As we go along in life, we tend to clutter our lives with frills and other things to decorate our lives.
We may even think that these things are the necessities of life, until we are abruptly stopped in our tracks.
An illness or disease is all it take to make us feel the pain or confined to the bed.
And that will make us start thinking about what is necessary and essential in life.
The official's daughter and the woman with haemorrhage in the gospel account are two instances where life is stopped or paused.
It was then that the necessary and the essential of life is realised.
More than just a cure or recovery of health, it is the realisation of who Jesus is and how much we need Him.
When life is paused or stopped, let us realise this: The One who made us will also know how to mend us.
May we always keep this in mind.