Excerpt from Anatomy of Caring, Laurence's journal:
June 8, 2010
Jesus tells the man at the pool(Gospel of John Chapter5) to pick up his mat and walk. The man had been afflicted for thirty-eight years, a chronic condition for such a long time. He is not aware of who Jesus is, but still does what he says. Jesus tells him to stop sinning or something even worse will happen.
I know that place of resistance. The head and body want to resist the light for fear of death. Yet as I read these words I recognize the places of resistance where Christ has worn away the fear with pure love. His words in this chapter are about the authority of the Father. Yet his revolutionary awareness had to be threatening to the human mind.
In my own walk with polycythemia vera and leukemia, death has been the great fear, release, and opportunity. Now I see it as the hope that Christ came and lived and died and was resurrected for me! I embrace that resurrection in each prayer and meditation, each test and procedure of this walk.
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