in its right order. I
would be better to suffer the consequence of the physical law and rest my mind
than to blame my sickness on the will of my mind. Both my mind and body need to
rest right now, which is why I’m going to bed. And I’m putting my over-thinking
mind to bed as well.
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