One In Need Of Healing: Naaman's Story
Lectionary Tales For The Pulpit
We would all be well advised to be careful where and how we tell this story.
I stand before you today as one in need of healing, as Naaman was, as we all are.
We come here in our brokenness, suffering as we all do from the diseases of racism, sexism, nationalism, denominationalism and homophobia. Some of us come bearing the scars of dysfunctional families: sexual, physical and emotional abuse - both abusers and abused - some of us hurting from wounds we have received from brothers and sisters sitting in these same pews.