Hello, tender friends!
This little buddyy had his 4-year-old wellness check up this past week.
They checked his height and weight, but fortunately didn’t see any problem with it. The doctor I took him to last year actually suggested that I feed him white sugar and ice cream to increase his weight.
Thankfully, this doctor was far more reasonable and said that there’s nothing wrong with his weight- that he just happens to be tall but also thin- and that there was nothing wrong with his weight last year either.
But all of this, combined with my own experience with medical crisis got me thinking- what is the best way to measure health? We all know people who smoked and drank or ate bacon everyday and somehow lived until 90 years old.
We also all know people who did everything “right” but were taken far before their time.
Cub told me this story that evening after hearing one of his friends use the word “idiot” for the first time: “A bunch of idiots went up to the North Pole and killed 9% of the polar bear population. But it’s okay, Mommy. Then God went to the North Pole and brought the polar bears back to life!”
Listening to his story that night after our visit to the pediatrician in the morning gave me clarity on the best way to measure health: ask the patient to tell a story.
Cub managed to tell a story with conflict and its solution. That solution declared God is redeemer of what the “idiots” of the world do.
That tells me everything I need to know about his health, both physical and spiritual.
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