Healing

Who is the Infinite Healer, capable of all things…?

Jesus is my Love (Vera Klimova)

Sometimes things happen in our life that can make it very difficult to recover.  How many dear people who I know have been sick – sometimes terminally sick?  How many times are my hands literally tried and I am unable to do anything to help or save them?

Perhaps the only thing that I am able to do is to pray for that person.  And being a sinful soul such as I am, even my prayers are not much good at all…

And I have been thinking about this today.  After all, it is one thing to think about healing in a practica manner and quite another to understand with a full conviction of faith, that when we are sick (physically, mentally, emotionally or spiritually) that there is nothing we can do other than turn to our God and wait for Him to intervene.  Perhaps even in cases where the medical treatment is relatively simple, it really is God who is the ultimate healer.  After all, how often do you hear a story about how a very small and simple thing – being misdiagnosed – results in a person’s death or a life-changing disability?

Christ understood this and taught us this by inviting us to consider our role in the healing in the way that we approach others.  You see, if we were able to see the experience of others as an opportunity to share our own faith and allow that faith to heal them then we could consider the world from a different lens…

“When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your kinsmen or rich neighbours, lest they also invite you in return, and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. You will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.” (Luke 14:1, 7-14).

There is a generosity of heart that is at the fore when we consider healing.  Doctors and nurses need generous hearts to care for the sick – often being on call or making themselves available at inconvenient times if it is in the best interests of their patients.  But so too is this the case with those who care for the poor.  Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta was renowned for her generous heart.  The first people who she cared for were the poor who she took from the streets and straight into her own home so that she would be able to better provide care to them.

And I have been thinking about that today as I consider all the ways that I have failed to care for those who are sick.  And it occurs to me that the first step in healing is prayer.  For after all, who is the Infinite Healer, capable of all things…?

God.  God.  God…

For with prayer, I stand on Holy Ground where everything is clear. Here. At the Foot of the Cross.