you will believe

"You know there is a mind body connection. You figured it out. Many people didn't. You know you're a soul before you're a body. You've dared to doubt the doctors who told you when you were a child that you must take steroids forever. There is another step. You must begin a pilgrimage to let go of what is hurting you. Let go of whatever it is."
"James everybody has to have some stress."
"This is where the work begins. Sometimes we are in love with our sickness. What we call stress does different things to different people. But it has no authority from God. Those stressful things are carving up your body before your eyes. You can become detached from them. Not as a robot. But as a spiritual person who recognises that the eternal is what is relevant. Set your heart on the kingdom of heaven first. Go to God. Ask him for the healing. Make your peace with the ancient Church. Do the job. Let go of your stress no matter how much you secretly think you need it. This affliction is not who your are. It never was."
She looked at me a tad coldly.
I realised that what I was saying was for the moment the most stressful thing she had ever heard in her life.