Cured

I am looking forward to the day when we can go out and cure all who are sick.

Then he went about among the villages teaching. He called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits.  He ordered them to take nothing for their journey except a staff; no bread, no bag, no money in their belts;  but to wear sandals and not to put on two tunics.  He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave the place.  If any place will not welcome you and they refuse to hear you, as you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.”  So they went out and proclaimed that all should repent.  They cast out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them. - Mark 6:6-13

Today's Gospel reading begins with the apostles going out and curing the sick, but before this passage, Jesus is in his own hometown and can do no works there.

There is hope in that, isn't there?

Right now, we are all helpless.  Nothing we do can stop this virus from harming us or anyone else.  We just don't know enough, and even those with the greatest abilities are powerless.

But just around the corner, we will be able to send people out with a cure.

We are just stuck in this time before, and we simply have to make it through so we can benefit from the breakthrough.

The key to all this is faith.  We have to believe and when we believe in a better future, we can use this time wisely.

We can find ways to help those who need help, and we can develop alternatives to gathering that keep us alive spiritually and physically.

But in the end, when it is safe to come out again, how will we choose to live?  It would be a shame to go back to our old ways, ignoring one another to bury our heads in social media and self indulgences.

What we long for now is contact and we should celebrate our return to it when that comes.

For we will never want to be without it again.  That too is part of the cure.

More to come...