One afternoon several years ago, I listened to an interview on NPR [National Public Radio] with a psychiatric nurse from Tacoma Parks, Maryland. She shared this experience. She was in a discharge meeting for a young girl who was held captive by her rituals and thoughts. The participants in the meeting — the nurse, a social worker, the girl, her parents, and the girl\u2019s doctor — were trying to make arrangements for her to go home.<\/p>\n
Making these arrangements was almost impossible because the girl was convinced that the opposite of God now resided in her body, the opposite of God. She kept interrupting the conversation saying, \u201cIt is possible, isn\u2019t it? The Bible says it is.\u201d Again and again, \u201cIt is possible, isn\u2019t it? It could be, couldn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Finally the doctor stopped and looked over his half glasses at her and said in a quiet voice. \u201cI\u2019m going to say one thing and one thing only about this. In the Bible and in life, God wins.\u201d<\/p>\n
The nurse commented, \u201cThe girl seemed calmer and more settled after that.\u201d She continued, \u201cI carry that statement with me as I work for there are few happy endings in my work and few cures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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