272 Words That Will Help You Bring Life To A Troubled Life
Fingerprints of God is Barbara Bradley Hagerty’s book about “the search for the science of spirituality.” She recounts the story of Sheri Kaplan who discovers she has HIV. “At first I thought, How could God do this to me, make me the leper of society?” she said. “Then I realized, I was chosen. The message was, I was chosen so I could help create social change, so I took this as my role. I realized God didn’t want me to die, or even get sick.”
Back in those days the average life expectancy for those diagnosed with AIDS was a year and a half. Kaplan has lived more than a dozen years, without medicine or treatment, just the conviction that God has chosen her for a reason and making her the subject of studies about the relationship between spirituality and science.
Researchers have discovered, according to Hagerty’s own work, that “turning to God rather than rejecting God appears to boost your immune system and stave off the disease nearly five times as effectively.”
Also, she writes, “People who believed God loves them maintained the cells (the CD4 tumor and virus fighting cells) three times as long as those who felt God did not love them.”
Do you want to know how to help troubled people?
- Assure them that God loves them.
- Love them yourself. Tell them you love them, hug them.
- Model the helping loving life. Actively engage in your own God given role as a chose one.
- Always believe, always have faith, always have hope, always love.
- Laugh and sing a song.
This is God’s will for your life!
I love you — Bryan
