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Hospital where the admitting receptionist gave her a smile, the night-shift nurse gave her a teddy bear, and the doctor gave her a good prognosis. Several days later a clinic set her arm with a non-plaster cast that lets her swim. The last thing she needed was counseling, let alone courses in Christian doctrine; she needed medical attention. For all the training and expertise and technology that brought it to her, for the sheer accessability of it all, and for the resources we have to pay for it, my family has been thanking God profusely. Modern lives are characterized by innumerable needs. For many of us they are met so abundantly that we think it normal,
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