Healing

So my gall bladder is gone and my body is recovering from the surgery and adjusting to my new gall-bladderless life. 

I'm healing. 

As reported earlier, I felt considerably worse after I got home from the surgery than I did in the hospital.  A quick, downward slide on the "How-are-you-feeling?" graph.  Then a day or two at the bottom of that graph and then a remarkably swift return to health.  Almost every day recently, there have been things I could do easily in the afternoon that I could not do at all that morning.  And there was pain in the morning that was greatly lessened or completly gone in the afternoon.  It's been a wonderful chance to witness and experience the miraculous healing power inherent in the human body. 

And it's given me a chance to think about healing.  I'm healing now from a surgery, but when I think about it, it seems like I'm always healing from something.  And, by extension, maybe all of us are always healing from something: 

 -- you smash your finger in a car door or catch it in a rapidly closing drawer.
 -- you twist an ankle while turning too fast.
 -- you strain your back picking up something that's heavier than you thought it would be. 
 -- you get a paper cut while paying bills.
 -- you stayed up too late last night or drank more than you should have.
 -- you get angry at something you read in the newspaper.
 -- you feel neglected when your Significant Other forgets an important occasion.
 -- your golf game falls apart.  Again.
 -- you get a bad haircut.

You get the idea.  And one of the things that these healing experiences all (or at least most) have in common is that they don't require conscious intervention on your part.  Even your golf game is likely to come back on its own, if you just don't fret about it.  (Trust me on this one!) 

One of the things that most (if not all) religious disciplines share is the notion that you are taken care of by a force or entity that exists 'way beyond your understanding.  And for me, this morning, the whole idea of constantly being in a state of healing resonates happily with this idea.

And it feels like there are times when it is -- in an expanded sense of awareness -- a Good Thing to get dinged up a bit, just so you can experience the wonders of healing. 

And be reminded of the miracle this healing business truly is.