Healing

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Siloam Already on Her Knees

Job 22:28-30 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.  When men are cast down, then thou shalt say, THERE IS LIFTING UP; and he shall save the humble person.  He shall deliver the island of the innocent: and it is delivered BY THE PURENESS OF THINE HANDS.

On the surface,
an old inner man
is older still,
daily wearing
lines of grief
that cry out
for an unchangeable,
never to be recaptured
yesterday.

She knows
those lines.
She bears the scars
herself
beneath crows feet
painted by Mercy
like a cloak
that she now wears
through every season.

On the inside,
an ancient soul
possesses
a little boy’s
curly grin.
And that grin
grows younger still
by glimpses
of a promising
future.

But it lasts for mere seconds...
until fear sets in again.

Somewhere
below his heart
is a soul
that feels unworthy,
wavering steadily
between hope
and fear.

Were her hands able,
she’d wipe away
every line
not born
of a smile.

She had blood stains
on those hands.
But today,
they’re clean,
pure,
washed in sacred blood
that leaves them
spotless,
ageless.

Truly,
there is wonder-working
power
in the blood
of The Lamb.

She’d give him
a portion
of her sight,
take him down
to the pool of Siloam,
where she, herself
was bathed
and help him into waters
stirred by an angel
appointed to him alone.

If she could see into
tomorrow,
she’d make him promises
and carry them each through
to her end.

She’d hold his hands
with her clean ones
and help him walk
it all out.

She’d reach down
into her own
faith-overflowing
heart
and share the amazing strength
that comes from making it
across the Valley of Achor
and, by Grace,
safely
to the other side.

She can do none of these things.
Or maybe she can.
Nothing is impossible with God.

And just maybe
she has another name
among the many names
she’s divinely called:
“Siloam -
A Pool
Interpreted ‘Sent’.”

Maybe God
is just good.

God IS good.
He is The Lifter
of Our Heads.
There IS
lifting up!

Maybe she can’t.
Not if it isn’t God’s will.
But she can pray.

But she can pray.
© Joyce Pool

John 9:7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

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