Random Healing

Concentrate on a dilemma with me for a moment. How many times over the course of the last week, month or year have you heard someone talk about the need for another person or a situation to be healed? How many times does the media alert us concerning a nation pulled apart by conflict? A family or group by internal strife? Or we hear that someone has a dread disease or is in a horrible predicament? In many of those cases where the speaker offers a solution they discuss the need for systemic healing.

A person’s mind or body must heal. One step at a time. One part at a time. We are told that the family or nation must come together under one set of healing auspices or another. People and circumstances need to be brought into play to help them make their necessary corrections. Countries ought to lay down their weapons of words and war. Their peoples should be given the freedom to return to normal life. Whatever that may be in the gospel according to us.

Pundits proclaim that everything must be done according to the rules and regulations to which they personally adhere. We have to work according to previously established order. Working inside the rules following appropriate procedures and policies is how things get done.

And on and on the pundits pontificate.

If we believe that only previously approved systemic healing will remediate a situation, we ignore the recuperative powers of random healing.

Contrary to the situations listed above, we also hear of situations where doctors are waiting for a family to give permission to declare a comatose person dead. Having worked in medical settings, I can assure you that sometimes ignoring mere physicians might be the wisest thing one can do. Hospitals and physicians are under government and insurance constraints. They want the room and resources for another patient. Never mind the right of a patient or caregiver to file a complaint against them with the hospital and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. They are afraid insurance or Medicare will refuse to pay if a patient is kept too long.

Institutions and physicians are taking care of their bottom line.

Having worked with families in that situation I promise you that doctors are mere mortals. An eighty year old friend of mine was put in the hospital with a supposedly fatal heart attack. His wife asked me to come in because he wasn’t supposed to last the night. My friend wanted to see me. I walked into a room full of angels. My friend and his wife chatted with me for a good while. I prayed silently while we talked. The next day when I called the hospital he was no longer a patient. I called his wife. She told me he was home, resting on the sofa. The doctors had given him a bottle of pills and sent him home. They decided he would live.

Which he did for several more years.

This was not the result anticipated in medical manuals. It did not follow the typical pattern of systemic healing.

It is our responsibility to ourselves to always keep in the front of our minds that there is evidence to suggest that pundits, doctors and other know-it-alls are not the Creator.

The Creator moves messily and randomly through creation.

Random healing of persons and nations happens in our lives every day. We are healed at random in ways large and small every day.

In life we are constantly given opportunities to look for the magic in miracles, not obstacles. The experts present us with one problem after the next. We find our ways through those problems by listening to voices we don’t even know exist.

Flipping a switch and instantly having a light turn on is a miracle to me. An even better miracle is how scientists are using their knowledge of heirloom foods to return us to feeding more people healthily worldwide. Not only are scientists discovering how to feed more people — not a mean feat in itself — but by returning to heirloom fruits, vegetables and grains intermixed with what was known, but people are eating better foods. Using modern scientific methods mixed with the knowledge of the ages improves all of our health.

It’s not cheap. It’s not easy. But as those methods and foods are spread across countries, we’re simultaneously beginning to learn how to take better care of our planet.

There are some obvious changes that we could make around the world to preserve our planets. Imagine the East and Gulf Coasts of America preserved by building a series of dikes from Texas to Maine. Just as the Netherlanders have spent centuries and untold amounts of money protecting their lands, America would be protecting its cities, farms and marshlands. It would take the madness and ingenuity of people wanting to randomly heal themselves and their country one bit at a time.

Doctors and scientists have long sought the cure for everything from the common cold to the most complex diseases. Humans have looked for ways to protect themselves from floods and erosion.

Imagine yourself being the person who, without forethought or need for self-glorification, randomly finds a way to solve the world’s ills. Starting with a stubbed toe.

That is the person who listens to their better angels.