healing
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The grace Jesus offers in these healing stories is a grace of transformation, of change, of the true hope of learning to be new.
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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.
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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?
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Moving from the call stories to Jesus’s miraculous ministry might leave us with the wrong impression that this is normal.
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Jesus looks at all of the people and he sees a whole—all of the people together—who need help and people to help.
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This week’s gap between the lectionary readings seems like just a couple more healing stories. But we aren’t reading many.