Morning Briefings

Jesus, faced with a man who had been crippled for thirty-eight years, asked a peculiar question, ‘Do you want to be healed?’ Being delicate can become a way of life. Some grow accustomed to being a victim, to being helped, to being dependent, to being unable to walk and to fend for themselves. What bit of ourselves do we want to be healed? Everyone has a weakness where stress shows: nerves, addictions, sleep, anxiety, fears, pains, rashes. We can be too limited and unambitious in our prayer for healing. A lovely description of mental health (from Freud) is ‘the capacity to love and to work.’

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Sacred Space