Healing the wound of isolation

Morning: Psalms 121, 122, 123; Isaiah 63:1-5; Revelation 2:18-29

Evening: Psalms 131, 132; John 5:1-15

The lame man at the pool of Siloam, ill for 38 years, when Jesus asks him if he wants to be made well, responds: “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me.”  What a stark phrase: “I have no one …” His most painful affliction is his isolation. For this, we can all be healers; we can all help heal the wound of isolation by restoring to community those who, because of illness, are alone.