September 21.  As the family drove along they commented.   “You know I find this time out together is a kind of inner healing process. We’re in nature most of the time, mountains, miles of veld, sea but also what they call ’urban sprawl.’” Pauline’s statement got them thinking. “Is just being a healing experience and do we heal one another’s hurts?” Michael asked. “I’ve got a hurt, I scraped my knee when we were climbing that koppie the other day.  Can someone please heal that,” Melody asked. “I’ll look in the medicine box,” Mom said. But Melody answered, “No thanks, Jesus sent the apostles without any medicine. Maybe he can do mine too.”  

Scripture: Jesus gave them power and authority over all demons and to cure diseases and he sent them out to preach the Kingdom. “Take nothing with you,” he told them.”  Luke 9:1-6.  Pope Francis: Patriarch Bartholomew asks us to replace consumption with sacrifice, greed with generosity, wastefulness with a spirit of sharing, learning to give and not simply to give up.  It is a way of loving and moving away from what I want to what God’s world needs.  LS9. Sunday, like the Jewish Sabbath is meant to be a day which heals our relationships with God, with ourselves, with others and with the world.   LS237

ECO-TIP AND PRAYER:  Healing the damage to the world demands changes in behaviour. Discuss, adopt and promote the approach “:Reuse-Reduce-Recycle” as part of a pray and act campaign. Pray, Glory be to the Father…………………