Monday of the 3rd
Week of Lent
March 9, 2015 8:30am
Our two readings today lead me to
some thoughts about healing.
I think we all want healing and
wholeness in our lives.
When we lack healing or wholeness
in any way at all, we are almost driven from within to seek it.
So, we may become aware of our repeated
impatience with someone.
Our conscience tells us that we
are to be more patient with one another, and so we seek spiritual healing from
the Lord
We might seek this spiritual healing
in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.
Or maybe we become aware that we
have low self-esteem, perhaps stemming from feeling put down or disregarded in
our formative years.
Here we may be led from within to
seek an emotional healing.
We might seek this emotional healing
by talking through our feelings with some wise person who can lead us to a much
better sense of ourselves.
Or maybe we have been alienated
from a family member or friend.
Here we feel led from within to
do what we can to work out the problem.
We might seek a relationship
healing by going to the other person and sharing our feelings in a simple,
non-accusatory way and see what we can accomplish.
Or maybe we have an illness,
maybe something serious.
Here we seek physical healing
from good health care professionals.
We also seek this healing in the
Sacrament of the Sick, believing that God helps us with physical illness or at
least strengthens us spiritually to cope with it.
All of these desires for healing
are both human and godly at the same time.
They come from our thirst for
wholeness that is placed within us by God.
And as we seek these healings, we
know that ultimately it is only in God that we find the healing and wholeness
that will satisfy us completely and forever.
