So, you go to your doctor and the doctor prescribes you a medicine, for whatever. You go to the pharmacy, fill the prescription and head home. You take your first couple of doses and you start to get some relief from your symptoms. Then it happens, a few hours into this, you begin to acquire new symptoms, like swelling or nausea, dizziness, hair loss, gum soreness, discoloring of the lip, ear enlargement, nose disfigurement, pimples, warts, blindness or deafness or perhaps you look in the mirror and your head has transformed into the head of a salamander. But your original symptoms are better!
I sometimes can’t believe the side effects listed on medications. I suppose it is required because it happened to someone. These side effects make us wonder if taking the medicine is even worth it, if we must risk these other possible new symptoms. Most of the time, of course, medicine works the way it is intended for the vast majority of users. You have to try it to find out.
Life sort of works that way too. We look at ourselves and we see the symptoms of whatever dysfunctions have cropped up in our lives and eventually begin to look at the possible remedies or changes that we might need to make in order to alleviate their symptoms. When we do, we often see the possible side effects that those behavioral changes might cause; not only the effect they will have on us, but also how they will affect those around us or especially how they may impact our relationship with those around us. We want the change, but at the same time we’re worried or hesitant about the overall effects this change may cause. Will those around me be willing to live with my side effects? Sometimes we decide to just live with the dysfunction. Sometimes we decide to take the medicine.
Once we take the “medicine”, or the cure, we will have to deal with those side effects and with living a new type of life, one which does not include our old malady or dysfunction.
God is the great physician. His prescriptions for life actually work. We may have a few dysfunctions that still need treatment. Taking the prescription may cause us to change and begin to look different to someone else who is used to seeing us with the dysfunction. To them we may begin to look a little different, or a lot, but hopefully over time, if they truly care for us, they’ll get used to the salamander head. Blessings!

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