No. 69. Demons and Friends

I was sick and you took care of me. Matthew 25:36

What evil demon enters to disrupt and destroy this perfect human body, more complex than mathematics, more intricate than fine lace, more rhythmic than sun, moon, and earth making time, more harmonious than symphonies? How dare corruption cause such pain and suffering of us gods? Why does this temple corrode? What purpose illness; whose fault disease; or could this affliction be meaningless and void? Impossible!

This shouldn’t be, this mustn’t be. Where is the medicine more powerful than malevolence come to rescue me? What baptism will restore? What exorcism will purge these demons?

Who will annihilate this violator of human dignity and remove the carcass of it from our midst, and finally ...when? When will a friend bring me candlelight to dispel this darkness? Who will come to restore this holy temple of mine? I crave help. Healing is never a solitary affair. From where doth my Pentecost come?

Look! Do I see a light-bearing brother drawing neigh? Succor has arrived! Rejoice my soul, the body will be comforted, rejoice my soul, the body will be healed! She grabs my outstretched hand and walks with me slowly down this rocky path back to perfection.

Let us be forever more, healer and healed, comforter and comforted united in the victory of eternal health in the kingdom of God and until then, in the medicine of compassion!

“Then the king will say to comforters and healers, ‘Come you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.’” You made it!