Topic: Healing

Jesus urges us to take stock, to recognise the sicknesses which warp us and the demons which colonise our hearts and our minds, to renounce them so that we become free to minister to one another, and to proclaim the good news in our words and our lives.

Jesus leads us into a joyous and healthy way of living that avoids both constricting legalism and destructive libertarianism.

God is all ready to heal and free us, but organised religion is not always so quick to agree.

Answers to prayer are not a controllable formula, but we are called to pray as part of our participation in God’s quest to bring healing, wholeness and life to a world of chaos.

In Christ we are set free from all that would oppress us in order that we might be free to live in gracious and life-giving service of God and others.

Jesus and the Canaanite woman bring us along with them into a new understanding of what defiles, and what makes us clean and whole.

A sense of shame can be God’s invitation to accept healing and new life.

We remain blind to much of what Jesus would have us see until we allow him to open our eyes to see through the eyes of others.

The Spirit of God is acting to bring life out of death and hope and vitality out of despair.

When we recognise Christ’s presence in the Eucharistic liturgy, we will bring the sick in search of healing.

The gospel calls us on a road to healing and wholeness, but its steps are so deceptively simple (which doesn’t mean easy) that we often don’t take them seriously and so don’t do them.

To those for whom the griefs of yesterday or the fear of tomorrow is just too much, come Lord Jesus.