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Going back to biomass isn’t a bad idea given the current state of my life.

Search what you can about primary hyperparathyroid disease. You’ll find that not a lot of people know about it, and its symptoms are attributed to aging. I’m not yet 30, but I feel very, very old. I’ve been openly waiting for a sign for a long time now, but have seen nothing. Consider me a skeptic, but I’m waiting for a sign before I go back to the church. I rarely feel the energy, or want to shower before 10am if I don’t have to, and go to a mass for an hour.

Well, Jesus Christ can come to you right where you are. He’s not that far away. A million light years are but an infinitesimal space to God. But God is focused on you right where you are, right now. God brought you to read Free Republic and this thread right now. This isn’t an accident. We are all glad to pray for the Spirit to approach you, but only you can say yes when the Spirit does approach you. You aren’t a “hunk of biomass” to Him. You are a soul and a spirit, who happens to have a decaying body right now. That soul and spirit will go somewhere when that body dies, and where it goes depends on the kind of spiritual wind you are riding. God also says He loved the world, and last I checked you were part of the world.

God is not shy to announce His presence to doubters and skeptics, if they are sincere about asking out to Him for enough proof to take hold of. God probably won’t stick a whole encyclopedia of proof in your lap at first, but if you are sincere in asking, you WILL see something.

Search what you can about primary hyperparathyroid disease. You’ll find that not a lot of people know about it, and its symptoms are attributed to aging. I’m not yet 30, but I feel very, very old. I’ve been openly waiting for a sign for a long time now, but have seen nothing. Consider me a skeptic, but I’m waiting for a sign before I go back to the church. I rarely feel the energy, or want to shower before 10am if I don’t have to, and go to a mass for an hour.

BB is far from perfectly healthy herself.

And there are others who are dealing with hormonal issues as well.

I would never minimize anothers suffering and I sympathize with your ordeals. I have the opposite, hypothyroidism, as well as degenerative disc disease in my lower back and neck. I am on permanent disability because of it. I hope you can find a good doctor that can treat your symptoms and help you to have better health. We can look around and always find someone worse off than ourselves. That adage about, "I complained that I had no shoes until I saw a man with no feet.", seems to say a lot to me. We can ask, "Why me?", but really it should be, "Why NOT me?". In this world, this fallen world, there will be pain and suffering, disease and death, but this world is NOT our final home.

Our physical bodies WILL go back to "biomass" but our souls are eternal. Our Creator loves us and has provided a way so that we can be with him for eternity. When we receive Jesus Christ, which is believing in Him to be our Savior, accepting the free gift of God offered to us by his grace through faith, we WILL be with him in heaven. One day, we will be given a new, glorified body to inhabit and it will never be sick or grow old or die. I will gladly endure this life of pain knowing that eternity with my God is my future.

I understood this precious truth when I read John 10:27-30, Jesus said:

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one.

I sincerely will be praying for you, FRiend.