Daily Reflection Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Do you want to be well? This seems like such a simple question to answer. Of course, we all want to be well. When we read this passage do, we only think about our physical well-being or do we also focus on our souls.


These days we can go for blood tests and scans. We can go to the doctor and get a script for medication to help cure what is making us sick. How often do we get a soul checkup?

How often do we go to reconciliation?


The crippled man in the passage lay sick and it was the divine physician who treated him. His script was to pick up his mat, walk and sin no more. How joyful he must have been to follow those instructions. I do not know about you, but I would have been dancing for joy!


One of the beautiful gifts offered each lent is that we can get a check up and be healed by the divine physician. Every Monday in most churches we can go to reconciliation. How beautiful that the invite to these reconciliation sessions is titled Welcome Home to Healing. We can go weekly to any priest and celebrate the gift of forgiveness in the Sacrament of Reconciliation. We can get a soul checkup, receive a script and go to try to be better.


We are not perfect, and Jesus knew that. It is why he gave us this gift of forgiveness and healing. I think Jesus is overjoyed when we go for our soul checkups. Overjoyed when he sees us receiving his grace and forgiveness through the Sacrament of healing. In a world that seems to be unforgiving we Catholics are blessed with a Sacrament that is always forgiving. God is always waiting for us to return and for us to ask for forgiveness.


It can be unnerving to think about going to someone and bearing our souls and laying out all our faults, but Jesus will be right there with us. Think about all he went through so that we can have peace, grace and eternal life. In several places in the Bible, Jesus says “do not be afraid.” In John 14:27 Jesus says "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." 


Below is a link to a beautiful song that I often listen to and pray with. Who am I by Castin Crowns. I am also pasting by favorite verse.

Who am I, that the eyes that see my sin would look on me with love
And watch me rise again
Who am I, that the voice that calmed the sea would call out through the rain
And calm the storm in me?
Not because of who I am
But because of what you've done
Not because of what I've done
But because of who you are.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C53GgUJ6y-Y