10-26-03
RADIATING HEALTH AND KICKING IN FAITH
On this day in 1989 I was reading the story of the woman who touched the hem of Jesus garment and was healed. Jesus said it was not the hem of His garment that healed her but her own faith.
Yet, as I read this I realized there was something about him that activated her faith. He radiated health, happiness and well-being. People with such a powerful, peaceful presence transmit healing powers of all kinds to people around them.
It's not when you stand in a prayer line for an hour and get to "the man" that you are most often healed but when you are in the presence of a great spirit, a great soul. It then turns you into a greater spirit, a greater soul.
I have been drawn through my years to people whose lives exude peace and love. Being around them has made it easier for me to believe there was a way out of my illnesses and unhappiness. It is the "little healings" of limiting and morose attitudes that lead to the big healings like the woman in biblical story.
I get the clear feeling that most of the big-time TV healers are running money machines. A retired teacher friend went to one of them for hip healing. Took her limited income and bought a plane ticket to Florida. After the expensive flight and motel room, she was sitting in a long row of wheelchairs and this guy comes down the line telling them "he is not taking wheelchairs today."
Rather than go to an assembly-line forehead popper, seek out those who radiate so much positive spiritual energy (love, joy, peace) that you find your own faith coming to life. And be prepared to sometimes receive "other than healing," meaning a slow movement of your own spiritual center in a new direction. Wholeness follows the tracks we lay for it. Sometimes it is an evolving, growing thing rather than an immediate impartation.
The woman who was healed at the touch of the hem of Jesus garment had the first part of her healing when she got herself into the radiating peace and power of His presence. That's what gave life to her belief that she could be well. That's really what healed her.
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