Evening: Psalms 10, 11; Luke 8:40-56
Jesus raises a dead 12-year-old girl and heals a woman with a menstrual disorder. He touches a corpse and a menstruating woman! This is shocking for his society - both actions rendered him ‘ritually unclean’. Yet here Jesus opens up a future of possibilities for both women, indeed for all women who experience the confining constraints that society may impose on them. Jesus routinely defies traditions that have lost their meaning and that now just hold people captive. Laws that may once have served a purpose grow moribund. Discipleship means knowing when it is time to move on.
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