The Art of Healing – Happiness is…

Do you remember the song from You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown – “Happiness is…” – it speaks to life’s simple pleasures. The final lines to the song are: “FOR HAPPINESS IS ANYONE AND ANYTHING AT ALL THAT’S LOVED BY YOU.”

After running the Boston Marathon, I had the expectation that I had beaten post polio syndrome as if post polio syndrome or any disease is something to be beaten. I believed that I had eliminated post polio syndrome from my body and this was the message I was to share with the world. It’s funny how I have come full circle but always spiraling upward. I went from rejecting and hating my body, to loving it in its state of total immobility to then denying all that I had been through and a belief that I had eliminated disease from my body. God’s plan for me was not to demonstrate my invincibility but rather to share my being human. I had to ask God, well if my purpose was not to show how I could eliminate post polio from my body, then what was the purpose in all of this? During “Its All About You” Blog Talk Radio Show God had me hear this phrase: