By AARON CHARLES
For Word News
MIAMI (WordNews.org) March 19, 2012 — Ruth Vander Zee, author of the book Woman Meets Jesus: How Jesus Encourages, Empowers, and Equips Women on Their Personal Journey of Faiths, has a great story to tell.
Hers is a story of grace, redemption, and healing. In her book, Vander Zee attempts to take that background and combine it with the experiences of the women that Jesus came in contact with. She focuses on the spiritual healing that Jesus brings – something that often gets overlooked.
“There are things that we put in the church bulletin and there are things that we don’t. Usually we focus on physical requests and forget about spiritual healing,” Vander Zee told WordNews.org.
Vander Zee had seen spiritual healing in her own life.
One day when she walked outside of her home in Miami, Florida, she saw something out of the ordinary. A pile of garbage was strewn around her pond. The garbage had been exposed to everyone. She was immediately repulsed. She wondered how she would clean it all up. But then, the very next day, the garbage was gone. Someone else had cleaned it up.
This made her realize something on a spiritual level. The garbage dump became a metaphor for the parts of her life that Christ was beginning to expose. But, Christ did not leave the cleanup for her to do on her own. He came in and did the healing.
“I didn’t expect [Jesus] would break in with a garbage can, but He did,” said Vander Zee.
Other experiences were very formational in the process of writing this book as well.
Her daughter sustained some very serious injuries when she fell off a ladder. Her ankle was badly injured, and on top of that, dirt had caused infection in her wounds. Two years of surgeries could not solve all the problems. It wasn’t until a small hidden infection was found that Vander Zee’s daughter was healed.
Once again, Ruth took a spiritual lesson from this experience. She began to notice “hidden infections” in her own life, and this brought radical change.
“[Christ] healed parts of me I didn’t even know needed healing,” said Vander Zee.
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