As many as touched were healed!

WORD 2day: Monday, 5th week in Ordinary time

February 8, 2021: Genesis 1: 1-19; Mark 6: 53-56

As many as touched were healed... it did not matter whether they touched the Lord or the Lord touched them, they were healed. Both ways it is an act of faith: to touch the Lord and to allow the Lord to touch us! What a challenging invitation we have from the Word today - to touch the Lord in the core of our being, or to remain open to the Lord that the Lord may touch us! 

'Speak Lord, but a word and my soul shall be healed,' we pray! A word, a touch, a glimpse or a gaze, a whisper... that is all that it takes for us to receive the fullness, from the hands of the Lord who has made us and continues to guard and protect us. But how many blocks and abysses we create between the Lord and ourselves (Isa 59:2), not allowing the grace of God to reach us, not permitting the touch of the Lord to heal us, not remaining open to the Word of the Lord to form and transform us!

All that we need to know is to understand that we are handiworks of the Master Creator and live our lives according to the mind of the One who has loved us into existence with a well defined purpose and an eternal plan. How prepared are we to allow the Lord to touch us? How eager are we to touch the Lord with all sincerity of heart? Because, when the Lord touches, nothing remains the same; they change, they transform, they are recreated!

Send forth your Spirit, O Lord and the World shall be recreated!