If ever there was a need to hurry, it would seem getting to the home of a dying girl to heal her, would definitely qualify as one of those times! Yet in Mark chapter 5, he describes how You stopped in the midst of the crowd to tenderly attend to a bleeding woman. Understandably, this confusing delay may have rattled the disciples since they replied to You, ” You see the people crowding against You and yet You can ask,’ Who touched Me?'”. I am guessing they were feeling pressed to rush to the little girl’s side, just like her father had begged of You. But You delayed. You stopped. You spent precious moments touching an outcast, ailing woman and gave her new life. This detour would only magnify the miracle You would now perform for the daughter of Jairus. Now You would not only heal her, You would raise her from the dead! What may have appeared as careless disregard of the cries from a desperate man, was actually setting the stage for Resurrection Power.

Please enable me to relax with confidence, trusting that every single delay and every single detour has precise purpose and power . If I choose to become tense and hurried , wanting to press on to the goal that I see and that makes sense to me, I will tragically miss Your Life flowing through me to touch the people I encounter in the stops.