need

Christ is Born! Are you one of those "needy people?" I sure hope so. If we had to describe the people who come to the Lord in today's reading with one word it would certainly have to be "needy." They had diseases. They were troubled by evil spirits. They needed healing. They needed Christ- and they knew it. And what is our Lord's response to them? To affirm them in their independence of course! - NOT! He affirms their need. Contrary to all the world teaches us the Lord tells them that they are blessed in their need because this need…