Epiphany: Show Yourself.

Don’t tell anyone,

   go and show yourself

   to the priest. (Mark 1:44)

Tomorrow, I “go and show” myself to my neurologist along with a Boston Scientific technician. They will look over what the surgeon implanted in my right brain and the stimulator implanted in my right chest.

During Epiphany, we celebrate “how Jesus went about doing good and healing all sorts of diseases” (Ac 10 & Mt 4). When Jesus healed those with the disease of leprosy; he would tell them not to make a big deal about it and humbly go to the temple, as described in the Law of Moses, and have the priest check them out. If the miracle worked, the priest would pronounce them cured and thus free to enter into public life. I feel something like that. I’m on my way to the temple of modern medicine to have my implanted stimulator programed and activated. Then we will know whether or not the science placed in my brain works. I pray it is so.