More from the lectionary essay

[Gabrielle Dean]

"So when Jesus heals their leprosy he doesn’t merely cure their bodies; he restores their identities. He enables their safe return to all that makes us fully human — family, community, companionship, and intimacy. In healing their withered skin and numbed limbs, he releases them to feel again — to embrace and be embraced, to worship in community, to reclaim all the social and spiritual ties their disease steals from them. In other words, Jesus enters a no-man’s-land — a land of no belonging — and hands out ten unblemished passports. He invites ten exiles home.”

Debie Thomas, writing from personal experience of being a "foreigner”, a child of immigrants to the USA.

https://www.journeywithjesus.net/essays/2395-a-foreigner-s-praise

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