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“Wonder and amazement inhabits here.”

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

When I once asked a urologist to prescribe something for a minor bladder infection, he said he’d prefer to wait a few days. By way of explanation, he asked me if I knew where the world’s best pharmacy was located. When I shrugged, he smiled and said, “Inside your own body.”

The doctor used the immune system as one example, extolling its miraculous ability to regulate the body and fight off infection and disease.

On days when a lupus flare-up causes my own immune system to attack the body it is supposed to defend, I think back to that conversation about my “inner pharmacy.” I do so in order to transcend the pain and keep hope alive.

I remember times in childhood when I’d be out running and playing just one day after a high fever had kept me in bed. I remember my recovery from an auto accident, and how well my bones knit and my wounds healed. I recall adrenaline rushes that saved my life; the reassuring sight of blood quickly coagulating; the endorphin rewards following exercise. I reflect on all of my body’s incredible capabilities and, as ever, I am awed and grateful.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

The miracle of self-healing is occurring at this very moment.