And while it may look bad to have a priest refereeing a boxing match, if it means bringing a little joy to kids who’ve been living in a warzone for the last seven years then you get over it! I spent some days with an Orthodox Jewish Rabbi in Iran last year. The scene reminded me very much of the time I visited an orphanage near Mashad (in Iran) and was greeted again by a group of young boys wearing boxing gloves. The time for healing is now! I look back now and am glad I made that decision. We can’t enter into the mind of Jesus, of course, but I wonder now when I read stories like this whether Jesus wrestled at all with how to respond. I was pretty sure Jesus would have refereed the boxing matches, and it was this Gospel reading (and any number of others like it) that immediately came to mind.
Did Jesus question Himself like that or נערות ליווי במרכז did He just think ‘these guys are idiots! We think of those religious leaders – the priests, the scribes, the Pharisees and the Levites – as a sort of gang of hoodlums, roaming around, trying to bring down Jesus. Think how many Gospel stories work like that – Jesus is saying something or helping someone or healing someone, and then some religious nut walks in and starts causing trouble. I don’t think Jesus would have any issue with forbidding mobile phone use on the Sabbath or any of those traditions, but what is significant is that when it comes to this woman – a woman who has been suffering for eighteen years from her paralysis – Jesus was not willing to let her continue on in that way any longer. You won’t find kids playing with their mobile phones on the Sabbath. You can imagine what it’s like there, נערות ליווי במרכז נערות ליווי באילת בבת ים especially on the Sabbath. You won’t have to tell anybody to stop playing computer games so that they can come for lunch.
I imagine the now-upright woman would have been leaping around and dancing, and the synagogue congregation would have been in an uproar as well – applauding and cheering and dancing along! We’re told that the woman had been crippled for eighteen years. It’s true, נערות ליווי בנתניה of course, that any number of horrible crimes around the world have been committed by people who claim to be Muslims, but when I think of my own history, how many Muslims have attacked and injured me or anyone that I really care about? No! When I think of all the people who have damaged me in my life – from those who crucified my mum when I was little, to those who made life so difficult for my dad (in both cases on account of their marriage breakdown), נערות ליווי במרכז to everybody I have struggled with since – they have all been good, נערות ליווי church-going, Christian people, every last one of them. It was reflecting on that last question though that clinched it for me. Lou looked closely at the girl, took a picture of her eyes with his phone-camera, and then announced that the girl had glaucoma and that she could be healed.
Lou then found himself being swamped, just as I continued to be swamped, with me doing the prayers and him giving the medical advice – a scene that was only interrupted when a fresh group of young men ran up and עיסוי אירוטי asked me if I would referee their boxing match, to which I readily agreed. Here is more info regarding נערות ליווי בהרצליה take a look at our own webpage. I then remembered though that Dr Lou Lewis was a part of our group and I called Lou over. There apparently was a church service going on somewhere but the only people there to greet us was a group of young boys wearing boxing gloves! I said, ‘the problem with going to 7-11 is that we’ll lose fifteen minutes and end up getting to piano lesson late’, to which she replied, ‘but it’s tradition! There was indeed a service going on somewhere in the background, but where we were, surrounded by local young people, there was only good-hearted merriment and lots of punches being thrown. In the case of that young boxer though, his response was to punch me straight in the groin!
Happily though, this time the young man responded according to protocol and targeted my hands. In the Gospel stories though, time and time again, the enemy is us! The enemy is us! And then parents started bringing their children to me, asking me to pray for them, which, of course, I did, and then I heard someone say «bring out the blind girl. Let him pray for her», and at that point I started wondering whether I was in over my head! I can’t read this passage without being reminded of my recent experience in Jodidi – a little village on the road to Damascus (in Syria). It’s simply that we show too little compassion. No! From the perspective of Jesus, her healing cannot wait one more day or one more hour or one more minute! We were both speaking at the same conference on the same day. The problem is that we miss the commandment of God by clinging to the precepts of men.
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