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Lately, I've been thinking about the things God teaches us in seasons we would not necessarily have chosen for ourselves. The lessons that take time to understand. The truths that settle into our hearts slowly, sometimes after we have prayed about the same thing more times than we can count.

Scripture introduces her in a single sentence, yet that sentence carries weight of twelve years of suffering. The bible tells us she had been bleeding for twelve years. This was not simply a medical problem. In the Jewish law of that time, continual bleeding placed a person in a state of ceremonial uncleanness according to the book of Leviticus. That meant she was not only physically weak but also socially and spiritually isolated.