Heal me, change me. Swirl the healing waters around me. Send your angels to help me. Waiting for you, waiting for your mercy and lovingkindness. Waiting for your healing Oh God I look to you.
John 5:1-4
The Healing at the Pool
Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals.2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed.
Prayer by Mary Jane Heringa