An embrace can give a warm feeling inside. Some dictionary definitions of the word embrace are: "to clasp in the arms; to accept readily; to take up or adopt; to encircle, surround, enclose; to include; to take in mentally."
To embrace, to be embraced, mentally or physically, can fill us with a sense of satisfaction, of completeness. Joy wells up within us. We feel loved.
Does an embrace heal? In the usual human or personal sense in which we think of that term, no, an embrace of itself doesn't heal. But to encircle or surround oneself and others with an understanding of divine, infinite Love, God, opens the very windows of heaven, and we feel and experience the healing power of that Love. This is a truly divine embrace. The Apostle Paul must have surrounded the young man Eutychus with this spiritual understanding of Love when, after Eutychus had fallen from a third-floor window and was believed dead, Paul went to him and, the Bible says, "embracing him," restored him to life. See Acts 20:7-12
