"More than just okay"

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Getting well. How does God help you get well? Your want, your want is desperate, you desperately want to get well, so that there is “you” and there is this want, like a piece of wood you cling to. Or a giant worm of sorrow burrowing inside you. How is God helping? Well, he has given you this want, this desperate want like a gracious gift. You didn’t think it was yours, did you?

Your want is going to save you (if you let it), your want will bring you to health. Where do you imagine it came from?

The important part is not so much the “you” that is wanting but what the want itself is and is itself wanting – the far side of the want, the place where want is satisfied. Do you feel that as well? What want itself wants you can feel pulsing and breathing like a new birth inside you. The exercise, the incantation imposed on you is to want it. Then want it more. Think health, something like that. No one ever said it wouldn't involve pain.

Health –- green field of joy -- you are so much more than simply feeling okay. “More than just okay”.

Now once you have imagined it, can you bring other people there too?

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