Therapy-oooooooohhhhhhh!

Today I started therapy on my back. It is pretty messed up. The Therapist tells me the muscles are stretched so tight that it is a wonder I am able to walk. When my back goes out, like it did a couple of weeks ago, I can't walk without someone holding me up. Anyhow, this therapy thing is supposed to loosen the tightness and make things all better for me. After an hour of stretching this and that, I wondered if my Therapist knows what she is talking about. I came close to crawling to the car. Pastor Tim said I looked like I had been run over with a steam roller when I walked in the office door.

I have noticed this before, and now notice it again. Physical pain and spiritual pain work about the same way. They come from something being messed up within us. I could just live with this as I have for several years, or I can trust the Doctor and the Therapist for what they say and begin to do something about the physical side of my pain.

People come into our offices all the time with spiritual pain. There are certain things they can do to get rid of that pain. They have to trust me as a Pastor to know what I am talking about. Far too often, they don't. They want a quick fix. Make me well but don't put me through any exercises that I have to do because I won't do them. Read my Bible? Maybe tomorrow, but tomorrow never comes. Pray? Okay. "Lord, I need rent money!" or more than likely "Lord, why haven't you given me the rent money?" Serve at church? Are you nuts? I barely come to church because I have so much going on.

If I missed my month of appointments with the Therapist and then blamed her for a lack of results, she would laugh, I'm sure. She would laugh at my stupidity! Everyone wants a quick fix. I'm told quick fixes can be bought on about any street corner- they are called drugs. If you want a life changing fix, then you have to do your excersizes and your stretching and your time at the where it is all happening-the church! Think about it!