Many Lutheran pastors have an Occasional Services book in their possession.

That's a small, green prayer book a pastor uses at special services such as the blessing of a home or the installation of a church council. It also has a service of healing, designed for use at the time of physical illness. The point here: the service of healing was not in the big, green hymnal the church used for years, but in the "occasional services" resource. Its use was limited.

The new, cranberry colored worship books that recently appeared in Trinity's pews, replacing the green ones, have moved the healing service to the center of what a congregation does. The new worship book thinks that the word "healing" should apply to all the dimensions of our lives - physical, spiritual, social, and so on.

How do we celebrate and witness to the healing in our lives?