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Mark 5:28-32 CEB
She was thinking, If I can just touch his clothes, I'll be healed.
Her bleeding stopped immediately, 
and she sensed in her body that her illness had been healed.
At that very moment, Jesus recognized that power had gone out from him. 
He turned around in the crowd and said, 
"Who touched my clothes?"
His disciples said to him, "Don't you see the crowd pressing against you? Yet you ask, 'Who touched me?'"
But Jesus looked around carefully to see who had done it.
Mark 5:28-32 CEB
Our tired, broke, almost defeated person here took a step of faith, somehow prompted in a supernatural way to touch Jesus clothes.
At a supernatural level Jesus knew something had shifted, yet at a human level, he genuinely didn't seem to know who was part of that shift. 
And he wanted to know. 
He was interested.
Interested in the person who had impacted his spirit.
And he looked around carefully for her. 
This is Jesus, God and human, carefully looking for us, one by one.
And one day, we will know just what this woman in this story felt and experienced, and more. 
We will know that we are Beloved.
#gospelofMark #GoodNews 
#invitation 

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