Quick Summary:

In one episode after another Mark shows us how Jesus touches people where they are most vulnerable, and makes their broken lives whole again. In these early chapters of his gospel, Mark doesn’t replay for us the conversations Jesus had or the sermons he preached, instead Mark shows how Jesus was a man of action: he preached by doing. We see it again in today’s gospel story.

Following on the heels of the exorcism experience in the Capernaum synagogue, a public healing in a public place; Jesus enters personal territory as he goes to Simon and Andrew’s house with James and John, where, we learn, Simon mother-in-law is in bed with a fever.

In the space of two brief verses Mark tells of her healing. But today we allow room for our imaginations to take us deeper into the story.

What kind of person was this woman, Simon Peter’s mother by marriage?