Last year I underwent surgery for hip replacement. Technology is so advanced today that I was in and out of the procedure in less than two hours, out of the hospital in less than two days, and walking without a cane in less than two months. Having gone through years of deteriorating pain, to the point where I could not walk down the street without severe discomfort, I finally gave it up to the surgeons and was healed. This year, I played in my first ever Habitat for Humanity golf outing. Sadly, the surgery had not helped my golf game, but it did allow me to play. In Jesus' day, I would have been one of the lame; but there would have been no surgeons or bionic hip components that could have relieved my suffering. However, we read that he allowed the "lame to walk." I think I really know what that must have felt like to those individuals that have suffered and were healed. They would have known it was a miracle; and that Jesus was special and different. Remarkably, Jesus continues to heal the lame today; the lameness of sadness, the lameness of unemployment, the lameness of hunger and homelessness. He is doing this through us and, like my surgeon; he has given us the skills and tools to heal. We just need to do his work.