WELCOME August 7, 2000 Issue

To Our Readers

Mary Metzner Trammell

Today we call it the "mind-body connection." But two or three thousand years ago in the Middle East, they simply called it wisdom. And from generation to generation, they passed along this wisdom.

You can picture the way it might have been: An elder shepherd gathers his children and grandchildren around a campfire that glows for miles in the desert night. His face shines with an inner light more luminous than the fire itself, or the moon above. The shepherd tells his family in hushed tones about the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. He tells them how deeply God, their great Father, loves them. How He watches over them—and leads them. And how this God cares for them, teaching them things that will cheer their lives—and give them health. The two go together, the grandfather explains. Happiness and health. Thought and action.

Then he recites a proverb his father taught him: "If you are cheerful, you feel good. If you are sad, you hurt all over" (Prov. 17:22, Contemporary English Version). It's as simple and as true as that, the grandfather explains.

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