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A scab

Is a beautiful thing a coin the body has minted, with an invisible motto: In God We Trust. Our body loves us, and, even while the spirit drifts dreaming, It works at mending the damage that we do.

Close your eyes, knowing that healing is a work of darkness, that darkness is a gown of healing, that the vessel of our tremulous venture is lifted by tides we do not control. Faith is health's requisite: we have this fact in life  better proof of le bon Dieu.

FROM "ODE TO HEALING" JOHN UPDIKE