An Example of Lack of Knowledge & Wisdom

I know of natural therapies that can and have
helped people with different chronic diseases
or conditions. No guarantees though, since
every person is a variable. But the odds are
very good indeed as there have been many
joyful testimonies.

There are just too many people who are
suffering and dying prematurely. Yet many of
them would never avail themselves to trying
other options because they have far too much
faith, so to speak, in their doctors who
can't help them with their degenerative
conditions anyway, although doctors can help
manage their pains with chemicals or do
surgery on them.

I've had one such person, a diabetic for 30
years, who had his two left toes (including
his big toe) already amputated by his
physician because of infection. He ought to
be congratulated as he did initially try
out an alternative therapy I recommended.
The problem was he gave up too easily and
too soon. After trying it for 13 days!
(Yes, that’s right. Merely 13 days’ trial
versus 30 YEARS he’d given himself to
taking man-made drugs, and many of these
years on insulin. The drugs ingested, I
noticed, were already taking their tolls
on him!)

The reason for stopping the
therapy? He found so much energy after
taking this natural, God-given stuff that
he couldn't go to sleep immediately, so
much so that he had to stay awake for
some hours every night. He said he was
simply not tired. Instead of thanking God
for his new-found energy of which he was
obviously lacking and for the extra time
he’d found on hand to do more things for
God, he started complaining. Yet, prior
to starting the therapy, he could hardly
have the energy to stay more than 30
minutes in the office where I saw him
with his beloved wife who drove him there;
because of fatigue, he was inattentive
and cranky, and a few times was almost
begging to go home early.

Faced with the surplus energy, a result
of taking the highly nutritious plant
food, he was asked to reduce the dosage
so he could get to sleep. But he just
ignored my suggestion. In fact, he even
told me that he wanted to throw it all
away! (There's no known side effects
whatsoever from this food, except that
if taken too late in the day it might
affect sleep because it actually is an
energy booster, among many other benefits.)

Imagine, he had given 30 years of chance
to conventional medicine, having changed
medications at least a couple of times
during that period. Still he could not
get well; rather, his condition only got
worse. In fact, it got so bad that he
went ahead with his doctor’s recommendat-
ion to hastily perform a left-leg bypass
surgery* due to clogging in the artery there.
And he did so not long after our meeting.
I am convinced that had he known how, the
surgery could have been avoided, thus
saving all the expense. In fact, I know
another friend in a similar situation who
managed to escape the loss of his toes and
was able to walk up and down the stairs
freely without any operation!

Hence, much as I had wanted to, I couldn't
help him anymore.

The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh
is weak! Or should I say, it’s the reverse:
“The flesh (body) wants to get well, but
his spirit (heart) is not willing?” And in
this case, it was probably due to a lack of
trust and of knowledge. The two are linked.
This is because you need to know (at least,
a little bit at first) before you can
believe in something (unless it’s blind
faith). And then you will know more even
as you act upon what you know (this is
experiential knowledge). An example is
crossing a very narrow though soundly-built
footbridge, which initially appeared a
bit risky to cross over. Going across it the
first time might have been scary and very
uncomfortable. But subsequent times would
be a lot easier because of experience
gained, and faith had increased.

Well, I fear for the worse for this
friend of mine




* a surgery that reroutes, or "bypasses,"
blood around clogged arteries to improve
blood flow and oxygen to the affected
part.


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