spirituality
What is spiritually? I define spirituality as something that is not seen but is experienced supernaturally. In our text, Zastrow and Kirt-Ashman cite, we have defined spirituality as “ the view and behaviors that express a sense of relatedness to something greater than self” (Beckett & Johnson, 1995, p. 1393). I personally believe in God and his son Jesus. They are greater than I. Martha Beck had many spiritual and supernatural experiences. For example, Beck explains her supernaturally experience she had during the fire. Beck describes the feeling of the neighbor lady’s hand on her, yet it was bigger (pg 91). “I felt the man’s arm slide by me, between my back and the wall, and he yanked me upward, hard to my feet (pg 91). She goes on to say that it would be best if they (her family) could saved money when she and Katie both died in the fire. The out of nowhere a voice said “Three”. This baffled her because she could not see anyone. Ye
Martha knew that the spirits were there all along, yet she never activated them until she was “desperate”. She had nothing to loose by requesting their help. In fact, the best thing she could have done was asked for there help. Typically, miraculous appearances of divine personages have been concerned with, and, for the believers, verified by miraculous cures of cases of illness held to be incurable by the secular medical profession. More than any of the other of the ordinary problems of life, illness and, particularly, crippling disease tend to assume intransigent and unyielding proportions, especially when natural medicine has tried and failed to bring respite. When, therefore, there occurs a chance for supernatural medicine to intervene, it is perfectly understandable that many should feel that nothing can be lost and perhaps much is to be gained. Our text further states that spirituality is often manifested in the form of religion (Canda, 1989). I agree t
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