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.
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