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February 27

Healing

Healing has many dimensions. While there may be need for physical healing, there may also be need for emotional

restoration. And full restoration is always relational.

St. Anselm in his writings on prayer, pens one of great tenderness. He writes, “run under the wings of Jesus your Mother and lament your grief under his feathers. Ask that your wounds may be healed and that,

comforted, you may live again.”58

This prayer recognizes the importance of shelter, nurture, and homecoming in the healing process. The language in this prayer is significantly feminine, relational, and profoundly healing.

Unwellness can come from many sources, but it can also come from a sense of lostness, alienation, and fragmentation. It is often the sad result of relationship breakdown. We don’t live well when we are isolated and alone.

Christ is the great healer and restorer and one of the key dimensions of the healing process is to find comfort through closeness, through

acceptance, through embrace. In this embrace we are invited to cry out our hurts, sorrows, and pain. We are invited to speak our doubts and to express our hopes.

In being heard and embraced we are healed. Therefore, the community of faith needs to be a place of welcome and honesty. It needs to be a place where we are accepted with all our hurts and needs. It must be a place where masks can be dropped and where our true self, rather than our social self, is in the forefront.

Thought

Healing is being comforted into wholeness.