Knowing and Responding to God's Love

This week's sermon focuses on Jesus healing a woman who had been bent over and unable to stand up straight for 18 years. He does the healing on the Sabbath, which was considered work. The religious official wastes no time in telling Jesus, the woman, and the crowd, that it is wrong to heal on the Sabbath since God commanded that the Sabbath be a special day of rest devoted to God--just check the Ten Commandments. The official, who was a man of God, didn't know the love of God well enough to know that God's love cannot be contained on the Sabbath, and that when Jesus looked at that woman, he really saw her and loved her. There could be no delay in healing her. It seems simple to us, but at the time, it was not as clear. What helps us know God/God's love now in a way that allows us to honor our traditions but also be open to new ways of doing things so as to share the love of God that we have known?