My healing...

“One may be cured and healed, or cured and not healed. It is also possible that one may not experience a cure to their disease, but be healed in the midst of it. … Cure is temporary, since all die; but healing is forever (Health Human Life, Bruckner pp. 212-213).” These two sentences encapsulate my personal journey of healing this semester.

I wrote during the first blog of this semester that I had not yet experienced my healing moment. At the time I understood healing in light of cure rather than in light of the wholeness is discussed throughout Bruckner's book. I expected my struggle to go away, to be taken care of, to be cured. However, at least for now, I join Paul in stating that “my thorn” has yet to be removed. I stand “un-cured.”

Yet, my healing moment has begun. I am learning that healing (wholeness) in the presence of, even in spite of malady and imperfection is possible. I have found wholeness even without “perfection”. (Perfection being the idea that a whole, complete and optimally functioning physical body is necessary to be “healthy”.) I found peace with my God (e.g. right relationship). I am trusting his healing work in my life.

As noted above my “thorn” remains. There are days when it causes more pain and days when it causes less. There are days where I am ever mindful of its impact upon my life, and days when freedom reigns in my heart and mind. I am not cured, but I am living into my healing. Paraphrasing the words of Paul I can now proclaim, “Thanks be to God who makes me whole through Jesus Christ.”

--Serving Him alongside all of you, just from further away
--Jesse Letourneau



















Coming Next week, a review of my semester, via my review of the films I have viewed this year.

But you don't have to take my word for it....

(...insert Reading Rainbow "da-na-na" music cue)


So I have thought about writing an autobiography. And while I still may do that some day, I found out that Phil Vischer (Creator of VeggieTales) as already written my autobiography for me.

Okay, he wrote his autobiography. And while I didn't create or loose a major company that produced direct to VHS Bible stories staring anthropomorphic vegetables; there are some major thematic similarities between Phil's life and mine.

In fact if you swap out the word divorce for leukemia and Walt Disney for Jim Henson you pretty much have my story.

Phil even had a studio on Foster Ave. in Chicago (where school is and where my apt was last semester).

--Serving Him alongside all of you, just from further away
--Jesse Letourneau