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Originally Posted by The Crazy Rambler
While it is good to pray and receive prayer it is no guarantee that that will heal us (I have also believers around me who ask me that first before even understanding what the illness is, kinda disheartening, as if you arent taken seriously: like oh, we'll pray and you will be fine.) It is NOT an evil spirit or an attack from the devil. It is a chemical imbalance in the brain - it is even proven that a brain from a BP looks different than the brain of a so called normal person! - and sometimes also a genetic disposition. Add in some traumas and voilą: there we are! Still, I believe in His healing. But I am also realistic: as long as I know I have BP I have to take the measures that help me to be as well as I can be.
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I like the line from the song
Life Uncommon by Jewel: "...if praying were enough it would have come to be..."
I believe that praying for help is important, but like the song implies, we need to do more than just pray.
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From the movie The Hours: "If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark, and that only I can know. Only I can understand my condition. You live with the threat, you tell me you live with the threat of my extinction. Leonard, I live with it too."