Image Description: Two hands come together to hold a red, heart-shaped object with two band aids on it, crossed like an x. The hands are in black-and-white, and the heart and band aids are in color.
This is a simple thought, but I think it’s beautiful and often true to the experience of life.
The verb ‘heal’ is both active and passive.
At times, we say,
“Heal,” i.e. “be healed.”
At other times, we say,
“Heal,” i.e. “act as a healer.”
Healing is –
Something we receive,
Something we take in,
Something we allow to sit with us,
Something we invite inside, and it makes a home with us.
Healing is –
Something we cultivate,
Something we enact alongside others,
Something we breathe into the world,
Something we work at, like kneading dough.
Frederick Buechner says that our calling is found in “the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
It makes me wonder. . .
What needs are present in our own lives?
How can we receive healing?
What needs are present in the world?
How can we work as healers?
And. . .
. . . Are there any intersections where those could come together as a calling?
I found this image here.
This quote is part of Frederick Buechner’s book, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC.
Smuggling Grace 