Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Faith of Action

Imagine this:
A fire drill goes off in a fifteen-story building, and it is raining outside.  Everybody rushes down the stairwell, shielding their ears from an alarm that reverberates very strongly due to the architecture of the building.  There is only one covered passageway outside of the building, and everybody is jam packed in that one area, waiting for the "all clear" announcement in order to go back inside.
Jesus was in that situation in today's gospel.  The key difference is that Jesus, our Lord, was running with the crowd, and a woman touched His robe.  She took the only chance that she had to touch His robe, and Jesus blessed her right then and there.
There is so much motion in this gospel, and it makes me think about how our own faith should be: active, running, with motion.  We are all in desperate need of Jesus.  Instead of sitting and waiting for a miracle to happen amidst a moment of distress, why don't we seize that moment, that fleeting moment down the fifteen flights of stairs, to hold onto our Savior?

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