“It’s fine”from “Adventures of the Teen Jesus”

Previously

Healers were highly valued. Many were very good. It was likely that with luck one could live to be, oh maybe sixty? Or older.

Jesus thought about healing. Some could not be healed: infants slain by angry kings, felons headless in the market, old lost day by day. Death was mystery. But it was real as anything.

Was life so important? It was doomed to end. Did living matter that much? Did time make a real difference? Thirty years? Forty? More? Less? Jesus thought life is a school. Live and learn.

Healing assumed life has a value. What was it?

Senses? Seeing. Hearing. Touching. Feeling. Maybe senses.

Or power? Moving. Walking. Running. Climbing. Maybe power.

Wholeness? Healing made the broken whole. With healing, a person moved, saw, heard.

Will?

Abba said will heals. Will pushes you ahead. Inner force. Will moves.

Was sleep life?

Sleep did not push or move. It was different. What was it?

Jesus was confused. He thought of heaven. Being heavenly. What did that have to do with healing? Or wholeness?

It was becoming too hard for him. He was almost to his own house. “Ow!” he cried.

“What’s the matter Jesus?” his father called.

“Ow!”

“What is it?”

“I hurt my hand on the gate. It was stupid. I wasn’t thinking.” Jesus sighed. He shook his head. The pain was very strong.

But something happened immediately. It seemed beyond belief. He heard himself asking, no demanding, telling Abba: “Make it go away.” Insistent. Almost petulant. Close to unpleasant. Jesus spoke now to the pain. “Go away. Go away. Go away. Now!”

“Is it serious?” Joseph called.

Jesus stood there silently. Amazed.

“It’s gone,” he said. “It’s nothing. It’s fine.”

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