What do the following have in common? – Reaching out in a crowd to touch a rabbi’s robe, even though it will make him ceremonially unclean. – Waltzing into a house full of hostile religious leaders who all know about your immoral past. – Sacrificing a year’s worth of wages […]
Category: The Healing Touch
Doing or Being?
Accomplishing Serving Teaching Managing Supporting Contributing Working Do any of these activities contribute to your sense of self-worth? These kinds of action words—and many others like them—validate our beliefs that we are making a difference in other people’s lives. It’s a great feeling to do something and then feel the […]
Women of Notable Faith
Jesus explicitly mentions the faith of only three women in the Gospels. Can you guess who they are? His mother maybe? Mary Magdalene? Mary and Martha, the sisters of Lazarus? Nope. These women may have possessed notable faith, but the Gospel writers never mentioned it. The faith Jesus commented on […]
Adrianne’s Reflection on Living with Chronic Illness
I wrote the first draft of The Gentle Savior in the winter of 2008, including the chapter about the times Jesus healed two women (“The Healing Touch, ” Week 3). At the time I had no personal experience with chronic illness. The following summer, my daughter Adrianne, who was 16 […]