Healing and Christianity - A Book Review

Here is a Christian perspective on the connection between medicine and psychology in making the mind, body and spirit whole again.    


"From biblical times to the present, this is a comprehensive and reliable study on healing in the Christian church. The author looks at medical and psychological phenomena over the past 2,000 years, including the early church and the ministry of Jesus..."


For those integrating modern philosophy with the traditional values of the Christian Church, this book is very compelling as well as historically comprehensive.  

‘Wild woman’ finds spiritual home

Sallee Wade is very much a wild woman.  Her story is incredibly inspiring to me.  What she is sharing from her life experiences on her unusual and different path to understanding  is solid and balanced.  Women take notice of the many messages in her fascinating story.

"Being a wild woman means being in touch with your own rhythms and truth. It means knowing how to veer off course when you need to."


"I learned that the 12 disciples of Jesus are characters, too. Peter is faith, Andrew is strength, John is love, and so on," Wade said. "When I learned that, it connected with everything I knew about psychology, and physiology and yoga. It made the Bible come to life for me."


http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/199/article/50409/


"He said, ‘You need faith, love, trust, creativity, discernment. You need patience, humility, humor, wisdom. You need receptivity to truth, grace and you need gratitude.’"  These are the words that Sallee heard during an inner dialog with Jesus, while praying. 


Her character flaws, the disciples and journaling became the groundwork for her book, the author states.  

Love & Hate

Pastor Bruce Wood  has written a fascinating, challenging, and insightful opinion on the death of Bin Laden and what it means to have hate in your heart instead of love.  The contrasts are sharply defined and powerful in the spiritual truth that is uncovered here.

http://www.ahherald.com/columns-mainmenu-28/pastors-corner/10839-love-a-hate

" Bin Laden taught us this much: hate will only beget more hate. I am sure he loved as well. He loved his family, his brothers-in-arms and even his man-made twisted view of god. And Jesus speaks to this as well. If we love only those whom we choose are worthy of that love, we announce to everyone else that they are unworthy of being loved. This was the life bin Laden chose. I choose love."

"Let us be the people who reach out in love, who sacrifice for peace and who do not revel in the death of others but work to prevent even one more life being wasted for the cause of hate."

I couldn't agree more with this sentiment.  When you let go of fear, hate and all the rest of those toxic emotions, life becomes proactive instead of reactive.  Solid insights.