Health & Healing
Illustration★★★★A patient went to her doctor about a weight-loss patch she’d seen advertised.
“Apparently, you stick it on, and the kilos just fall off. Does it work?” she
asked. “Sure,” the doctor replied. “If you put it over your mouth.”
Fear causes sickness: Numbers 22:3 And Moab was exceedingly afraid of the
people because they were many, and Moab was sick with dread because of the
children of Israel.
A hypochondriac went to a doctor and burst into tears. “I’m certain I’ve got
liver disease, and I’m going to die from it.” “That’s ridiculous,” said the
doctor. “You wouldn’t even know if you had liver disease or not. There’s no
discomfort of any kind with that ailment.” “That’s right!” said the
hypochondriac. “And those are my exact symptoms!”
A study of 1,000 Israeli men with heart conditions found that those men who
felt they were loved by their wives had a 50 per cent reduction in their angina
and cardiac disease.
Found in Hot Sermon Illustrations, Tony Llewellyn · page 60
The point
Humorous takes on weight-loss patches and hypochondria, plus evidence that feeling loved reduces heart disease—love is healing.