Reflecting on the tenth Sunday in ordinary time (part 3).

Where we have come from (readings for Sunday Jun 9):

1 Kings 17.17-24

Psalm 30

Galatians 1:11-24

Luke 7:11-17

Readings for today:

Psalm 68:1-10, 19-20

Jeremiah 8.14-22

Luke 8.40-56

Brief thoughts for today:

Curiously, the story of the healing of Jairus' daughter as told by Luke  does not get a look in on Sundays in year C - the year of Luke, so it is good to visit here as we continue to reflect on the raising of Widow's on Sunday. As he watched the calamity unfold in Jerusalem and Judea, Jeremiah cried out: is there no balm in Gilead? Why is there no healing for the wound of my people? Though Jeremiah would never see it, Judea was to receive partial healing at the end of exile in Babylon, but it would seem that the real healing that he longed for comes in Jesus, to the household of Jairus, to the woman with a persistent bleed, to Gilead, Judea, and to us.

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