Monday, May 10, 2021

Lay Your Hands on Me

 In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. At least, that's what they say. He created the birds of the air and the beasts of the fields and he looked at his creation and he saw that it was good. And then God created man. And it's been downhill ever since. 

The story goes on to say that God created man in his own image, but there's not much proof of that. After all, God made the sun and the moon and the stars, and all man makes is trouble ...

And when man finds himself in trouble, which is most of the time, he turns to something bigger than himself to love or fate or religion to make sense of it all. 

But for a surgeon, the only thing that makes any kind of sense is ...

Medicine

But the miracle of life itself ... Why people live and die, why they hurt or get hurt ... Is still a mystery.

We want to know the reason, the secret, the answer at the back of the book ...

Because the thought of our being all alone down here is just too much for us to bear.

But at the end of the day ... The fact that we ... show up for each other, in spite of our differences, no matter what we believe, is reason enough ... to keep believing.


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