{"id":428,"date":"2012-07-18T04:17:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T10:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2012\/07\/18\/advantages-of-leprosy-angola-day-15\/"},"modified":"2016-01-03T19:54:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T19:54:00","slug":"advantages-of-leprosy-angola-day-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2012\/07\/18\/advantages-of-leprosy-angola-day-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Advantages of Leprosy? &#8211; Angola Day 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/07\/leprosy.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-867\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/07\/leprosy.jpg\" alt=\"leprosy\" width=\"530\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/07\/leprosy.jpg 530w, https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/07\/leprosy-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today I was making inpatient rounds at Hospital Cristo Rei when I overheard, &#8220;I&#8217;m so glad God allowed me to contract leprosy, because it&#8217;s only here in treatment that I learned about Jesus. All those &#8216;healthy&#8217; people in my town &#8211; they still know nothing of God&#8217;s mercy.&#8221; Such a stunning statement! Our normal, visceral response to disease is to imagine the pain, disability, even embarrassment that results. Leprosy, like HIV or cancer, only magnifies these sentiments on a logarithmic scale.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And yet this mature individual moved well beyond the visceral towards a profoundly insightful perspective. That disease could somehow be good for us is a provocative statement. Yet with consideration we might well agree that from illness can result a healthy humility, respect, and even gratefulness for what function and time on earth we have remaining to our live.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But exceptional indeed is the discovery that extreme adversity, from any number of threats, may draw one closer to God. Exception &#8211; but not rare. Jesus disciple, Paul, suffered immense physical affliction, and yet documents in Corinthians 12:9 &#8220;Jesus said to me &#8216;My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.&#8217; Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ\u2019s power may rest on me.&#8221; Would that we all come to be nurtured by the truth that our deepest trial may result in our closest encounters with our Creator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Today I was making inpatient rounds at Hospital Cristo Rei when I overheard, &#8220;I&#8217;m so glad God allowed me to contract leprosy, because it&#8217;s only here in treatment that I learned about Jesus. All those &#8216;healthy&#8217; people in my town &#8211; they still know nothing of God&#8217;s mercy.&#8221; Such a stunning statement! 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