1. Luke 13:10-17 “Bound to be Loosed”
The prophetic vision of Isaiah 61 articulates and animates the narrative & trajectory of Jesus’ life
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me,     because he has anointed me     to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners     and recovery of sight for the blind, to set the oppressed free,      to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor…” ~Luke 4:18-19
“Behold a woman…” “saw her” 18 Years
(Judges 3:12-14)
“Its not what you look at that matters, its what you see.”
~H.D. Thoreau

2. (a new way of seeing) ~ John Wesley
“What is especially clear in scripture is both the chief end or purpose of Christianity and the means to achieving that end. The end is, in one word, salvation; the means to attaining it is faith.”
(a new way of seeing) ~ John Wesley
(Luke 19 Zacchaeus - “Son of Abraham”)

3. “You have not given me into the hands of the enemy
The principal Hebrew term translated salvation = “yasha” and its cognates are used 353 times in the OT… Its basic meaning is “bring into a spacious environment”
“You have not given me into the hands of the enemy
but have set my feet in a spacious place.”
Psalm 31:8

4. “This is the bent over woman
“This is the bent over woman.  She is everyone who has ever struggled to rise above the pain of oppression and low self-worth and judgment from others… she is everyone who has struggled with illness, addictions, loss of value, loss of spouse, or self-esteem or  innocence… she is anyone who has lived in a situation that is intolerable… anyone who has been told "You Can't" and believed it.... anyone who has lost hope…”
~ Rev. Linda Pepe
“A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.”
~ Martin Buber

5. Jesus did not say, “Woman, you have been healed.”
δέω and λύω
“I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”
Matthew 16:19
Jesus did not say, “Woman, you have been healed.”
He said, “Woman, you have been loosed…untied”
"satan" = “accuser.” 
who is the accuser(s) in this story? who in your own story?

6. stooped so only the beetles could see her face
stuck in fractured vertebrae downward posture
bone on bone and the cracking of movement
crooked humility like forced back labor
and then the raising the release the renewal
freedom to stand up and breathe deep in the lungs
strengthened in spine and spirit and looking everyone eye to eye
another one lifted up to dignity and now:
a free, 
gracious, 
thankful 
Bow
~ Michael Coffey