The man Jesus found at the pool of Bethesda “had been an invalid for thirty-eight years” (Jn 5:5). His condition was too severe to try his chance “when the water is stirred.” Someone else would be in the pool ahead of him. But he held on. For him it was better to waste away before a diminishing hope than to give up completely. As frustration grew, Jesus (knowing “that he had been in this condition for a long time”) came to him in person as God’s plan was ‘dry healing’: “Do you want to get well?” No stirring of the pool, but words of care and simple prescription: “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” At once the man became ‘valid’ to execute three actions. NA, in Christ.