Medication level changes….
Not another medication change I thought. Not again surely. I’ve had more changes in medication than roast dinners, or at least it seems that way at the time of first writing this some years ago. I’m sure I’m not the only one to get sick of medication changes and all the havoc it plays on our bodies and minds. Sometimes I wish doctors would make up their minds about how much of what they want to give us. Surely I know better after all, I’ve had this illness longer than some of those doctors have been practicing psychiatry. And I don’t leave it at the office to go home to a healthy home life. I have my illness 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Now, isn’t that how we treat God………I know more about the problem than you do! You don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m the one who has to put up with IT [OR HIM OR HER], all of the time. And you don’t even give me a guide. I mean to say all you’ve given me is a bible, the Holy Spirit and oh yeah, the church………who could forget that group of misfits. At least I’m not as sick as they are…….but then again I’m reading [and writing] an article about mental illness. After all I’m not like them or am I ????
I know……..I’ll go to another clinic/church. I can get help somewhere else. Another doctor [pastor/church leader], church/clinic or even…why not another branch of medicine like new age teaching or another religion. After all my prayers aren’t being answered. I’m still sick. I’ve been forward for prayer so many times. It’s not fair! I’ll try that other church or maybe that new age healer I read about. After all, you know you read about more people being touched and healed and changed by that sort of thing than by prayer or going to a good Christian church reguarly. But then again, I haven’t been reading much Christian literature lately, just the stuff you get at the newsagent or on the television. But surely that doesn’t matter, surely nothing like that really does happen. Or does it?
Surely Jesus is called the great physician. Jesus still performs miracles as he did all those years ago. And God still makes the way through peoples “red sea” type situations with rapidly approaching armies. And the Holy Spirit is still poured out into people lives changing them like in new testament times. Sure it DOES happen, yes, even now in these times even if not always in exactly the same way………..But are you listening to, watching and reading the right material. Are you just gazing at whatever comes on the T.V. or the internet, literature for wrong purposes. Do you use the internet etc. to gossip the latest news or to gossip the gospel. Even for people without the internet there are lots of ways of doing ministry for God. Ask your pastor or missions director for ways of helping out. That’s how I started doing this. There was no adequate people helping me so I decided to do it myself, to help other mentally ill Christians that suited me, so I decided to help others like me. And you are now reading the results.
So it all depends how you look at it; who knows best? Answer: Jesus the great physician. Is God still working miracles, yes and yes, the Holy Spirit is still being poured out into peoples lives. It just depends on what you’re watching, listening to and reading. HEAVEN FORBID! You might even read the bible!! Believe me good news is out there…….You just need to look in the right places…..
THE PSALM OF THE T.V
Based on the 23rd Psalm
The T.V. is my shepherd, I shall not want
It makes me lie down on the sofa
It leads me away from the faith,
It destroys my soul
It leads me in the path of immoral sex and violence for the sponsors sake
Yea, though I walk in the shadow of Christian resposibilities, there will be no interruption for the T.V. is with me
It’s cable and remote control, they comfot me.
It prepares a a commercial for me in the prescence of my worldliness.
It annoints my head with humanism and consumerism, my coveting runneth over.
Surely lazines and ignorance shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house watching T.V. forever.