Years ago, I saw a movie about a group of medical students, and one of their professors said something like, “we have doctors—we need healers.” She was explaining the difference between someone who possesses the knowledge and technical skills to treat physical injury and disease versus someone who has that same ability plus the heart of a healer—the compassion and empathy to recognize that it’s not just the visible wounds that need binding.
Mama and Daddy have both needed healing this spring, and we’ve been blessed with doctors who also have that healing heart. (Unending gratitude to Dr. Jeff Davis and Dr. Kathleen McKeon at Andrews.)
As I’ve watched both of my parents go through hospital stays and recovery, what I never realized in the moment and was always surprised to discover, after the fact, is that I’ve needed healing, too. And friends and family have been right there with just the right treatment—encouragement, advice shared from their own journeys, a reminder to laugh even in the hard times, offers of help and assistance—and prayer—constant prayer.
They made me realize that we’re all healers. We have opportunities every day to help, encourage, console—in short, to love each other. Unending gratitude for that gift.
A new command I give you:
Love one another.
As I have loved you,
so you must love one another.
John 13:34
Beautiful! You are all such Great Folks & loved so much. Hallelujah! To Our God!
Posted by: Cindy Hicks | June 02, 2019 at 07:48 AM