God loves me and wants me to be well.
The place for healing is right here and right now.
I can feel healing happening, moment by moment.
God speaks to me in the silence of prayer, reminding me to go within to discover that I already know how it feels to be whole, how to heal.
Responsive Reading for Sunday, March 15
A Centurian (leader of a hundred Roman soldiers) met Jesus in a city called Capernaum and told Jesus that his servant was “lying at home paralyzed.” Jesus offered to come to the man’s home, but the Centurian said to Jesus, “Only say the word and my servant will be healed.” “Jesus said to the centurion, ‘You may go, as you have believed, let it be done for you.’ And at that very hour his servant was healed” (Mt. 8:5-13).
I now affirm that the place for healing is right here and right now.
Jesus “took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village . . . . [Jesus] laid his hands on him and asked, ‘Do you see anything?’ Looking up [the man] replied, ‘I see people looking like trees and walking.’ Then [Jesus] laid hands on his eyes a second time and he saw clearly, his sight was restored and he could see everything distinctly” (Mk. 7:23-5).
I can feel healing happening, moment by moment.
A woman who had been ill for twelve years and had spent all of her money on medicines without finding a cure believed if she could only get close enough to Jesus in the crowd that day to touch the hem of His garment, she would be healed. “Jesus said, ‘Someone has touched me . . . .’ When the women realized that she had not escaped notice, she came forward trembling. Falling down before him, she explained in the presence of all the people why she had touched him and how she had been healed immediately He said to her, ‘Daughter, your faith has saved you; go in peace’” (Lk. 8:43-8).
I have faith that God loves me and wants me to be well.
Jesus went to the city of Jerusalem. “One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been ill for a long time, he said to him, ‘Do you want to be well?’ . . . . ‘Rise, take up your mat, and walk.’ Immediately the man became well, took up his mat, and walked” (Jn. 5:1-9).
God speaks to me in the silence of prayer, reminding me to go within to discover that I already know how it feels to be whole, how to heal.