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Podcast: theeffect Podcasts
Episode: A Good Hug
Description: Dave Brisbin 6.29.25
A leper approaches Jesus, calls out: If you are willing, you can make me clean.
A statement. Not asking anything. No question whether Jesus is able to heal. Only if he’s willing. We’re obsessed with whether we’re worthy or capable of connection, acceptance. It’s our fear talking. But moved with compassion, Jesus reaches out and touches the man saying, saba ana, I am willing. In his language, it’s his deepest desire, pleasure, and purpose that he/we are healed, reconnected. His embrace before healing says it all. There is never a moment when full accep...