Reach out and touch someone
This Sunday’s lectionary readings give us two very, very different healings from Jesus. One a Gentile, the other likely a Jew. One a woman, the other a man. One in Jesus’s own territory, one far away. One that was a remote healing, the other a very physical healing. These two stories were packaged together by the lectionary, different as they are. You gotta wonder why? What does it mean?