NEUROPATHY

Neuropathy is a disease or dysfunction of one or more peripheral nerves, typically causing numbness or weakness usually in the hands and feet… more often in the feet. Neuropathy may cause painful cramps, fasciculation (fine muscle twitching), muscle loss, bone degeneration, and changes in the skin, hair, and nails. Additionally, motor neuropathy may cause impaired balance and coordination.

I am beginning to wonder if neuropathy can also go not only to extremities of our hands and feet, but also turn the opposite direction and affect the head and brain and give numbness and weakness. This would be NumbBrain. I think too much sugar; bad coffee, Internet, cell phones, television, politics or noise can cause the dysfunction of brain nerves. (Seems like I remember my Science Teacher in Junior High talking to me about Numb Skull and Lame Brain. I suppose he was referring to neuropathy.)

Perhaps the answer for this issue is the presence and care of the Lord like in Israel’s time in The Wilderness. “Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness so that they lacked nothing; their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.” (Nehemiah 9:21)

One way to experience the Lord’s presence and care is by foot washing (which also can wash the brain).

“So he got up from the table, took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist, and poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him.
When Jesus came to Simon Peter, Peter said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”
Jesus replied, “You don’t understand now what I am doing, but someday you will.”
“No,” Peter protested, “You will never ever wash my feet!”
Jesus replied, “Unless I wash you, you won’t belong to me.”
Simon Peter exclaimed, “Then wash my hands and head as well, Lord, not just my feet!”
Jesus replied, “A person who has bathed all over does not need to wash, except for the feet, to be entirely clean.” Jesus