It’s Day 29 of the Giving Thanks Challenge hosted by Leah at South Breeze Farm.

I am thankful for medicine, doctors, nurses, hospitals, dentists, and the level of health care we have in this country. I’ve been blessed with wonderful doctors and nurses along the way. I have friends and loved ones who would have died without medical help. The health care system is flawed in many ways, there are ethical issues that new medical technology raises, there are cures that are worse than the illness, there are questionable treatments that call for discernment, but still, all told, I’d hate to go back to the days of leeches and a lack of knowledge of basic health practices that we take for granted now and higher mortality rates. Ultimately it is God who heals, as one former pastor used to say, with medicine, without medicine, or in spite of medicine, but I think He has gifted and used many in the health industry.