Healing The Whole Person
~ “Woe is me, I am doomed!”
Initially, these words from Isaiah made me laugh. Yet, after a few moments consideration, I can almost hear the prophet wailing aloud, like a pleading or a longing from the depth of his soul. Can you?
This plea resonates within me. I know this longing. It’s a longing for relief, for clarity, for cleansing, for unity, for joy, for understanding … the list goes on. But if I narrow it down to two words … I think they are … Healing and Wholeness.
It’s quite an amazing time we live in, isn’t it? We can literally see and hear the pain and suffering all around us and within us. We are wounded and fragmented people. We don’t come into this world unaffected by sin and separation initiated by generations before us. If we don’t know this from the Genesis story of creation or from the Catechism, we know this to be true deep in our souls.
Just think about those two words … Healing … Wholeness…
What if our world was healed and whole? What if you and I were healed and whole?
Isaiah KNOWS the depth of his woundedness and cries out! And yet, he proclaims that his eyes have seen the King!! The Lord! And because of his proclamation … his lips are healed and purified with a burning coal from the altar of the God of Mercy!
Like Isaiah, we too can be purified from our wounds. Do you know that we have incredible access to healing and wholeness – in body, mind and spirit!? Most especially in the body, blood, soul and divinity of our Lord in the Eucharist … and in the sacrament of Reconciliation.
My husband and I also have experienced the transformative healing power of God’s grace through a series from the John Paul II Institute entitled, “Healing the Whole Person”. So much so that we are presenting an 8-week series on Sunday nights during Lent at Sacred Heart in Valley Park beginning Feb 16th. Click the link for more information. All are welcome! And, if you want to know more, find me.
I know that God reveals Himself to us in every moment. I have seen Him with my own eyes – my Lord and God! Without a doubt, God called me to St. Margaret to be your Assistant Principal.
I have a framed prayer in my office that reads:
Today Lord – work in me.
Today Lord – work through me.
Today Lord – work in spite of me.
Do you hear Him calling YOU? Maybe even In SPITE of You? He is! Here I am, Lord – send ME!
Throughout the year, we present an article in the bulletin each week on a variety of topics, written by a member of our Parish staff or ministries on a rotating basis.