Restoration

Wilderness beckons

From beyond the bend,

An ocean of earthy smells

Where core calls to core,

Deep to deep.

Lofty green falls yellow to the earth.

I tread leafy golden coins

Leading to greater treasure,

Persevering to Bethesda

To watch for angel wings

Troubling the water.

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Now there is in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate a pool, which is called Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a great multitude of sick people, blind, lame, paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up (troubled) the water; then whoever stepped in first, after the stirring of the water, was made well of whatever disease he had. 

Now a certain man was there who had an infirmity thirty-eight years.  When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” 

The sick man answered Him, “Sir, I have no man to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; but while I am coming, another steps down before me.”

Jesus said to him, “Rise, take up your bed and walk.”  And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked. 

-John 5:2-8