A
certain young lady got married and could not take in after twelve years. The
husband and his relatives were worried and threatened her with a divorce.
Touched by the woman’s predicaments, her friends decided to take her to a
gynecologist who was also an expert in psychology. She examined her thoroughly
and found nothing physically wrong with her system. She delved into the interior aspect of her life and after some psychological tests
discovered that the young lady have had twelve abortions before marriage. After
the counseling and recommendations she received, in less than a year, she took
in and was delivered of a baby safely.
The similarity
between this story and that of the paralytic in the gospel reading is that the
two patients were taken to be healed not by themselves because of their
incapability to help themselves but by their friends. For us, this means that
our journey