Wish!  Make a wish…Wish upon a star…I grant you three wishes…  Lines from some of my favorite fairy tales.  A wish seems magical–but there’s something way out of reach about the nature of a wish.  Webster defines wish: “to have a strong desire to have or do something—usually something unattainable.”

The disabled man in John 5 must have felt like all his wishes were “unattainable.” After all, he had been an invalid for thirty-eight long years. Life had passed him by. Continue reading