Can Heal The Leper's Spots

"And a leper came to (Jesus), imploring him, and kneeling said to him 'If you will, you can make me clean.' Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, 'I will; be clean.' And immediately the leprosy left him and he was made clean." -Mark 1: 40-42

The other day I was reading an old issue of AdBusters, an amazing magazine, and I came across this quote, regarding prevailing attitudes in America. After an hour of frantic searching I can't find the exact quote, but it was something to this effect; That the leper is resigned to a life without feeling. He loses his toe because he cannot feel the pain of the cuts he gets, cannot feel the infection spreading. He loses limbs because he cannot feel them as they are beaten as he goes through his day. He feels nothing.
And tonight at church it hit me that Jesus cures leprosy several times. And that there may be some incredible symbolism there. Not simply the miracle that Christ heals the sick, because yes that is there and important, but I look at this, and we are all lepers.
We numb ourselves. We go through the day, letting ourselves get nicked. We cut our (metaphorical) feet on broken glass. We bang our arms and legs on tables and doors. We do not feel the infection we pick up in the street, cannot feel the bruise on out skin. And so it festers. We are all in danger of becoming leprous. Uncaring, unmotivated, completely oblivious to what is going on with our bodies, with our lives.
But Christ can cure us. He does. He is moved with pity. Anyone who knows me well should know I do not like the idea of being pitied, but when I look at something like this, that Christ, moved with pity, heals the leper, I thank God for His taking pity upon us. We need to implore him, to be on our knees, asking to be made clean, because our nerves are dead in leprosy. They need to be awoken. We need to feel, to know when we are nicked and cut, so we can be healed. This is, I suppose, an urgent plea not to grow calloused, so numb that it becomes a disease that you can no longer feel. Don't become a leper.