Matthew 9:22
“Courage,
daughter! Your faith has saved you.”
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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