Three times in Luke’s gospel Jesus reinterprets the rules of sabbath keeping. While teaching in a synagogue as Jesus often did he noticed a women who was “bent over”, crippled in some way and had been so for 18 years. She’d been that way for so long people didn’t notice her anymore. Jesus saw her and said to her you are free from your infirmity. Immediately she straightened up and praised God. The synagogue leader was indignant. There’s 6 days to do work. If she wanted to be healed she should have come on those days. Jesus puts him in his place by pointing out that he waters his donkey on the Sabbath. Would it not then please God to heal this daughter of Abraham as well. We’ll explore the different ways we get stuck in being bent over and why it may feel it might be better to stay that way?