Images of life and healing

There is something about medical series and British ones at that. I have been watching The Royal which is a spin off of Heartbeat (a very long lived series.) A lot of emotion in the last episode where the female doctor with recent health issues of her own is found crying. She said - is not that one does after a crisis like this? Her very unemotional husband is seen comforting her.

Another very real image of healing as a Canadian medical disaster relief team flies out of Vancouver airport (where I am headed in a few weeks time) to go to Japan and the hardest hit area of the country where this dreadful earthquake and tsunami hit. Helping as one can.

A priest who works full time for the government has been attending our parish for some time now. In the last while she has preached, been with Dana after presenting her difficult report to the parish, leading the healing Eucharist last evening. I know her from many years ago. She is a gentle caring presence in our midst at this time of healing and transition. I told her this and she said it was time for her to be more available.

So the church moves along in its calendar from Ash Wednesday into Lent and looks forward to Easter. St. John’s has many components to all the services and music and everything else. Instead of saying - what is going to happen - I can and I will offer my time and energy to be part of the solution. I need to tell those in charge that I am available to help in any way possible.