Words? Or the Word?
Many of us spend a lifetime, or half a lifetime, thinking that life’s truths lie out there, elsewhere, away from home – far from where we are. But then, some blessed day that comes out of nowhere, you wake up and say, “Surely the Lord is in this place – and I did not know it!” That becomes your Jacob moment. Jacob, grandson of Abraham, spoke those words when he woke from a dramatic vision/dream (Genesis 28).
The woman in today’s Gospel reading waited 18 years for healing. But on that day Jesus found her. That was her Jacob moment. Surely God was in that place…..
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