Touch his cloak...

"The woman, realizing what had happened to her, approached in fear and trembling. She fell down before Jesus and told him the whole truth."
Mark 5:33

The woman with the hemorrhage wanted to keep a low profile, certainly. She was, after all, considered "unclean" and shouldn't have been out and about with others in the first place. Touching Jesus the way she did would render Jesus "unclean," too. So she very quietly and secretively touched his cloak, hoping against hope that his power would heal her. But Jesus foiled her plan when he felt the healing power go out of him and he wanted to know who had touched him. Imagine her fear! Imagine the courage it took her to admit it was she would had touched him and made him unclean! But the healing power of Jesus healed all of her, not just her hemorrhaging. She came forward and courageously "told him the whole truth." Can you imagine how freeing that was for her? Especially when Jesus praised her faith and held her up as an example to others? Pray-As-You-Go invited us this morning to sit with Jesus and tell him the whole truth of our lives. We need not fear that our deepest, darkest secrets would render Jesus "unclean" or even startle him. Jesus already knows them and the masks we wear to face the world are completely unnecessary for Jesus. He loves us in all of our uncleanness, illnesses, crabbiness, faults and failings. Jesus just invites us to touch his cloak. Can we do that today? Love, heidi