Healing
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Each service offers reflective music and, if we so choose, an opportunity to receive prayer through the laying on of hands, or anointing with oil. The service lasts thirty minutes and is followed by tea and coffee.
We could probably all use a little healing, whether our sore spots are physical, mental or emotional. Brokenness colours the way we experience ourselves, and distorts the way we treat each other. It can even creep into our expectations about healing.
When we’re unwell it’s unwise to approach a healing service expecting a particular outcome. Sudden cures, while part of the biblical witness, wouldn’t be miraculous if they happened every day. God isn’t a vending machine, and his ideas about what’s best for us may not coincide with our own. Healing is neither a cheap grace, nor a magic trick.
Rather, Bishop Morris Maddocks, founder of the Acorn Trust, describes healing as `Jesus meeting us at our (real) point of need’.
Healing can become a journey towards freedom; not necessarily an end to illness, but a move away from the darkness of difficult or painful experiences, away from shame, guilt, fear, and anything else that shackles and diminishes us.
If you’re able, do give the first Tuesday of the month a try. If nothing else, in a life that’s so strongly driven by the clock, it’s wonderful occasionally just to stop, breathe and `be’.
Contact
Church Street
Holbeach
Spalding
Lincolnshire
PE12 7LL