Few
would deny that the world is in need of healing or that we each individually desire—sometimes desperately—to be healed of the troubles we feel in our bodies or in our lives.
I thought, "I know this is the truth. And now that I have read it, I can't help but live my life in accord with it. I have to. Even if it means no one ever understands me, I have to do this."
Each
year as spring approaches, we begin to hear references to hay fever, the allergy to pollen spreading from blossoms and grasses, and, in rural areas, sensitivity to the dust produced when the fields are mowed.
It made no difference to Jesus whether materiality looked ugly or beautiful, placid or stormy, sick or well—he always looked beyond the material appearances to the divine reality.