Another View

A friend of mine in Maryland told me about a sermon her pastor delivered about disease and illness. Below is a portion of his sermon:

"Disease is what is happening to ones body. Illness is your response to disease. He told two stories. A woman free from cancer for ten years who had her name listed in the prayer list (without the cancer mention) until one Sunday cancer appeared after her name. She was ranting and raving after church and he asked her what was wrong. She said 'Now they will treat me differently now that they know I have cancer.' She was free from the disease but not from the illness.

The other person also had a disease but lived her life in a way free from illness. She was upbeat, did things for everyone else, and anyone who learned that she had a disease could not believe it."


"Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!" - Kalidasa