Friday of Week 1 in Ordinary Time
Mark 2:1-12
The Healing of the Paralytic
Jesus is gathering crowds. The word is out. He heals…but he forgives first. Jesus gets to the root of things and wants to
make us whole from the inside out. Our
paralysis and frozenness resides inside us. The Paralytic breaks in...to be broken out.
Am I paralyzed by fear
Am I paralyzed by sorrow
By pride
Or stubbornness
Am I paralyzed by certainty
Am I stuck in my quick and certain judgments
Is my heart stony
And heavy
Am I paralyzed by a crooked sense of God
Living lifeless under God’s powerful thumb
Am I paralyzed by resentment
Am I paralyzed by anger
Lord,
Free me from fear and sorrow
Break into my certainty
Make room there for the power of
the Holy Spirit
Undermine my tendency to make you
in my own image
Bring me to life once again
Break in so that I can break out
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