The reason why this story always puzzles me is because everyone thinks the obvious problem is his paralysis, but Jesus forgives his sins first.
It has always startled me to the point of realization that our spiritual disconnection from God is the biggest plague of our souls.
“On boundaries” not against them, but we will soon come to learn how not applying a keen sense of wisdom when deploying these foreign baked ideas can shape entire generations into individualism, loneliness and eventual abandonment.
The results are still forming.
Watched this guy, his mom was calling him on the phone and he was grumbling “I’ve told her that if she can’t get through to me on a first call, she should text me”.
And I was just there nodding in my mind like: don’t worry, one day she won’t be here to even call you again.