To touch and to be healed...

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

February 10, 2025: Genesis 1: 1-19; Mark 6: 53-56

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! '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.

We begin from today to listen to and reflect on the book of genesis. What marvellous accounts as the basis of our faith experience! God reigns... God holds everything in being... God manifests God's glory and might in everything. When God said a word it was done. And when Jesus came, it was enough people touched him, mighty things happened. There was a spiritual connect between the people and the Lord. That spiritual connect is what we call faith, the experience of faith.

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! 

All those who touched him were cured; and all those whom he touched were healed! Let us seek his touch this day.