welcome November 10, 2003 Issue

Health—and the healer within

Warren Bolon

Who doesn't want healing? Relief, mending, repair, cure, freedom—the desire for wholeness and health is innate. Maybe it's the very reason you picked up this magazine today.

When we're faced with illness, injury, or chronic pain—or the fear of disease—something within us protests. We may take different paths to healing, but the desire to get there is the same. Sure, we want relief. But deep down we also want to be made better, to feel loved, to be renewed or redirected.

A silent protest against distress, and for something better than the state we're currently in, is often the opening note of prayer. Protest can grow into search. As you read the accounts we've gathered in this issue—and see how prayer healed cases of epilepsy, asthma, eczema, bulimia, a severe respiratory disease—we hope you'll feel encouraged in your own search for health and well-being. Christian healing is alive and well. The wholeness that God gives isn't an occasional pleasant pause between troubles. It's already there, within us, the undiscovered gift.

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