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Reconciliation
To reconcile is to make your checkbook work out. The debts and credits need to be entered. The balance that you have needs to match the balance that the bank has. Reconciliation is also between people....
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Healing many people
Jesus then traveled alongside the Sea of Galilee. He climbed up a mountain and sat down. Large crowds came to him there, bringing to him people who were lame, blind, deformed, mute, or had other...
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Poem – voices in your head
Those voices in your head that say “You’re no good, – you aren’t doing enough, – why even try?” Don’t let them in. They are door-to-door salesman standing on your front step banging on the door ringing...
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Healing a daughter of Abraham.
Jesus noticed a woman who was disabled by a spirit while he was teaching in the synagogue one Sabbath. She was bent over and could not completely straighten up, and had been this way for 18 years....
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Healing in the Sabbath
Let us look at all the various examples of Jesus healing people on the Sabbath that are throughout the Gospels. This is one of the things he did that upset the Jewish leaders enough to want to have him...
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A Sabbath controversy
The Pharisees were watching Jesus closely when he ate in the home of one of their leaders one Sabbath. There was a man there whose body was swollen with fluid because he had edema. Jesus challenged the...
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Pick up your bedroll
Then, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for a Jewish festival. There is a pool named Bethesda near the Sheep Gate. There are five colonnades there that shelter many people who are sick. People who are blind,...
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Healing a blind man
When Jesus and his disciples came to Bethsaida, some people brought a blind man to him and begged Jesus to heal him by touching him. Taking the man by the hand, Jesus led him out of the village. Jesus...
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Poem – every bad thing
Every bad thing God gives me is my medicine, not my poison. Each is carefully titrated, dosed just for me, at that moment. But they taste bad, have unpleasant side effects so I sometimes refuse,...
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Poem – your body is a sanctuary
Your body is a sanctuary, a home to a piece of the light of God. Just like a regular home, you have to maintain it. Just like a mosque or a church or a synagogue or a temple, you want to make sure it...
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Healing an official’s son
Jesus returned to Cana of Galilee, where he had performed the miracle of turning water into wine at the wedding. There was a royal official in Capernaum whose son was very sick. When he learned that...
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Healing a man who was born blind
While he walking along, Jesus saw a man who was born blind. His disciples asked him “Teacher, who is guilty of sin to cause him to be blind – this man, or his parents?” “Neither he nor his parents are...
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Healing work
Sometimes you have to work to be healed. Sometimes it isn’t instant. Let us look at two stories – one from the Hebrew Bible, and one from the Gospels. In John 9:1-7 we read about a man who was blind...
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In sickness and in health
African healer Credo Mutwa in “Shaking out the Spirits: a Psychotherapist’s Entry into the Healing Mysteries of Global Shamanism” by Bradford Keeney says this about disease: “Every one of us exists in...
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Jesus and Herod Antipas
Then some Pharisees told him “Leave here! Herod wants to have you killed!” Jesus replied “Tell that fox that I’m busy casting out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and I’ll be through on...
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Jesus does not punish.
We must remember that the Good News is indeed good. Here are some verses from the Gospels that remind us of that. Jesus came to save people’s lives – not destroy them. Luke 9:51-56 51 When the days...
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Poem – This is not a Christmas present
This is not a Christmas present. This is hatefulness. This is the exact opposite of a present at all, much less one celebrating the birth of Jesus. This is pure aggressiveness. There is nothing...
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Poem – snow day
Remember that feeling you have when you look outside and everything is covered by snow? It was forecasted but they didn’t know exactly when it would happen – what time of day, or even if this day or...
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Mixed Messages
“People and things don’t stop our pain or heal us. In recovery, we learned that this is our job, and we can do it by using our resources: ourselves, our higher power, our support systems, and our...
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Growing in (poem)
I’m no longer growing up but in, strengthening my foundation, clearing out old misconceptions and flat out lies I learned or was taught. This isn’t housekeeping. This is a major renovation, a...
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