Living in Christ

  I haven't written anything for a few weeks, not that I am neglecting writing, but because I had to take a break and engage myself in other commitments.  I was reading an article today that caught my attention.  The article focused on miraculous healings and why some people experienced them and others did not.  I thought about this and I wondered how do we trust these stories of healing when so many of us often have our prayers for healing go unanswered?  What exactly is going on when Jesus heals someone?  "Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades.  Here a great number of disabled people used to lie--the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.  One who was there had been a invalid for thirty-eight years.  When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, He asked him, "Do you want to get well?"  John 5:2-6 NIV.   Look at this st