Do you want to be made well?

Easter VI (May 25, 2025)

"Do you want to be made well?" Jesus asks the man who has been sick for 38 years!

The obvious answer should be "yes", but it isn't.  In our lives too, we often fall into cycles and situations in which we are not well, but we aren't quite capable of rising above the situation.

Into this situation comes Jesus, willing to offer compassion and challenge beyond anything we've experienced before.

The art is by Nathan Greene.  You can purchase it here.  I am sensitive to images of Jesus in which Jesus looks European instead of middle Eastern, but I loved the combination of compassion and power in this artist's rendition.