When someone has a cough, offer them a zinc lozenge or a dose of cough syrup or some Vitamin C or all three.

If the problem is a headache, offer aspirin or acetaminophen.

For a cut, a triple antibiotic.

A stab wound? Call 9-1-1. (At least.)

But what about hurts and wounds to the soul and spirit?

What if the threat of infection is to the mind or the will or the emotions?

Or the morals? Or the values? Or the convictions?

My thoughts have flowed along that channel after reading this verse:

“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones” (21).

I want to be one whose state of heart and spirit does good to others (and to me).

from Proverbs 17:28

A little bit more from Proverbs 17: That You?