Healing

The Notation for This Week's Gospel (Proper 5, Luke 7: 11-17) reads:

Luke focuses on the powerful gentleness of Jesus. A young man is about to be buried. Jesus knows the devastation this man’s death will bring to the man’s widowed mother. A stunned crowd watches as Jesus gives the now obviously alive son back to his mother.

Yet the theme of the lesson is "Unexpected Healing." How does this connection of healing with bringing someone back to life affect how we think about healing? Or death? What are some of the things we need to think through when talking about healing, especially healing and prayer? Are Healing and Curing necessarily the same thing? What does it mean when we pray for someone to be healed and they die? How will you discuss these questions if they come up in your group on Sunday?