Friday, January 13, 2017

Breaking In, Breaking Out

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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