graceful gift

There are many people who practice traditional medicine in our country. A common belief about the practce of traditional medicine is that it is a 'graceful gift'. When the gift of medical cure one had received through traditional hand-over is used as a shortcut to make money in a big way, or when s/he becomes excessively proud of it, the 'gift of grace' is lost! Thereafter when s/he treats people, it doesn't seem bring about the results. When there was 'the gift', even if the mix or the procedure or the ingredients weren't that accurate, the medicine would have been effective. When I heard such stories, I thought about it as mere superstition. But what if this 'gift' was God's blessing?!

In the Old Testament, Saul was made a king by God's will. However, the Bible says that due to his jealousy, arrogance, disobedience to God's instructions, and his evil deeds, the Spirit of God left him. And the strange thing is that he did not know that the Spirit of God had left him!

Even though the Catholic Church is such a large organization, it has not yet been able to develop a spell, technique, practice, or training that can ensure the gifts or endowments of God's Spirit in someone. It is not possible. One can only desire and pray for, submit oneself to, and keep oneself open. Ultimately, the only way is to accept that "this treasure has been given to us in earthen vessels to show that the supreme power belongs to God and not to us."

No matter how far the humans develop, we cannot manufacture God's grace and the gift of the Spirit with artificial intelligence!