Nature is all around us and is the creation of our Father, who is responsible for all things. We understand that there is a natural world that exists by being under the control of the laws of nature and not the existence of mankind. It is the natural way that brings about the birds and the bees and causes the flowers in the field to be there. We do not understand why flowers grow where they do and why bears exist in this forest and not in that one. It is the balance of nature that makes life appear here and not there.
It is the natural way that causes there to be in existence a balance that calls to us to find what is intended for mankind to use for our advantage. Things that occur naturally are the basis of sustainable life on earth and this planet exists in the form that it does, because it is the naturalness of existence. The countryside in which we live contains all that we should need to exist for our pleasure. There are plants that grow here that have significance, because they contain the herbaceous needs to our medical problems. We need to learn how to use them in their correct amounts, as in smaller doses they may save our lives, but larger doses are poisonous and will kill us.
Such a plant as the foxglove, which gives us digitalis and controls the beating of our heart. God has given us natural remedies to use for medical needs and the wise humans of yesteryear were able to learn how to treat problems that people may have by using the herbs and plants of their knowledge to act as cures. They were the early characters using the natural plants before the pharmaceutical companies grew into great producers of pills, which form the present-day cures for all ills. The wise women were so important in the Middle Ages that they were given a special level of knowledge that not only cured miraculously but they could equally kill.
They were credited with all manner of events. It became known that anybody having a run of bad luck had upset a wise woman or witch. The knowledge that they had came down from mother to child and was collected by the monasteries of the monks, who became well-known for their collection of plants that they grew. Today we talk of natural cures as opposed to the medical profession, who peddle the pharmaceutical kind. Anything natural is unreliable, although many cures do the job more naturally and safely by those who still study the natural way, often when the official medical treatment had failed, the people go back to the old well-tried methods. What God has supplied us with are natural cures if we know where to look.
Saturday, 27th March 2021
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