Healing

When the two days were over, he went from that place to Galilee (for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in the prophet’s own country). When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the festival; for they too had gone to the festival. Then he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had changed the water into wine. Now there was a royal official whose son lay ill in Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. Then Jesus said to him, ‘Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.’ The official said to him, ‘Sir, come down before my little boy dies.’ Jesus said to him, ‘Go; your son will live.’ The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way. As he was going down, his slaves met him and told him that his child was alive. So he asked them the hour when he began to recover, and they said to him, ‘Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him.’ The father realized that this was the hour when Jesus had said to him, ‘Your son will live.’ So he himself believed, along with his whole household. Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee. John 4:43-54

Painting by Charles Frizzell

Loving Creator, source of all healing

we are weary and broken in the cold

we are tired from isolation and fear

and many are giving up on hope.

You have promised healing is coming

as it came for the child of the official

the father who stopped and begged you

and the child was better at your word.

There has been so much death and loss

It has been hard to hold onto our faith

we have been hiding for so long

we forget that you are in the midst of us.

Let us be open to your healing today

help us to admit to our desperate needs

open our eyes to your blessings around

so that we might be renewed by love. Amen.