1 My son, ye have been concerned as to why I have not answered your prayer, and the prayer of your wife that ye might be healed from your affliction;

2 And I your Savior say unto you that if I restore unto you your health in its entirety, as ye have desired, those that are with you in this work will use you up, and your life will be greatly shortened;

3 For they will demand your attention and your strength, both day and night and ye shall have little peace; and they shall wear you down, and ye will have little rest.

4 For they demand the strength of your arm rather than their own, for their tendency is to rely on the arm of flesh and this they have inherited from their forebearers, which have done this from generation upon generation.

5 And because of their wild imagination and their lack of hearing My word, they stagger like a drunk man staggereth, veering from one side to another--at one time embracing My word, then losing their faith and falling back into their former pattern, and thus they make little progress.