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Written by Wendy Neill
I am a regular at the pharmacy. The lady behind the register sees me coming and heads straight for the “Last Name of N” bin. The twins of Chronic Illness and Pain have made themselves at home in my house, so we spend more than we would like on prescriptions and vitamins to appease them.
One day, while waiting in the pharmacy, I spotted a collage on the wall of smiling faces of all ages. Underneath, it said: “Celebrating happy, healthy people”. Then, in beautiful cursive, was a quote: “The groundwork of all happiness is health.”
I whispered to myself, “Don’t believe it.”
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Praütes – a Greek word I was unfamiliar with recently and am still trying to grasp the full meaning of. According to Peter vanBreeman in As Bread That Is Broken (1974), it is a word that “can only be translated very inaccurately into English.” It’s more like the fruit of the Spirit that isn’t a list of nine qualities, but the combination of those qualities that embodies the Spirit itself and the qualities we have access to through the Spirit.
The translations of praütes that most resonated with me were the ones that described a “stillness of the heart” and one that “knows him/herself loved by God.” For me, those two things are very connected. I cannot attempt to manifest a stillness of the heart if I do not know myself loved by God and allow that and only that to define me.