Jesus' Tassel

-

 What would you do if you knew someone could heal a loved one? In Mark's gospel, we see people “scurrying” to bring the sick to Jesus. Jesus didn’t even have to touch them, the tassel of his cloak! Mark 6:55 states: “They scurried about the surrounding country and began to bring in the sick on mats to wherever they heard he was.56Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered, they laid the sick in the marketplaces and begged him that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak; and as many as touched it were healed.” When we have a loved one that is sick, we would do anything. Yet not everyone receives a healing tassel. There is more healing than just illness. Healing comes in the shape of values, such as diplomacy. Perhaps a border summit would produce a united front against the issues. Unity. I am not opposed to sending any criminal to jail, or sending them back if they are illegal. However, I think that there is a broken system. I am not sure what it is when it comes to immigration. I need clarity. Do people just come in illegally with no papers? Do their papers run out and they don’t fix them? Is the system overloaded? I’m not sure because the news has become about a Superbowl and not about clarifying issues. I’m not sure why we want to buy any country or land? I can’t understand why we can’t invest in our own people. We can spend trillions of dollars on other nations, but can’t educate United States citizens? I’m not sure what Christian values are when we condemn and don’t care for people. I don’t think there is an understanding for the LTGBQ community, transgender nor struggles when division is created. What is division? Any time we signal out one group and promote or just their story is more important than others. The dark side of America has been Irish workers living in squalor. Slaves to the businesses that they worked for—Asians who built the railroads and suffered during WWII. My heart weeps for Native Americans, all slaves, and children who have now been enslaved to electronics, mostly though I’d like to touch Jesus’ tassel to see how we can heal this great nation of ours on the path…

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Mercy a tribute to Pope Francis

-
Mercy “  The Lord is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.”  Psalm 145:9 (NIV)   Pope Francis was a man of mercy. His life, his Pontificate, were all ways he lived out mercy. He chose to live with the poor, not in a Vatican apartment. He called a synod that included the voice of women. He hired women for roles at the Vatican. He was going to do a pilgrimage with the LGBTQ community. He lived out mercy because he knew that all that God made was good and deserved compassion. John Paul II said to go be scripture scholars, so I did. Pope Francis has led by mercy, and it is up to us to continue the path he his light. A path of mercy and compassion. Today, walk humbly, walk with mercy, be filled with compassion, be a good Samaritan on the path…   Jesus, you said to feed my lambs if I love you I love you, and know all children are your lambs to feed with food, with kindness, with you Jesus, you said if I love you, to take care of my shee...
Read more

New Things

-
  “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” ( Isaiah 43:18-19)   New Things. It is not easy to move forward. It is not easy to make your way through the wilderness and streams to the wasteland. The wasteland, to me, is the unknown. Yet to grow, to be fully alive, we must venture into wastelands. Sometimes we are thrust into it: a child comes along, when aging parents face their decline; job changes, or retirement can all be the time when we find ourselves in the wasteland. Forgetting former times isn’t about forgetting memories, but more about what we thought it would be like when we reach the wasteland. The ideas, ways things should be. Be situationally aware and embrace the joys, the difficulties, LIFE, for it is in the wilderness we face ourselves and find out what we are made of and who we really are as a child of God on th...
Read more

Red Sky

-
  “After they prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the word of God boldly.” Acts 4:31      Red Sky. This morning, the sky was red and pink. My grandpa taught me the saying, “Red sky at night, sailors delight. Red sky in the morning, sailors warning.” The vibrant colors of the morning sky was helped by the Canadian wildfires. Reading the sky or the situation is important to our survival. The faithful of Christ gathered in a room because they knew they needed to stay together. They “read” their sky and felt that without Christ, they were in danger. They knew they were stronger together. Their reward was the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit gave them courage and wisdom to continue the work of Christ. Together, we can create a red sky at night for others to see. We can help them to see the delight in following Christ. As I wait for the “littles” to come out so they get a ride home...
Read more