Looking For Healing

Today's Gospel finds Jesus curing a deaf man also burdened with a speech impediment. (Mk 7:31-37). Evidently this was one of those "impossible cases", but the people knew exactly where to turn: directly to Jesus.
As we look at our own lives or at the world around us, including the Church itself, the need for a cure from our own deafness and our own inability to speak is clear. No self-help book, no long hours in the gym or at yoga classes will bring us the cure we need.  It will come only if we turn to Jesus as the people did  and in  HIS  way,  separating the man from the crowd, touching his ears and spitting on his tongue.  To be cured, we need to submit ourselves to Jesus and the way and in the time he wishes to do it.  Perhaps we need a retreat, or at least a withdrawal from our ordinary overly-cluttered routine; perhaps we need  touch and personal contact with Jesus through the Eucharist, a spiritual director or advisor, but most of all, we need the faith and conviction that Jesus can and will do it. As the crowd begged Jesus to heal the man,  may we not be ashamed to so beg. We will then be able to join them and acclaim: 'He has done all things well.  He makes the dear hear and the mute speak." (Mk 7:37)
Bro. Rene