Hospital Stay- Letting God Heal the Source of Your Pain
Many have read my husband's post earlier this week. He was admitted in the hospital due to pancreatitis. He is doing well and healing. This wasn't a sudden pain that came overnight. For the past few weeks, he was feeling pains in his back that were treated. Then came pain that mirrored acid reflux. They treated those symptoms. He was next treated for a slow colon. None of the treatments seemed to help . He finally went to the E.R. at 3 am. They looked at his treatment history of x-rays, ultrasounds, and medications and determined the next step was a CAT scan. Upon reading that scan, the source of weeks of pain was found and treatment was started. Healing could finally happen. Sometimes we feel emotional pain and try to relieve the symptoms to no avail. We work through our self-medications without ever getting to the source of our pain. When we look at the Samaritan woman at the well in the Bible (John 4), she had been abused, rejected by one man after another, and learned to...