Day Twelve // March 2 // Healing “In my deepest wound I saw Your glory, and it dazzled me.” – St. Augustine of Hippo –
It’s one of my favorite things about Jesus’ healing ministry: that He touched the people He cared for. He touched the untouchable and loved the unlovable. Certainly, the Lord was powerful enough that He could’ve just prayed over them. He probably could’ve just thought about their healing and had it accomplished. But Jesus knew something that we only strain to know: the healing power of touch. The necessity of touch. His were hands used for extraordinary means: to convey the very power of God into the world His hands had created: to love it, to serve it, to give His life for it. His hands had the power to bind up and to set loose. And, if we’re honest, we have to confess that we all have needs; we all have brokenness; we all have places that
