A Word for Wednesday

"As the woman in the Bible who had suffered from hemorrhages during twelve long years, 

I too, longed to touch this Jesus, all the while trembling, 

not from apprehension that He would reject me, 

but that I would find Him as I feared He was. 

As Zacchaeus, I wanted to climb a tree so that I might see Him better, 

but at the same time, I feared He would turn His illuminated face towards me, 

and that He would call me by name. 

Such was the delicious fear that the Person of Jesus awakened in me." 

~Dr. Jamel Attar~