“Though we did not like their symptoms and the way these disturbed us, they, like ourselves, were sick too. We asked God to help us show them the same tolerance, pity, and patience that we would cheerfully grant a sick friend.” (Page 67)
The notion of someone being ‘sick’ is supposed to naturally elicit tolerance, pity, and patience.
The word’s sense has changed in contemporary English to connote mentally ill, twisted, perverted, pathological, sociopathic, psychopathic, or sadistic. The word’s irrevocably tainted.
It’s best to replace it with a word or phrase that does genuinely do that, for example:
- Under the weather
- A bit peaky
- Having a hard time
- Struggling with life
- Dealing with a lot
What are they dealing with?
Having an ego that has the upper hand and being unaware of God or unable to activate a solution.
They’re trapped, as one, oneself, is frequently trapped. We’re all in the same boat, but some of us, on any given day, are at the soggy end.