Do you think of medicine as pills produced by big pharmaceutical corporations? Have you ever been healed by something that wasn’t medicine in this narrowest sense? Then it was medicine for you. There are many dimensions for healing. Can you see how many ways you have received healing? What about being a healer yourself? In this broadest possible sense, what type of medicine do you provide for others? Let your imagination run on this to see the gifts that I have given you for healing, and be aware of them, and employ them with deliberate intention for effect. 

Have you noticed that when people have a heavy emotional burden to carry, they often feel drawn outdoors to deal with it? Have you experienced this yourself, that the world of my creation is the only place large enough to hold your grief? Have you seen the same pattern in the scripture, that those who had encounters with me did so outdoors? There were fewer enclosed structures then than there are now, but it is still a valid principle. Wasn’t my ministry done outdoors? There are issues to deal with outside the camp. If you are facing something like this I will meet you there.

Do you want your children to question their faith? If you went to a lot of work to raise them up in the way they should go then you might be reluctant to see them call their faith into question, but they will do it anyhow. What is the alternative? To lead an unexamined faith that has not been tested? Would you want this for them? They will not become my disciples with a faith that they have not contended for. It will be painful for you to watch them wrestle with me, but who do you expect to win? Consider the history of those who wrestle with me.

Do you see injustice in the world? Do you believe that you have the answers that would solve the world’s problems? Are you willing to volunteer to be the agent to bring about the necessary changes? Have you done or submitted to the changes required in yourself to make you capable of changing the system? Do you recall the story about the speck in your brother’s eye and the beam in your own? Is it possible that you have not yet done enough of your own internal work that you are able to implement large scale corrective changes in the system? I want you to be able to do this.