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License to Touch
By Eva Marie Everson
If you were to look inside my
trusty DayMinder (formerly known as a calendar!)…if you were to shuffle
through the camp info papers (for my granddaughter) and the speaker info
pages from various churches (for me)…you would find written on one tiny
line next to 5:00 each and every month the name: Cassie.
Cassie is my massage therapist. And a very good one at that. I
see her once a month, as my father used to say: whether I need to or
not. And I always need to! Sitting at this desk hour after
hour, fibromyalgia, and fifty years of life have taken their toll. Even
a short half-hour spent face down on Cassie’s massage table is easily
the fix this body needs. Cassie has “a license to touch,” and in that
touch, she has a gift of healing.
The first time I heard that phrase, “license to touch,” I was having
lunch with Cassie, interviewing her for my book, Oasis, A Spa for Body &
Soul. I said to her, “Ohhh…I love that….”
For me it was more than just the image of a person touching another in
the healing act of massage. It was the image of Jesus, touching and
healing those who came near to Him, being touched by the woman with the
issue of blood, laying His hand upon the little children and referring
to the Kingdom of Heaven as He did so.
Touch—the right kind of touch—is a beautiful thing. Though I cannot be
touched physically by Jesus today, I can be touched spiritually. Each
morning I ask Him to “touch me in a special way today.” That prayer,
spoken earnestly, never fails to produce…because Jesus never fails to
produce.
And the real beauty of it, I don’t need a calendar to schedule an
appointment for a touch from the Master’s Hands.
Eva Marie Everson is the
award-winning speaker and author of the recently released Oasis: A
Spa for Body and Soul. For more information go to:
www.EvaMarieEverson.com
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