FEELING WHOLE AGAIN

A DESIRE TO BE WHOLE AGAIN
Many of us have
Been ILL during
Our life
Many of us deal
With a CHRONIC ILLNESS
Of some type or
Chronic limitations
In our life-
We desire to be
WHOLE AGAIN
"Jesus said to him=
'Rise=take up your mat=
And walk'"                                                                                                                                                      John 5:8
Today we read about
A man
Lying by the pool
At Bethesda
This man has lived
With a CRIPPLED BODY
For 38 years-
Yet Jesus asks him
"DO you want to be well?"                                                                                                                    John 5:6
I have been dealing with
A CHRONIC ILLNESS
For 42 years
IF I were this man-
I would scream out=
"YOU BET I DO"
Yes I have a DESIRE
To be WHOLE AGAIN
I have a desire
To be well again
Jesus saw into the man's heart
Jesus SEES into our hearts-
He recognizes our DESIRE
For WHOLENESS
He knows we all
Want to be WELL AGAIN
"For they are life
To those who find them
And health
To one's WHOLE BODY"                                                                                                                   Proverbs 4:22
"Why should you be
Beaten anymore?
Why do you
Persist in rebellion?
Your WHOLE head
Is injured=
Your WHOLE heart afflicted"                                                                                                           Isaiah 1:5
"May God himself
The God of peace
Sanctify you
Through and through
May your WHOLE SPIRIT=
Sole and body
Be kept blameless                  
At the COMING of
OUR Lord Jesus Christ"                                                                                                        1 Thessalonians 5:23
Jesus HEALED this man's
Crippled body=
Jesus set into motion-
A kind of resurrection
For this man
A journey of HOPE
And HEALING=sometimes I wish
He would do the same
For you and me
For we all have
The desire to be
WHOLE AGAIN
"You Lord=
Hear the DESIRE
Of the afflicted
You encourage them
And you listen
To their cry"                                                                                                                                     Psalm 10:17
"What the wicked dread
Will overtake them
What the righteous DESIRE
Will be granted"                                                                                                                              Proverbs 10:24
I was GIVEN THE MIRACLE
Of a second chance at life
And though I have NEVER-
Been granted WHOLE HEALTH=
I have been ENCOURAGED
By God and others
And I live in communion
With the FAMILY OF GOD
And the FAMILY of others
Feeling WHOLE ONCE AGAIN=
I hope that you
Feel it too
In Jesus' name and in the name=of our=MIRACLE WORKING FATHER
Robert P. Wallman
3-31-19

Ps         INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Chris Koellhoffer, I.H.M.