Sparks from the Fire

The Art of Healing – Steps 2-4

Note: This is a 2- part series. If you are interested, but haven’t read Gift from Mom – The Art of Healing – Step 1, I suggest, for coherence purposes, that you read it first.

The Art of Healing is based on certain principles or laws of existence that exist today and are shared truths between most of the world’s major religions from Christianity to Buddhism to Hinduism to Islam. In most circumstances I find that it is language that separates us, and the truths of existence that unify.

There are a few simple premises that this Art is based upon. If you do not accept these premises, this post will not make much sense to you. If you do, the post simply serves as a reminder of what you already know. I believe that the fact of the matter is that we all know these truths anyway. Some of us just don’t know that we know it.

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My son, Dustin, was 8 years old when the heavy steel front door of our apartment smashed his finger.  He was leaving for school, and sometimes when the terrace door is open up here on the 38th floor, there is a wicked compression that happens and doors slam all through the place – especially the front door.

His scream had me running through the living room immediately.  The finger was still caught in the door when I arrived and Dust stood in shock just looking back and forth between me and where his finger disappeared between the steel door and the door jam. I quickly reopened the door and let his finger out.

It didn’t look good. The finger from the first joint to the tip was already bright red and turning a wicked purple and swelling immediately to twice its size. He was horrified and began to scream again. The thought immediately struck me, “How could his finger have possibly fit between door and jam?” There was only 1/8 to 1/4 inch of space between.  The picture in my imagination of his finger caught in that narrow space was not pretty. (more…)