IF YOU WANT TO YOU CAN CURE ME

PRAYER PAUSE

Friday 11 January 2019

IF YOU WANT TO YOU CAN CURE ME

Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading.  The man with leprosy implored Jesus, ‘If you want to you can cure me.’ (Luke 5:12-16)

Reflection.  Each day since Epiphany we have had words and signs of the arrival of God in our midst.  Now we have a response.  It comes from a poor man covered in an awful disease which distances him from others. Jesus touches him and says, ‘Of course I want to!  Be cured!’  We ponder that response of the man with leprosy.  He stands for all of us and for the world. We do respond to God.  That much we can be glad about.  We do cry out for healing.  I suppose the difficulty is we do not cry out enough.  It is still individuals moved by their own pain.  It is not yet a chorus of humanity crying out for healing, justice and wholeness.

Prayer.  Lord, help us to be in touch with our own wounds and cry out to you for healing. Amen.