Pills

I used to watch, with a degree of amazement, my wife’s elderly parents take their medicines. They had set up elaborate systems with partitions and alarms to make sure that they took the proper medicines at the appropriate time. What and when they could eat depended on their medicine schedules. I was confident that I would never get to this point.

I was wrong. I am already there. The only thing that they did but I am not is the use of alarms. The funny thing is that I am relatively healthy. Most of my medicines are used for preventative purposes.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could take pills to change other things in our lives besides physical health. How about a pill to make us more attractive? I could use a pill to make me more intelligent and have more common sense. Why isn’t there a pill to make our interpersonal relationships more fulfilling.

Wait a minute! The Bible gives us three pills for better interpersonal relationships. I Corinthians 13:13 says, “But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.” Healthy and godly doses of faith, hope and love are sure to improve our relationships.