Life may not always be easy-going or smooth-sailing.
But at least most of us can say that life is stable enough.
But at some point in life, we will come to a bump and everything just falls apart.
It may be a financial problem, a crippling illness, a broken relationship, or something that just puts life to a stop.
When such things happen, we can either curse and swear and blame everyone for our troubles.
Or we might come to our senses and see what to do and how to get out of it.
In the gospel, the official and the woman with the hemorrhage somehow knew what to do.
They turned to Jesus for help and they got the answer to their prayers.
Let us learn from that official and that woman to turn to Jesus when we meet with life’s dead-ends or when life falls apart.
When we are down to nothing, Jesus will lift us up to something.