Healing is a mystery. We don’t understand it. All we can do is to prepare our bodies to receive it. That’s what doctors do. They do it with surgery, with medicine, and therapy.
They prepare our bodies to receive the gift of healing. And that’s all you can do too. You can prepare to receive the gift through faith, through prayer, and through openness to the power in creation that heals.
And more often than not, what we call medicine stimulates the processes of natural healing or combats the forces which seek to hinder those processes. Hence, all men and women and children are cured by the Healer within.
After performing a successful operation where the patient did not have a fifty percent chance, the surgeon said, “I only attended him…..God healed him.”
Time doesn’t heal all wounds….Jesus heals all wounds.
My Commentary:
This reflection invites us to humility before one of life’s greatest mysteries: healing.
We often speak as if healing is something we produce, something we control. But in truth, we participate in it more than we cause it. Doctors prepare the body. They remove what is damaged, support what is weak, and create the conditions for recovery. But even the finest skill cannot command healing — it can only make room for it.
The same is true in the spiritual life.
We cannot force healing of the heart, the soul, or even the body. But we can prepare for it. Through faith, we open ourselves to hope. Through prayer, we make space for grace. Through trust, we allow something greater than ourselves to work within us. There is, as the reflection suggests, a “Healer within” — a life-giving power placed in us by God.
The surgeon’s words are deeply honest: “I only attended him…God healed him.” That is not a dismissal of human effort, but a recognition of its limits. It is a confession that behind every recovery is a mystery we do not fully understand.
And perhaps that is where peace is found — not in having all the answers, but in knowing that we are not alone in the process.
We do what we can. We prepare. We care. We trust.
And then, quietly, healing comes — often as gift more than achievement.
Reflect on a time when YOU felt “a Healer within” for your body, your heart, your soul.
TRYING TO BE HAPPY WITHOUT A SENSE OF GOD’S PRESENCE IS LIKE TRYING TO HAVE A BRIGHT DAY WITHOUT THE SUN.
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