Healing
Twice this week I've been confronted again with the idea of miraculous healing. I remember wrestling with the Biblical accounts of healing versus my personal experience when Wes was much younger but I've rested in this place of slight disconnect for a while now. I sit in this place where I know that God is fully capable of miraculously healing Wesley's brain, but in doubt of if that is truly His will. My experience tells me that there are an abundance of blessings that have come from Wesley's life; that just as we all struggle living in this fallen world, Wesley's struggles are more visible than most; that he is no more in need of healing than you or I am just because his struggles are physically obvious to the world rather than hidden in his heart. Yet the New Testament has story after story of miraculous healing of illness and disability. The blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the sick are healed. There are stories that differ slightly from...