Pray, but Move Your Feet

To some extent we all make our peace with the unfulfilling marriage, the unrewarding job, the addiction, the routine, the familiar, because it is familiar. And when something or someone comes along and asks “Do you want things to be different?” “Do you want to be made well?” – Well, do we? Even if we could be guaranteed that what we had always longed for would happen, do we really want it? If Jesus came to you, at the point of your deepest longing, and asked, “do you want to be made well?” how would you answer? Would you want to rock the boat? To leave the job and the paycheck and try something new? To reach across the fence to the neighbour that you haven’t spoken to in years? To shake up the uneasy truce with your spouse? To break the pattern that keeps you estranged from the parent, sibling or child? To give up the excuse that has kept you from making more of your life? "Do you really want to be made well?"