Luke 17:11-19
On the way to Jerusalem Jesus was going through the region between Samaria and Galilee. As he entered a village, ten lepers approached him. Keeping their distance, they called out, saying, "Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!" When he saw them, he said to them, "Go and show yourselves to the priests." And as they went, they were made clean. Then one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, praising God with a loud voice. He prostrated himself at Jesus' feet and thanked him. And he was a Samaritan. Then Jesus asked, "Were not ten made clean? But the other nine, where are they? Was none of them found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?" Then he said to him, "Get up and go on your way; your faith has made you well."
I need healing
I need it badly
and why is that?
because I am a fan of the Twins
and the Twins are playing the effing Yankees.
And they have lost the first game of this five game playoff
And this inspires me to want to write lament psalms,
and then perhaps work on some imprecatory psalms as well
and then personally recite those imprecatory psalms to the corpse of G. Steinbrenner.
I’d rather the Twins lost to Brigham Young Junior College.
I’d rather they lost to the Duke University basketball team and coach K. (that might be overstating it. . . )
When the Broncos made it to the Super Bowl, Pay No Toll showed a measure of resignation that was alarming.
“They’ll find a way to lose this one too;” was his lament.
Preparing for the worst, he lowered his expectations.
Then they won.
Which turned out to be small consolation. . .
I need healing. . .
I have had some pastoral conversations with some people in the last few days that cause me to wonder at how I could ever become so consumed with the little inconveniences that I face.
THEY NEED HEALING. I'd just like this little diversion to go my way.
Odd, I truly am consumed with angst about the Twins.
I truly am caught up with an emotion towards a gol darn baseball club from some large city to the East of me.
I need healing.
This world needs healing.
If we were to receive it, would we know enough to be grateful?
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Some quotes from my collection. . . the first is from Culpepper's commentary in NIB
Are we self-made individuals beholden to no one, or are we blessed daily in ways we seldom perceive, cannot repay and for which we often fail to be grateful? Here is a barometer of spiritual health: although gratitude is not synonymous with faith, neither response to God can be separated from the other." Alan Culpepper
It is more important, more thrilling, more satisfying and infinitely more valuable to know the Healer than to be healed. -Ano
Sin is not so much a problem of guilt that needs to be removed, as hurt that needs to be healed.
The Crucified One is not an abstraction, and he was not crucified for abstractions. Sickness is an abstraction, and he never did eradicate sickness; the sick are not abstractions, and he manifestly did heal them. Hunger is an abstraction, and to the confusion of many social philosophers, he did not eliminate it; the hungry are solid, if empty, and he filled them with good things. He blesses the meek, not meekness; and he blesses the humble, while knowing that humility will be cursed by the proud until the end of the world. -George William Rutler
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