Healing...


Each and every person in the world is not only in
need of healing but craves it. Some have fallen ill
or are injured and long for physical healing; others
yarn for emotional healing; still others desire rela-
tional healing. We could even say that health-meaning
complete physical and psychological well-being and
vitality - is a natural human inclination. we desire not
merely to stay alive but to really live. And we want
to live in a healthy relationship with others.
Consequently, we want peace and happiness, and
we intuitively understand healing and health to be an
integral part of the package.

Whatever our circumstance happens to be, illness
or injury, pain or anxiety or sadness, in the resurrec-
tion we will be completely and totally healed forever,
not simply physically but bodily and spiritually.
Those who love Christ get healed. Totally, always.
It is only a matter of time. And more than that,
Go's wondrous plan of salvation includes not simply
healing but restoration and re-creation as we become
like God and see Him as He is.

God, then, heals the restless and thirsty human heart,
not as a skillful physician who patches up damaged
tissue, but as the Divine Lover whose gift of him-
self communicates His own divine life to us,
which is itself restorative, and wondrous beyond
words.

From Catholic Holy Church onlne