AND SHE PONDERED: Encountering God in Everyday Life
Joy, Hope, Strength, and Ponderings!
I titled this “Touching Lepers” and I don’t think I even mentioned the scripture in Matthew where Jesus comes down after the Sermon on the Mount and a man with leprosy asks Jesus to heal him. Jesus does the unthinkable: he reaches out and touches him.
Jesus saw beyond the disease to the person underneath. Here is to looking beyond the surface to those we encounter:
I'm an ordained Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) minister, an attorney licensed in Tennessee, a mother of two grown children, and grandmother to one child with special needs who has helped me to be stretched, to ponder, to pray like never before, and to savor every blessing. View more posts
