Healing
In the Gospel reading today (Lk 11:14-23) when Jesus healed a mute man, by casting out a devil from him, many people doubted him. They could not believe their eyes and thought that he was working with the devil.
There are many healing going on each day in this world; the last thing we should do is doubt whether it is real. We must know that our living God, though unseen, is ever present in our lives, and if he wills that we be healed, who are we to judge? We must be united with God in his redemptive work on this earth...we are, after all, his children, greatly loved by him. How else can we return that love but to show compassion to the sick and terminally ill and helping them in their healing in whatever way we can. Sometimes, just by being there with them, a touch, a smile can help lift up their spirits, knowing that someone cares. Sometimes, by lending a listening ear helps to unburden whatever anxieties they may have in them.
Yes, there are many ways we can help people heal. In doing that we gain...because healing is a two-way process. In empathising with the sick, we are one with them in their pain and sufferings. We wish we could alleviate that sorrow from them; but knowing that there is someone who understands their distress and who prays with and for them, does in fact gives them the courage to go through it. In our supplications to a merciful God, divine grace will speak to them and to us of hope and encouragement.
The longer the trial to which God subjects you, the greater
the goodness in comforting you during the time of trial
and in the exaltation after the combat.
- St Padre Pio-
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