Today's daily lesson comes from Matthew 9:20:
"Just then a woman who had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding came up behind him. She touched the fringe of his robe."
Yesterday's sermon was on the bleeding and marginalized woman who in desperation came and touched the tassel of Jesus' prayer shawl and was healed. I said she was a woman on the fringe who acted on the fringe of his shawl; and that she was holding on to life by only a thread -- the thread of prayer.
After church I went and visited a young man who was in a car accident two weeks ago and is still mostly unconscious. Completely unsolicited and without any knowledge of today's sermon, his mother pointed to the prayer shawl members of our church brought him. Then she told me that the one thing that seems to keep her boy calm is shawl -- especially the tassels which she said he plays with with his fingers.
Where I come from we call that a God-Thing.
Keep hanging on brother; your faith will save you.
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