The Paralytic's Diary - The Day I Was Healed

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+-----The Paralytic's Diary - The Day I Was Healed 

As a boy in Capernaum, a night’s
phantasms were more tangible
than reality morbid. From Synagogue
I could walk, run, traipse, roam
with friends. Scale a cypress, then
extend my arm: an eagle’s perch;
Mount a horse, its eyes red with
forever-rage against paralysis’s
maladies, intransigence’s fire
exhaled from broad nostrils. To ride
and scorch, ride and scorch,
all of those in Rome/Israel with
derisive gaze. But now- me fully
lucid lowered improbably through
a roof on a cot. Noon. Jesus’ eyes 
familiar echoes of Eden I never
heard but know. “Walk with me”
he says.
“And you’ll never have to dream again.”
Take your cot, get up.

------Mark 2:1-12
Several days later Jesus came back to Capernaum. The report went out that he was home. Many people had gathered. There was no room left, even in front of the door. Jesus was speaking God’s word to them. Four men came to him carrying a paralyzed man. Since they could not bring him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof over the place where Jesus was. Then they lowered the cot on which the paralyzed man was lying. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, “Friend, your sins are forgiven.” Some experts in Moses’ Teachings were sitting there. They thought, “Why does he talk this way? He’s dishonoring God. Who besides God can forgive sins?” At once, Jesus knew inwardly what they were thinking. He asked them, “Why do you have these thoughts? Is it easier to say to this paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Get up, pick up your cot, and walk’? I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” Then he said to the paralyzed man, “I’m telling you to get up, pick up your cot, and go home!” The man got up, immediately picked up his cot, and walked away while everyone watched. Everyone was amazed and praised God, saying, “We have never seen anything like this.”