Friday 2 November 2007

Today is more on the Human Being forgiving...just going ahead and forgiving...and then look what happens.



Why then does Jesus say that the Human Being forgives, instead of God forgiving (as his entire tradition would lead us to expect)? Apparently the Human Being is authorized to act on God's behalf. Jesus does not contemplate a God outside the universe intervening to heal the paralytic, but as a power that can be evoked in suffering human beings themselves. That power is put into action by faith-acts: take up your bed and walk! What Jesus says arouses the Human Being in the other. Jesus knows that the Human Being has its locus in himself, but it also has its locus in the paralytic. The Human Being seems to function as the mediator of God's intent for our becoming whole.



The power for healing is already present. Interesting. Wink is not claiming that it is a power outside of God. Rather, it is the way the power of God, that makes the creation whole, enters into the everyday events that transpire around us. The healer is not all there is. Those who are healed make up the whole event. In, with, and under the healer and the paralytic is the power of God that comes to life in their lives - held together for the welfare of each. Both Jesus and the paralytic enter the power of the healing Lord, God, and it becomes what is. We may not see this kind of healing in our own lives, but we may. Then again, we are invited to see healing through us and with others. There will be many ways that this can happen. It is not the focus of our life as followers of Jesus and yet, along the way, we inspired to trust that healing will take place...wholeness will come to be and we may not know what that means unless we let ourselves be the "mediator of God intent for our becoming whole."



Connection: Being a part of the world being made whole...quite a day is at hand.



Healer of our Lives, in many and various ways, you use us to be the power of healing and too often, we do not trust that such power is given to us. Be the encouragement that we need to be a gift of healing and wholeness in this day. Amen.