My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Healing Those Who Need It Most
Jesus cured all those in need of healing but perhaps others were also ill, though not needing to be rid of what caused their distress. We can all have pain and none are better for it, but for some it leads to greater despair and so it is better that they have it taken from them. Others were perhaps left to endure the normal courses of distress. It was less a question of what was fair than it was of saving or securing people in the ways they had need of, making Jesus' ability to discern an aspect of the cure.
Labels:
fairness,
insecurity,
Jesus,
pain
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