The Healing Life

Healing is an important subject for us, not only because we want to be healthy, but because God has called us to be instruments of healing to others.

A health-care professional tells this lovely story of the healing ministry of a woman named Sue Reed, to whom she gave the title, “Our Lady of the Daily Mail”:

While working as a nurse, I took care of an eight-year-old crippled boy. One day he asked me to read him a letter from his “Aunt Sue.” The letter ran more like a diary:

Dear Frankie: Today you and I will take the bugs off the potato vines. Get a stick and a can, hold the can under the bug and knock it off with the stick. When the can is full, I’ll show you what to do.

The letter went on with another chore for Frankie, talked about a collie named Brother, gave all the details of a picnic, and ended with a…