this almost made me cry

i almost always tear up when people at church lay hands on other people in prayer. for some reason that image really gets me.

From Celebration of Discipline by Richard J. Foster

Talking about him praying with a nurse in the mornings at church..."Then we would often discuss issues of theology , of faith, of life. And whatever we talked about Beth tested out at the hospital. If we discussed the Bible's teaching on 'the laying on of hands,' at work Beth would put her hands into the rubber gloves of an incubator and place them on a premature infant, praying silently and lovingly, and watch that little one increase in health and well-being. These were the kinds of things Beth would do, not just now and again, but repeatedly. Through Beth I learned the necessity of bringing spiritual realities into the press of raw humanity." (p.xvi)