At a recent retreat, we began our day with Bible study. We gathered with our coffee and our theological degrees to reflect on this particular passage. We became involved with the nature of the hemorrhages and what her condition meant under the Jewish purity codes.
Until one priest said, “Isn’t it enough she needed to be healed?”
Well, yes.
Too often we become focused on the hows and whys of someone’s need for healing. Tell me the details. Just how, again, did this happen? And what did you do to cause this?
Our stories are important, but Jesus reminds us that our recognition of a need to be healed is enough. The details are simply details. Healing is not conditioned on telling the right qualifiers in our story or being completely blameless for our wounds.
We are simply asked to recognize our need to be healed, to reach out to Jesus.
