![]() ![]() Once you do that spiritually, you will have a different perspective. He gets rid of all foreign matter and drains off infection-however much it hurts. The first thing a doctor does with a wound is to clean it out. Don’t keep anything that will not edify you. Put up a “no trespassing” sign, a “no dumping” sign, and take control of yourself. If you are fretting over such things, it’s time to clean the yard. I do not want my mind to be a dumping place for shabby ideas or thoughts, for disappointments, bitterness, envy, shame, hatred, worry, grief, or jealousy. I have never been successful until I have put something edifying in their place. I’ve had to evict some thoughts a hundred times before they would stay out. Occasionally I’ve tossed these thoughts back over the fence where they came from, when it could be done in a friendly manner. I’ve hauled a few of these away in my lifetime. I have enough trouble keeping the weeds down that sprout there on their own without permitting someone else to clutter my mind with things that do not edify. I do not want anything coming into my mind that does not have some useful purpose or some value that makes it worth keeping. They are very clearly printed and simply read: “No trespassing.” “No dumping allowed.” On occasions it has been necessary to show them very plainly to others. Years ago I put up some signs in my mind. Our minds can become veritable junk heaps with dirty, cast-off ideas that accumulate there little by little. But after lawn clippings and papers, the other things just don’t seem all that much worse. We would not consciously permit anyone to dump junk into our minds, not old cans and bottles. We leave our minds vacant and empty and open to trespass by anyone. This corner lot is like, so very much like, the minds of many of us. But little contributions from here and there made it so. The neighbors did not intend it to be that. Then came a few papers and a plastic bag, and finally some tin cans and old bottles were included. Someone added a few sticks and limbs from a nearby yard. First someone threw a few lawn clippings there. There is a footpath across it, a bicycle trail, and ordinarily it is a collecting place for junk. #LEAVE US ALONE 1975 FULL#Although adjoining yards may be well tended, a vacant corner lot somehow is always full of weeds. Somewhere near your home there is a vacant corner lot. If you suffer from worry, from grief or shame, from jealousy, disappointment, or envy, I have something to tell you. Even though we have a serious physical ailment, we can be spiritually healthy. We can learn to avoid spiritual infections and maintain good spiritual health. Too many of us, however, are chronically spiritually sick. All of us now and again may be spiritually ill as well. There are also rules of spiritual health, simple rules that cannot be ignored, for if they are we will reap sorrow by and by.Īll of us experience some temporary physical sickness. Those who violate the rules one day pay for their foolishness. There are basic rules of physical health that have to do with rest, nourishment, exercise, and with abstaining from those things which damage the body. Often, very often, when there are disorders, it is very difficult to tell which is which. The body and the spirit of man are bound together. ![]() There are spiritual disorders, too, and spiritual diseases that can cause intense suffering. Very seldom is it described as spiritual.īut there is a spirit in man to ignore it is to ignore reality. This intangible part of us is described as mind, emotion, intellect, temperament, and many other things. There is another part of us, not so tangible, but quite as real as our physical body. Some very major ones still remain, but we now seem able to do something about most of them. In recent generations one after another of the major diseases has yielded to control or cure. “These physical disorders,” the doctor concluded, “are merely symptoms of some other kind of trouble.” The rest of the time I seem to be working on problems that very much affect the physical well-being of my patients but do not originate in the body. He has a large practice, and after thoughtfully considering, he answered, “Not more than 20 percent. I recently asked a doctor of family medicine how much of his time was devoted purely to correcting physical disorders. (“There Is a Balm in Gilead,” Recreational Songs, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1949, p. ![]()
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