Luke 13:12 · World English Bible
Luke 13:12 Meaning When Jesus Saw Her
When Jesus saw her, he called her, and said to her, “Woman, you are freed from your infirmity.”
What does Luke 13:12 mean?
A mind bent under an old weakness has forgotten it was ever free, and the bending has come to feel like who she is. But sickness is only a decision held so long it hardened into a body, and what one decision made another can undo.
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A mind bent under an old weakness has forgotten it was ever free, and the bending has come to feel like who she is. But sickness is only a decision held so long it hardened into a body, and what one decision made another can undo. To be called and looked upon by love is to be seen without the affliction, seen as the whole thing was never true, and in that seeing the mind straightens because it remembers there was nothing to carry.
Her release is not a reward for suffering well. It is the quiet recognition that the burden was chosen and can now be set down, and that love asks only that she let it go.
Woman: the part of the mind that has believed itself bound and forgotten its own innocence, waiting to be seen as whole.
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Live Luke 13:12 today
- Pick one label you use for yourself, anxious, lazy, too much, and for one day try describing what actually happened instead of reaching for the word. The word is a habit, not a diagnosis.
- When a friend talks about themselves harshly today, answer the person rather than the description. Tell them what you actually see, and mean it.
- Before a meeting or a call where you expect to feel small, take one breath and remember that nobody in the room gave you your worth, so nobody in the room can take it.
If I let go of the story of what is wrong with me, who is left?
The same truth in other traditions
Zen
A student asked to be set free from bondage. The teacher asked who was binding him, and in looking for the rope the student found his hands were already open.
Sufism · Rumi
The wound is the place where the light enters you. What you have been calling your ruin is the opening.
Hinduism · Upanishads
The self is not sick and was never sick. What suffers is the picture we have mistaken for ourselves.
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