Take The Right Dosage

I have been coughing for like two months now. For two months also I kept disturbing the doctors in our school clinic. This morning I went again for another consultation. The Doctor asked me “Did you take all the medicines I asked you to take for one week?” “Uhho!..uhho! Yes doc!” (coughing) I answered. “I got some of them cheaper from the Generic Pharmacy”, I added. She replied, “Generic Medicine are good but did you know that if generic, the one I prescribed to you should be twice a day instead of once?” “No I did not”, I answered. Then she said, “No wonder why you are still coughing, it is not enough to take the right medicine, you also have to take the right dosage.”

I was struck by his last sentence. I believe that taking the right dosage is not only for the physical sickness but for the spiritual and other aspects of life as well. Some of us may be praying every single day but because we are too busy for other concerns we spent too little time for prayer and too little time for paying attention to God’s manifestation in every events and people we encounter. And then we wonder why still we are spiritually sick. We stagnate. We are not at peace. We don’t grow in our relationship with God, and we don’t enjoy our relationship and companionship with the other members of our family or community. It is simple because even though we take the right medicine (prayer), we failed to take the right dosage. I know a father who complains about how ungrateful his son is, when he loves him so much and has given him “everything” he needs. But the word “everything” does not include time, affection, listening, tenderness and concern. In other words, “underdose”, he can’t expect healing.

You know what, while writing this article, I’m still coughing but fully aware that to cure any sickness in any aspects of life,it is not enough to take the right medicine but also the right dosage.