To Trust Is Healing Hope

“Daughter,” he said to her with great loving kindness in his eyes, “your trust in me has made you well. Now go in peace, for you have been healed of your disease.” – Mark (War Club Tells the Good Story) 5:34 (First Nations Version).

As a crowd followed Creator Sets Free, one woman was desperate for healing after suffering twelve years of an incurable bleeding disease, which had kept her isolated from community. She spent all her money on healers but was never healed.

How many of us have felt just like this woman, experiencing the isolation and desolation of loneliness? How have our lands felt under the diseases of colonization, control, oppression, and genocide?

The woman heard that Creator Sets Free was coming, and even though she was considered unclean by tribal law, she pressed through the crowd and touched his clothes. Right away, the blood disease stopped, and she was healed. There is hope for us and for the land with Creator Sets Free. His resurrection helps us to believe that authentic healing for our communities is possible. Just like the woman of the endless bleeding, Creator Sets Free shows kindness to those who suffer with agony and grief.

To trust is to lean on Creator Sets Free as our healer and peace. To trust is to go to him with our dancing prayers, even when our hearts are heavy. To trust in the resurrection of Creator Sets Free is a healing hope.

Prayer

We give you our trust.
We receive your healing hope.