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Prodigal:\u00a0 I’m ready.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 For what?<\/p>\n

Prodigal:\u00a0 Your story.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

She knew.\u00a0 What did she know.\u00a0 She knew what the others in the crowd did not know.\u00a0 How did she know?\u00a0 She had been watching him.\u00a0 She heard the way he spoke.\u00a0 She listened to the quietness and then the loudness of his voice at times.<\/p>\n

She also would look into his eyes.\u00a0 Those eyes.\u00a0 Well they could tell a story.\u00a0 They always told a story.\u00a0 They were filled with a love she had never known before.\u00a0 They were filled with compassion and a peace.\u00a0 How could his eyes say so much even when he was just standing there?\u00a0 How could he seem to be speaking to her with so many others around?<\/p>\n

Of course she also saw what he did.\u00a0 That was why there was a crowd.\u00a0 That was why there always seemed to be a crowd.\u00a0 They were there for what he did.\u00a0 She was there because she knew who he was.\u00a0 She knew who he was without even meeting him.\u00a0 She knew that this is where she must be.<\/p>\n

There it was disrupting her thoughts again.\u00a0 There it was taken away the peace and the comfort.\u00a0 It was the pain that was always there for the past 12 years.\u00a0 It had caused her to be different.\u00a0 The others knew.\u00a0 She tried to hide it.\u00a0 She tried to live normal.\u00a0 She could not.\u00a0 There\u00a0was the pain and always the bleeding.\u00a0 At first she thought this would only last for a short time.\u00a0 This was only\u00a0 a minor detail in her life.\u00a0 This would be soon forgotten as she got on with her life.\u00a0 After the many physicians and bills later she was in pain alone.<\/p>\n

Now though was the added pain of rejection of not being able to be normal.\u00a0 Not being able to\u00a0laugh and joke and have hope that tomorrow will be a good day.\u00a0 The pain was all around her.\u00a0 The pain made her cry out when she was alone and there was no one\u00a0to hear her despair.\u00a0 Her cries would\u00a0say in sorrow.\u00a0 How did she get here?\u00a0 How\u00a0can she make it till tomorrow?\u00a0 Those had been the words that \u00a0always remains in her soul no matter what is going on around her.\u00a0 It creates an emptiness that allows her to know that she is not whole.\u00a0 That her part of her is no longer living.\u00a0 That is a part of her is so dark that lightness has not been able to touch it.<\/p>\n

What was she doing now? \u00a0She knew that today was the\u00a0time.\u00a0 She had been crying out to him in her dreams.\u00a0 She had been crying out to him while the pain engulfed her whole body.\u00a0 The answer she got was to touch him would make her whole.\u00a0 She had told no one of the dreams.\u00a0 She had told\u00a0no one of the answer.<\/p>\n

Of course people were talking about him.\u00a0 Look at all he did.\u00a0 They talked as if he was from God, they talked as if he was from the devil.\u00a0 They also just talked of their own selfishness.\u00a0 Some only wanted to be around him to meet others of influence.\u00a0 Some just wanted the benefits from some of the people he knew.\u00a0 Some though knew him like she did.\u00a0 Some knew that he was the one.\u00a0 Something in her dreams though told her that only she knew that touching him would make her whole.<\/p>\n

She was slow and small.\u00a0 She had learned over the years how to best avoid attention and learned how to be quiet.\u00a0 Sometimes the attention for her difference hurt her worse than the pain in her body.\u00a0 So she learned early on how to become unnoticeable with people around.\u00a0 She had learned how to get places and not be seen.\u00a0 So it was this skill on this day that slowly brought her threw the crowd.<\/p>\n

The day was sunny with a couple of clouds in the sky.\u00a0 The sun had been up for several hours.\u00a0 He had been busy the day before and she knew that today would be busy as well.\u00a0 She knew that today was the day she had to touch him.<\/p>\n

She started in the back of the crowd and made slow invisible like movements to the front.\u00a0 There he was walking.\u00a0 His garments appeared normal but not him.\u00a0 He was the man that she had learned to love in her dreams.\u00a0 He was the man that had given her hope while she called out to him alone.\u00a0 Now, her life was going to change forever.<\/p>\n

She took a deep breath and touched the border of his garment.\u00a0 That was all she needed.\u00a0 She knew he was that powerful.\u00a0 As her fingers lightly touched his robe so not to disturb him she felt it immediately.\u00a0\u00a0 The feeling was\u00a0covered\u00a0in warmth.\u00a0\u00a0There was a peace and lightness in that moment.\u00a0 There was no darkness and all pain was gone.\u00a0 Anything negative had vanished in the instant that she had touched him.\u00a0\u00a0So in that moment she knew the impossible\u00a0had happened.<\/p>\n

She was whole!\u00a0 She was healed!\u00a0 She had just touched the divine and was made alive!\u00a0 There was no pain but more than that, there was no loneliness.\u00a0 She had never known love like this.\u00a0 She had never known the healing she needed for her loneliness.<\/p>\n

Before she could think more he spoke.\u00a0 ”\u00a0 Who touched my clothes?”\u00a0 The other men with him did not see her and quickly try to say nobody.\u00a0 She sighed with relief.\u00a0 She just wanted to disappear. She did not want to upset this man who had given her so much.\u00a0 She did not want to disturb what he had to do.\u00a0 Then he spoke again “Who touched me?”\u00a0 That is when he turned to look at me.<\/p>\n

He looked right at me.\u00a0 The woman who had learned how to disappear from everyone could not disappear from him.\u00a0 Before even taking another breath she fell down at his feet with fear and trembling and the words came out before she could even think.\u00a0 Then the man who she had been watching.\u00a0 The man who she had known in her dreams looked her in her eyes and with the voice full of compassion and love said, “Daughter, thy faith hath, made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy affliction.<\/p>\n

As she walked away.\u00a0 She did not try to hide.\u00a0 She did not watch others and their lives.\u00a0 She walked away whole with a smile on her lips and tears slowly falling down her cheek.\u00a0 She walked away knowing that she would see him again.\u00a0 He would come again for her and then there would be no more separation and he would love her for eternity.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Matthew 9:20-22<\/p>\n

And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment.\u00a0 For she said within herself,\u00a0 If I may but touched the hem of his garment.\u00a0 I shall be whole.\u00a0 But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be of good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole.\u00a0 And the woman was made whole from that hour.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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