Everything in our lives is about healing

6th August 2012   ·   0 Comments

By Fr. Jerome LeDoux
Contributing Columnist
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“Everything” is often a lazy word used in meaningless, blanket questions such as, “How is everything today?” Obviously, it is not about to happen that “everything” in one’s life, not to mention “everyone” in one’s life is doing fine at any given time.

However, when we say, “Every­thing in our life is about healing,” we mean exactly that – everything! There is no aspect of our physical, neurological, emotional, mental, social or spiritual being that does not need constant healing every day, every hour of our lives. We will review the astounding biological basis for that a bit further on.

One could call our Saturday vigil Mass the one score Mass, for that is the usual number of attendees, and so it was last Saturday. But on the previous Saturday, 44 souls attended as providential healing supports to Joseph Dumas for his daughter Erytta recovering from a gunshot to the head, and his son Robert killed by a pickup truck.

The 15th Sunday reading from Mark 6:30-34 featured Jesus telling his apostles, “Come away by yourselves to a deserted place and rest awhile!” Just as we seek it, so many people were seeking cash one loan sg healing that Jesus and the apostles did not even have time to eat. And when a tough guy like Jesus calls it a day, it is high time to head for the hills.

As ministers and caregivers, the apostles were casting out demons, anointing the sick and curing them for so many hours that the caregivers were about to crash. We know that caregivers often burn out or die long before the person they are attending. “Love your neighbor as yourself” has much more than a passing meaning for dedicated caregivers.

Ever the holistic teacher and healer, Jesus was showing the apostles how to take care of the most important part of healing – precluding the necessity for healing by taking deliberate steps to avoid getting sick, weak or suffering dreaded burnout. Of course, folks who tout the holistic way nowadays stole it from Jesus by peeking into the Gospels.

We soon become ineffective and useless as ministers/caregivers unless we make sure that we are healthy physically, mentally, emotionally, socially and spiritually. Taking care of Number One—ourselves—is simply not an option but a necessity. And this happens to be the healthy, cash advance in lenoir city tn guiltless kind of selfishness that we must all indulge.

Unfortunately, most of us are crisis-activated, meaning that virtually the only time we are really alert and resolute is during episodes of emergency and disaster. We are in a state of torpor, almost suspended animation, until something un­thinkable explodes in our faces, no doubt causing terrorists to say, “Thanks for doing the mass killings for us!”

Our headline-mentality is also phony, curiously devouring all the details of an Aurora, Colorado, The Dark Knight Rises premiere slaughter, analyzing ad nauseam with psychiatrists and social workers, and preaching all kinds of sermons about probable causes, family and societal deficiencies, gun control and red flag trouble indicators.

Above all, Jesus warned his apostles against negative stress, public enemy number one in the life of each of the seven billion-plus inhabitants of the world. Most of our physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual evils emanate directly from the toxic mix of bad things and insufferable people that creates negative stress daily from hour to hour.

That our whole life in all its details is in constant need of healing begins with our body that is composed of best in Lexington-Fayette Kentucky cash advance some 100 trillion cells. Each minute, 300 million of these cells die and must be replaced. If we consume the healthiest food and drink, the new cells will be healthy; otherwise, they will be wild cells that are pre-cancerous. The choice is ours.

Strenuous exercise kills additional millions of cells that must be replaced, thus greatly accelerating the above-stated process and, because of resistance, creating new cells stronger than the ones they replaced. Thus, even cancerous cells can be replaced.

This wondrous building block pa­radigm is the linchpin that marries everything that we are physically, mentally, emotionally, socially and spiritually. “You should pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body,” said first-century AD Latin poet Juvenal, a pagan.

Jesus concurs in John 15, “I am the True Vine; you are the branches… If you remain in me and I in you, you shall produce much fruit.” Being sibling branches in the True Vine is the medium for our healing each other by the power of the True Vine.

This article was originally published in the August 6, 2012 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper