Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

healing

  • Radiate Love

    The grace Jesus offers in these healing stories is a grace of transformation, of change, of the true hope of learning to be new.

  • The most difficult part of this week’s gospel isn’t the healings Jesus makes possible so much as what the healings mean for us.

  • When we long to be healed, praying for God to heal us of what ails us, do we dare acknowledge that we are supposed to change?

  • Moving from the call stories to Jesus’s miraculous ministry might leave us with the wrong impression that this is normal.

  • Jesus looks at all of the people and he sees a whole—all of the people together—who need help and people to help.

  • This week’s gap between the lectionary readings seems like just a couple more healing stories. But we aren’t reading many.