8 Ways Faith Can Heal

I am definately not from Park Avenue. I am in a very small town in Mississippi and faith is all that keeps me going. While I would never throw my kids out of the car, I have come close to blowing a gasket. I have raised two boys and now I have started over with a severe ADHD six year old. All OVER again. That makes me question my sanity right?

I am having back surgery in one week. My doctors are hopeful and I will use my faith to keep me strong.

I guess you couldn't really say this as overtly as this in a blog post intended to appeal to people of different faiths (and I don't say this to put anybody down--more like it's a supplemental thought), but I see an additional element that's more important than all the others; a real connection to the real God. That effect is probably not measurable by "objective" human criteria, but I believe that's the most important part. Without that connection, the benefits of faith are limited to a human experience; they don't really have anything to do with God.

(If the effects could be measurable, I can see the headlines now; something like "Some Mental Health Benefits of Faith Unique to the 'Born-Again'; Jesus Christ Scientifically Demonstrated to be Unique Approach to God." BTW, I don't mean Christians of a certain denomination or movement, but those whose spiritual experience is describable as "born again", and there's a wide range of experience that falls in that category; see Josh McDowell's "Evidence That Demands a Verdict, Vol. I" or the newly updated version for his list of some 80 people of varying backgrounds and experiences but with common elements related to identifying by faith with the risen Christ, people who I believe have a real connection to the real God.)

For example, in my own search for mental wholeness, part of it is seeking God's interventive ("miraculous") healing of my brain. If the "God" I worship and am praying to for healing is not the real God, I am without hope of that prayer being answered.

That's my perspective, FWIW.

Since I was BLESSED with my son NOOR ALI; who happens to be a slow learner; GOD has graced me with lots of perception, tolerance and FAITH; which in turn has given me strength, courage and better health
in order to nurture and raise my NOOR of ALLAH. Though both of us, right now are facing a few health issues, which will surely be set in place by the ALMIGHTY. I take this opportunity to PRAY for all the sick and weak, around us; fervently. May GOD shower HIS blessings on all HUMANITY. Amen.