Daily Meditation: The Healing Touch

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Sunday March 25, 2012   The Healing Touch  Touch, yes, touch, speaks the wordless words of love.  We receive so much touch when we are babies and so little when we are adults.  Still, in friendship touch often gives more life than words.  A friend's hand stroking our back, a friend's arms resting on our shoulder, a friend's fingers wiping our tears away, a friend's lips kissing our forehead --- these are true consolation.  These moments of touch are truly sacred.  They restore, they reconcile, they reassure, they forgive, they  heal. Everyone who touched Jesus and everyone whom Jesus touched were healed.  God's love and power went out from him (see Luke 6:19).   When a friend touches us with free, nonpossessive love, it is God's incarnate love that touches us and God's power that heals us.   Comment on this Daily Meditation. Journey with us this Lent. Reflect on COMPASSION.   Visit our website for inspiration, resources, news, events, community. Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible ©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Photo by V. Dobson.

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