Anyone who struggles with chronic pain has searched for the silver bullet–that magic elixir that will end the incessant suffering and return one’s life to normal. If we search for God’s prescription, however, we will soon discover that our silver bullet is not quick fixes and magic cures. Instead, God’s prescription is a relationship with a person, Jesus Christ. In Him we have assurance of a spiritually fruitful life no matter what our circumstances may be.

I remember that there was a time when people who talked to themselves were to be avoided - the general feeling being that there was “something wrong” with them. Now I laugh because I routinely see people walking through the world totally alone and yet carrying on very animated conversations. Very strange - until I look closely and see an earpiece nestled in their ear. I’ve actually gone as far as answering some of these lonesome talkers, thinking that they were asking me a question!

All day I have been out of sorts - snapping a people, yelling at other drivers, unable to even think coherently. I blamed it on the weather, the messy house, the absent husband and children - I blamed everything my eyes saw for the sadness and irritability that was becoming an actual physical sensation, not just a “mind thing.” Even my Bible study didn’t seem to help. I read through the third chapter of Joshua, one of my favorites. I carefully noted in my spiritual journal the miracle of faith…