Beyond the Sneers

If I go to the doctor’s office with a broken leg, people help carry me, console me, administer pain medication, especially during the diagnostic testing.  They would think it a crime for someone to require me to walk on a broken leg.  Why?  Do no harm. Comfort as soon as possible, and in humane, as well as scientific, ways is the first order of “professional and human” business.

This is not true in the emotional, psychological and spiritual realms of our hearts and minds when they have been wounded or are sick for some reason.  One must believe in these realms if one has ever grieved, loved, been afraid, angry or felt rejection. The first area that Jesus Christ focused on: the heart: for out of the heart all life proceeds. 

Unfortunately, unlike the broken leg, it may take a long time before one is literally “driven” by the immense pain and circumstances to get help.  Often one is so humiliated and terrified by the experience at all the rejection, ridicule, mocking and persecution from those one expected compassion and love before one even makes it to the medical office.  Who wants to endure that crowd to seek help?  So, if one finally makes it to the office for help one is terrified, frayed and exhausted beyond words. But by then the inner resulting explosions have made a real mess of trust and understanding. 

And what is worse?  Even before the counseling really gets started everyone has to ‘upstage’ the medical professional and treat you---and they get angry because you just don’t ‘get it.’   [Their treatment.]  It is because they are afraid. 

God says in the psalms, “The heart and mind of man are very deep.”   It is a miracle that more doesn’t go wrong but how we literally beat up and destroy people who are already ‘broken’ is worse than unjust, it is evil.  With the present demise of true family life and values MOST people are criminally ‘broken’ before they even reach adulthood, whether they are aware of it or not. 

Pray for the mental health professionals, too.  They are overworked, underpaid, and face untold societal battles in their struggle to help others.