What does it mean to heal someone?

1. Although the
world is full of
suffering,
it is also
full of the
overcoming
of it.
(Helen Keller)

2. What does it
mean to say
you are healed?
Healing is not curing.
Ancient stories tell
us that Jesus healed
people, we have no
idea if
he cured them.
(and we don’t care –because
that is not the point).

3. Jesus healed people
because he paid no
attention to
customs and
boundaries –
artificially set by
one group of people
with the only
purpose being to
exclude the other

4. He touched people
–and pronounced
them sinless,
and more - said
that they were
beloved by God.
This is how he
healed them

5. People are healed, not
because you make
them absent
from illness,
but because you let
them know that they
are welcomed
for who they are.
That nothing about
them is sinful, or
deserving of their fate,
or unclean.

6. You help someone
get well when you
put a band aid on
their scrapes any one
can do that
you heal them
when you
kiss it better
for that is an act that
can only be done
with love.

7. We must come
to understand
that we can
heal people.
We can’t fix
them,
but we can
heal them.

8. In every community,
there is work to do
be done.
In every nation,
there are wounds
to heal.
In every heart,
there is the power
to do it.
(Marianne Williamson)

9. May each day guide us
towards better health,
and give us the wisdom to
identify those who have
been placed around us
to help us to heal.

10. "If I can stop one heart from
breaking,
I shall not live in vain:
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain."
Emily Dickinson