Some of you know that I have struggled with being disabled and a believer. And you also know how I have been hurt by well meaning, good intentioned church-folk who have prayed for my healing at ad nauseum. Well, I was listening to one of my favorite authors and she wrote a piece in her book about when Christ was resurrected from the cross He didn’t get a brand new, whole, physical body. All who saw Him could see his scars and the physical aspect of His suffering. It reminded me: there was one He appeared to that couldn’t even recognize Him, but only knew Him by the sound of His voice. And another had to put his hand into the cuts in his side to dispel his doubt. Wow, is that not profound? Jesus, the son of God, was fully restored in spirit, but not in human body. It makes me pause, because my experiences of the last several years have been a spiritual growth by leaps and bounds, even though my vision continues to decay. My question is, why do so many focus on the decay and not the growth, that if one would ask a few simple questions would become very evident? Did anyone ever think maybe the words ‘I was blind, but now I see’ was in the spiritual realm vs. the physical? I don’t doubt God heals today, however, my spiritual eyes can see far more today than they ever have before even though my actual eyesight is poor. Go figure.
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