Healing Prayer

Give Me a Hand!

Give Me a Hand! I'm dressed for Halloween: The fingers of my left hand poke pitifully out of their wrappings, my poor thumb a shade I can only describe as "prune." The bandage is so thick, my fingers dangle helplessly over the computer keys, unable to connect, so I tap away one-handed, something I haven't done since pre-high school typing class. From the elbow down, I look like something...

I Am More

I Am More My own body has turned against me.Cancer.It is more than a word.It is a weight pressing me down.Help me breathe.Help me hear what the doctors are saying.Help me be more than this one word,this diagnosis and this set of symptoms.I am so much moreas I draw on Your strength,created in Your image.  

Perfect Victim

Perfect Victim He saw from the first that I was perfect.I did not scream.I hid his ugly secret under layers of paindeep in my soul. I told no one.No one, that is, but You.Please help me learn how to trust again.Help me to stop seeing his faceon those that hold no blame.Tell me, over and over,that...

Standing Tall

Standing Tall The moment is still.  The news is frightful. I watch her rise and exit the room.Behind her a prediction of failure, of sickness, a future far from easy.I want to glance awayand forget her face. But no—steel my stare. Help me look even closerand remember only this:

Intervention

Intervention The pain never stops.It has become as much a part of meas my skin, my eyes, my pulse. Please, please intervene.Reunite my body with your blessings ...with joy and life and strength. Remind me what it was to be safe in my body. And when I cannot hear Your reminders,

Restoration

Restoration My body seems to have turned on me.My head is fluid.My stomach has flipped upside downand I've got a wretched caseof the shivering sweats.I am losing time to my sickness.My body is an enemy.Stay here with me, won't You? Lay a cool hand on my foreheadand soothe my...

Rock Me Slowly

Rock Me Slowly Today, he closed the door behind him,All he wanted, in his suitcase.Upstairs, an empty bed once shared.A table holds the gifts I gave him,more closet space, I cannot fill.Still holding up, and holding on.I turned to see— he left our photos.The dam burst, tears f...

One of Us

One of Us It's been years since we prayed together, years we could have grown apart but somehow didn't. I see Your hand in this. The same hand that formed us, loud and raucous,

Waiting Room

Waiting Room I wait to hear Your voice.What should I do? How can I help?Where do I turn?I wait to lend a hand to Your children,young and old, near and far,those I know and those who are known only to You.As I wait, prepare meto do Your workwith Your name on my...

Forget-Me-Not

Forget-Me-Not

Remission

Remission The treatments are done.The doctors tell methat the cancer is in remission.Remission.Not gone.Not forgotten.Help me let go of the fearthat is waiting to pounce.Instead, help me feelthe sun on my face.

Your Healing Hands, Your Healing Heart

Your Healing Hands,Your Healing Heart I ask of You this...

Temple Ruins

Temple Ruins Into everyone's life must comethat one fateful day.My day was that morning,I woke up listing leftlike a ship without a rudder.My head found the wall,I didn't realize I was leaning.Even its name is a mystery: multiple sclerosis.This is where my faith found traction.You are there at every turneven when I can't...

Refreshed

Refreshed Breathe when all else fails,Breathe to reconnect.In the freshness of the air,You are there taking meto my final place, for today,we are ending on a noteof kindness and grace.

I Am Certain

I Am Certain Sitting in the doctor's office, twisting tissue,hoping now the news is good.Searching for my source of comfortthat only You can provide.Calling out, I sense Your closeness. You, who never leave my side,please let me feel brave, optimistic,and reassured that You have heard my prayer.The...

Shout

Shout I shout out for triumph,I shout out for love,I shout out for happiness,My sickness has been healed! You hear my victory,You hear my devotion,You hear my joy,My prayers are answered!  

Friend Indeed

Friend Indeed I’m supposed to be good with words, but my friend is so sick.She needs me to cheer her up, to crack wise in my funny accent.I don’t know what tomorrow will bring.What I do know is Who will bring tomorrow.All I can tell her is that there is always hope.Speak through me as I comfort and encourage her,a...

Want to be Healed?

Want to be Healed? Three guys were fishing in a lake one day, when an angel appeared in the boat. When the three astonished men had settled down enough to speak, the first guy asked the angel humbly, "I've suffered from back pain ever since I took shrapnel in the Vietnam War ... Could you help me?" "Of course," the angel said, and when he touched the man's back, the man felt relief for the first time in years.

Wholeness

Wholeness Thank You for this day of exhaling,of unprecedented blessingand finally relief.This is the day the wound started healing.The moment the rift began to mend.The storm has passed and we still have each other.

Words Do Hurt

Words Do Hurt If only I could take them back!But the words flew out of my thoughtless mouthlike a bullet out of a gun.I watched it pierce,the pain welling up in my friend's eyes.I felt it ricochet through me, too,gutting me to the heart.There seems no end to the waysthat words can harm.I, alone, cannot fix this.

The Diagnosis

The Diagnosis She called today.There was something in her voice I never heard before.She had been to the doctor."A biopsy is needed, just to be sure," they said.I offered to drive; she can't be alone.I'll hold her hand and chatter away.A mind occupied cannot think.When her name is called, I'll hug her.She...

Sick and Tired

Sick and Tired The aches still ache.The pain hasn't gone away.I'm sick of myself.Tired of being focused day and night on how I hurt.On what I cannot do,and what the next test might show or cost.Help me look beyond myself.Teach me to realizethat no one woman can live with pain, alone.Share Your: Compassion,Love,Patience.