I am working nights these 2 weeks. It's been tough adjusting to living at night and sleeping in the day. BUT the good thing is that there is more free time in the wee hours of the night. Time to read and watch movies sometimes.
I'm always surprised, when I pick up the bible and start reading it like a novel; what stories i find! There are some really funny and dramatic things in there that have no profound spiritual insight AT ALL. I thought I'd share this one story that pertains to medicine.
So in Samuel, there's this big fight between the philistines (bad guys) and Israelites. This is when God lived in and around the famous ARK of the covenant. You can guess- the philistines win and steal GOD (well, the ark). What happens next is predictable- wherever the ark is- people get sick- they get tumors. Towns keep passing the ark to other philistine towns- which get the tumors too. Now the weird part: They finally GET it, that the ark is GOD and GOD is cursing them- so they decide to send the ark back to the Israelites. BUT they want to include a guilt offering with it. Guess what they make?! Golden rats. Okay, strange, but still believable. BUT they also make golden tumors... I laughed out loud reading this. Golden Tumors? Blobs of Gold like marshmallows packed together? I'm sure GOD loved that...what combined with golden rats- it's what all Gods want as a gift.
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