Love Heals

Love Heals

Today’s message was written by Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel, founder of Dial Hope.

Scientific research is now confirming what many of us have suspected all along – that love plays a big part in the healing of a hurting body. The poet Elizabeth Barrett was an invalid for many years, unable to lift her head from her pillow. But one day she was visited by a man named Robert Browning. It was love at first sight, and in just one visit, he brought her so much joy and happiness that she lifted her head. On the second visit, she sat up. On the third visit, they eloped! Love has the power to heal both physically and emotionally. No wonder people were healed by coming into physical contact with Jesus. He was love incarnate, and that’s what he is calling us to be today – love made flesh, love personified, love lived out. Think of it – love heals! 

Let us pray: God of love and hope, when we are weak, you are like a rock to us. When we are befitted or endangered by life’s events, you are our fortress. Open our eyes to the beauty of the world you have created; open our ears to your still small voice that seeks to influence us; open our hearts to your amazing grace and forgiving love. Now melt us, mold us, fill us, use us, so that our lives will more closely reflect the life of Jesus, the Christ, whose we are and whom we seek to serve. In his name. Amen.

Daily Message Author: Roger Kunkel

(November 24, 1934 – June 29, 2011) Rev. Dr. Roger Kunkel was a native of Parsons, Kansas, graduated from Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, where he received an award for “Outstanding Student and Citizen”. After graduating from Princeton Theological Seminary, he earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois, and went on to serve as Senior Pastor in Duluth, Minnesota, and Riverside, Illinois. He served as Chaplain of Heritage Park Rehab Center in Bradenton, Florida, after retiring from his pastorate at First Presbyterian Church of Sarasota in 1998. Full Bio

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