What would you do if you were a healer?

We have all heard of healers – mostly we think of them as religious, spiritual, historical beings.  Or else they live somewhere far, far away.  But what if one were living “here,” wherever “here” is for you?  What do you suppose would happen if someone like Jesus was going around now, healing skin cancers, making the blind see, and the deaf hear?

In times before global television and Internet, a healer could lead a pretty quiet life.  He or she would be known locally, perhaps, but even if rumors circulated, what would they say?  “Well, he’s kinda tall and thin with brown hair and a beard…”  That would probably describe 90 percent of the men of Jesus’s day.

But today?  The story would be all over the globe in about a minute and a half.  Then, there’d be a stampede to get to this guy.  In no time at all, people would be lined up – or more likely mobbed up – outside his door.  How would you function at all as that healer?  You can’t possibly see and heal everyone who needs it.  So how do you decide?  How do you decide how much time you want to spend healing people – as opposed to enjoying your life, maybe reading a book, taking in a movie?  And how do you get people who are desperate for a cure so that they can “have a life” to recognize that you are entitled to a life, just the same as they are?

If you believe the bible, Jesus said that anything he did, anyone else could do, too.  So we are all potential healers.  What if those of us who could truly heal have decided the price is too steep to pay?  But that assumes that there is only a limited number of healers.

Let’s expand that thought:  What if ALL of us could be healers?  What if all of us ARE healers?  That’s an even scarier thought!  Because it leaves each of us responsible for our own healing.  I don’t think many of us really want to take on that responsibility.  Even if it’s just for ourselves.  It’s easier to blame someone else:  society, God, karma, fate, bad doctors, whatever.  Just as it’s easier to take a pill than to fix whatever we’ve done wrong to ourselves to begin with.

But play with it.  Think about what the world would be like if you could heal anything and anyone.  What would you do?