+ Our readings today reflect a primal human urge that we all
have “to reach out and touch
someone” – we find attractive, admirable, lovable, consoling, healing: someone
we like to be around.
The crowds that followed Jesus
wanted to do the same thing. This crowd was different than other spectators and
gawkers. This people were touched at their core already by Jesus – and it is
because of their newfound, real, spiritual connectedness to him that they
wanted to follow him around and to “touch him back” – by their attentiveness,
their adulation, their ohhs and ahhs at what he said and did: especially in his
poignant “sermons” or reflections on the true nature of human life, and his
miracles of healing and restoration, demonstrating his power over human life
and nature.
These people knew that Jesus
is the one their hearts had been waiting for for centuries – because he is the
one, the only one, who could save them from all they needed saving from who
approached God.
By ourselves we cannot “reach
God” – in a truly deep and effective way; but through his Son – through Jesus –
yes, we can reach him, we can touch hear him, we can see him, we can touch him –
and he us.
This we celebrate today – this
we thank God for today – this good news we must share with others today.
In a world that reflects the
undeniable and real presence of the Evil one – in many ways and venues – we must
confidently reach out and grasp the hand of the Lord who desires with all his
heart to reach back and save us – from all who would harm us.
Save
us, O Lord, our God, our Savior and our FRIEND!
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