Restoration

Saturday June 14th, Matthew 9: 20 Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. 21 She said to herself, "If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed." 22 Jesus turned and saw her. "Take heart, daughter," he said, "your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed from that moment. This story in the middle of another healing story is about restoration. We have all the elements. A ruler at the top of society whose daughter has died and a woman whose bleeding has made her dead to society. Jesus restores both women to new life, but more importantly, the society is restored from it’s rejecting. Jesus was not made unclean from her touching his cloak. Society was not made unclean from touching her. Jesus was not made unclean from touching the rulers daughter who had died. The ruler was not made unclean by running to her and embracing her with tears of joy. What was healed most on that day were the divisions that divide us. The work goes on ever before us.