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Posted by Randy Bohon:

I hope this is not long but I woke this morning at 4am thinking about things and this analogy came to me, for me. Maybe it will mean something to someone else. Besides anesthesiology I work in Hyperbaric Medicine. This is medicine that places people in pressure chambers of up to 3 atmospheres of pure oxygen for wound healing or Carbon monoxide poisoning etc. People with Diabetes or other ills that cause blood vessels to "shrink and die giving little or no blood flow to tissues thus making them sick or die and Carbon monoxide gets hold of hemoglobin in our blood and won't let real Oxygen be taken up and deliver its life to our tissues and thus we die. Life giving blood is not available. With hyperbaric oxygen everyday for a series of 30 or so treatments Hi tension oxygen is forced into areas that have not had good blood flow for a long time and thus cannot heal. Over this period of time neovascularization happens, that is new blood vessels start to and do grow into this old dying tissue and bring new life to it. It miraculously begins to heal. Or in the case of Carbon monoxide, hi tension O2 forcibly replaces the false oxygen (carbon monoxide) and restores life. I have let hurts or other things into my life that have lead to areas of me that have not functioned well and have started to become emotionally sick or spiritually sick. Hurts that have made a simmering anger that has not let me be completely joyful, or little areas of my life that I have told myself that that's alright I'm not perfect and that is just me (getting angry and telling some one to go ---- themselves because I was right and they weren't) I have been reading "Holiness" by a woman named Demoss. I have begun to realize that I need to let myself be in an atmosphere where I am pressurized by the Holy Spirit each day, to cause a new growth of spiritual vessels into those dying areas of my life that have very little of Christ's blood flowing to them. I can not heal those areas by myself, I need the restorative blood of Christ to be delivered to those areas and cause healing and new growth of blood vessels so there is a constant blood flow to those injured areas.