I believe Christ can heal. I also believe His presence is not absent from the lives of those who remain ill.
Churches are often very good at celebrating healing. The harder question is how we stay, love and serve when healing has not come.
People in the waiting do not need less faith. They need a Church willing to remain beside them in an unresolved story.
That means making room for lament as well as testimony. It means asking what practical inclusion looks like. It means recognising that someone may genuinely trust God while also feeling exhausted, frightened or disappointed.
Prayer should never become pressure. Hope should never require dishonesty. A person should not have to pretend they are improving in order to protect everyone else’s theology.
Love looks like presence. It looks like flexibility, belief, patience and the willingness to keep inviting someone into community even when their capacity is unpredictable.
Healing may come. While we wait, love must remain.