Crowding

During my morning prayer (which, yes, is one of my 52 things to do, and yes, it has rocked my world, and yes, I have done it everyday, and yes, God is MOVING in my life), I read the daily mass readings.

Today in Mark (3:7-12), I read about Jesus going to the sea with his disciples, and they asked for a boat because they were afraid the large crowds were going to crush him. People had heard from all over about how he had cured many and they were all pushing in on him, just wanting to touch him and be healed--for their unclean spirits that bound them to be released from them.

When I prayed about that scripture, I kept thinking back to the Eucharist. Today, the world has so many people who are just bound with illnesses, unclean spirits, burdens, and yet, I asked myself, why aren't people running and crowding into the chapels or the masses to be present with Jesus, and even better, take him into their bodies at mass, to be healed? Why am I not readily anxious to run there on the days I feel terribly burdened? Is it because I don't have that full belief in his healing power, or the healing power of the Eucharist? Is the reason people aren't running to him in the Eucharist because they don't know the truth about the Eucharist? Are we failing to share this truth with others? What's the gap? Where have we gone wrong?

As I sat last night in Adoration, it's clear to see the healing power there. Even without Him speaking words of peace in a big booming voice to me, I can never sit there in His presence and not really feel like all really IS going to be okay. That He is present. That He will heal. That He will touch the hearts of the burdened souls that sit amongst me there.

I pray that I can just truly believe in his healing powers. That I can bring it to others and that we can share the truth that Jesus is here for us--just like he was there for all those amongst him as he walked with the disciples--we only have to seek him in the Eucharist.