It's funny how God sends you just what you need when you need it.
I ran across Psalm73 (new living translation) and it was asking the same questions I have been asking myself lately. It helped me leave my resentment of others and their success behind. I will take it with me as I turn over a new page in my life.
Truly God is goo to Israel,
to those whose hearts are pure
But as for me, I came so clost the the edge of the cliff
My feet were slipping and I was almost gone.
For I envied the proud when I say them prosper
despite their wickedness.
They seemed to live such a painless life;
their bodies are so healthy and strong
They aren't troubled by like other people
or plagued with the problems like everyon else.
T;hey wear pride like a jeweled necklace,
and their clothing is woven of cruelty
Tese fat cats have everything their hearts could ever wish for
They scoff and speak only evil
in their pride they seek to crush others.
They boast against the very heavens
and their words strut throughout the earth.
and so the people are dismayed and confused,
drinking in all their words.
"Does God realize what is going on?" they ask.
"Is the Most High even aware of what is happening?"
Look at thses arrogant people--
enjoying a life of ease while their riches multiply.
Was it for no;thing that I kept my heart pure
and kept myself from doing wrong?
All I get is trouble all day long,
every morning brings me pain
If I had reall spoken this way,
I would have been a traitor to your people.
So I tried to understand why the wicked prosper.
Bur what a difficult task it is!
Then one day I went into your sanctuary, O God,
and I thought about the destiny of the wicked.
Truly, you put them on a slippery path
and send them sliding over the cliff to destruction
In an instant they are destroyed swept away by terrors.
Teir prsent life is only a dream
that is gone when they awake.
When ;you arise, O Lord
you will make them vanish from this life.
Then I realized how bitter I had become,
how pained I had been by all I had seen
I was so foolish and ignorant-
I must have seemed like a senseless animal to you
Yet I still belong to you;
you are holding my right hand
You will keep on guiding me with your counsel,
leading me to a glorious destiny.
Whom have I in heaven but you?
I desire you more than anything on earth.
My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak,
but God remains the strength of my heart;
he is mine forever
But those who desert him will perish,
for you destroy those who abandon you.
But as for me, how good it is to be near God!
I have made the Sovereigh Lord my shelter,
and I will tell everyone about
the wonderful things you do
All, I can say is AMEN to that.
I am going thru a really rough time right now. The struggle is what to do, how to do it, and will it succeed. I have lost a job I was counting on and having nothing appearing on the horizon. I look around me and see others prosper and begrudge them their easy life. But then God sends me 73 Psalm and it makes me realize that a life well lived is worth more than all the gold in the world. That my reward is not of this earth but of heaven. That even at my age, my life can blossom and be a comfort to those around me.
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Ābu Ḥanīfah Āḥmad ibn Dawūd Dīnawarī (828 – 896)
know in Europe as Avicenna, was born in Bukhara (today’s Uzbekistan). He wrote Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb in 1025. It’s name was later anglicanizedto The Cannon of Medicine. Al-Qanun fila-Tibb was a codification of all medical knowledge of the time and included the first pharmacopoeia. Ibn Sina’s treatise is considered the first pharmacopoeia and lists over 800 tested drugs plants and minerals. This book was used as a reference book in Europe well into the 15 century.
Kitab al-jami fi al-adwiya al-mufrada or as The Corpus of Simples 
of Malaga, Spain was a student of al-Nabati. In 1219 he embarked on an expedition across the North African coast. His travels clear across northern Africa into Egypt. In 1224 al-Kamil, governor of Egypt appointed him chief physician. When Egypt’s conquest of Syria, al-Baitar was able to include collect new plant speciments to add to his collection. In all his works included over 1400 different herbs and medications, 200 of which were his original discoveries. Some of his discoveries included tamarind, aconite and nux vomica. He published his research into herbs and herbal medicine in his book Kitab al-jami fi al-adwiya al-mufrada or as The Corpus of Simples anglicanized. This book became one of the most complete herbals ever written and was used well into the 18th century.
