Matthew 9:22
“Courage, daughter! Your faith has saved you.”
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I am a “high-risk” person – pertaining to health, that is. My father died of diabetic complications while my mother died of heart attack. So, when I got advise from my friends regarding my weight, I have to heed those advise. I took up badminton and now biking, trying to shed off those excess weight before it is too late. I know that there would be medicines and surgical interventions that can cure or correct, but still, prevention is the key.
Most of us really rely on those medicines, but they just relieve us of symptoms, and the real cause remains. We still eat fatty foods and drink sweet sodas and then say, “May gamot naman eh” (Well, I can always take my medicine”. We take a sedentary lifestyle and just rely on supplements like diet pills to “make us fit”. We failed to consider the fact that exercise and proper diet could yield better results. And they are available for us to consider and do, but no one would really push or force us to do this except ourselves. And the real motivation would be to live for our family.
Similarly, Jesus never forced healing on anybody. The people he healed approached him with the desire to be made well. And in today’s gospel, the woman who had been hemorrhaging for twelve years had such a great desire to be healed, she believed that if she could only touch Jesus’ cloak, she would be made well. She had been through a lot. But despite all of this, she had not given up. She moved from fear to faith.
Healing is being one in body, mind and spirit. Healing is possible even if a cure is not. When we separate body from mind and spirit, or spirit from body and mind, or mind from body and spirit, we deny ourselves health. We deny ourselves wholeness. We deny ourselves holiness.
So let Him heal us completely – body, mind, soul and spirit. With faith, you can imagine yourself being whole, living to be like the God who created us.
Almighty Father, the strength of the weak and the comfort of sufferers: mercifully accept our prayers and grant to us the help of your Spirit, that our sickness may be turned into health and our sorrow into joy; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen +
In you, my God, I place my trust.
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