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I am ill today in my stomach and head, having perhaps consumed foods my body ought not have consumed. Ans so now everything aches and I want only to rest or be able to eat, but nothing now seems good to digest. As such my vulnerability and weaknesses make themselves apparent. I don't entirely bemoan my ailments for they are a touchstone of the Gospel: "The sick need a physician, not those well off." Christ calls the sick and sinners and makes them whole. He lifts up those who show mercy to others, not sacrificing them for their own benefit. In the hours off ill feeling, may I not curse but remember God's mercy with wholeness being make real in me.

(Genesis 23:1-4, 19, 24:1-8, 62-67, Psalm 106, Matthew 9:9-13)