Dear God, Guide their hands, enlighten their minds, and enable the people who have the wisdom and skill to heal and help my suffering loved one. I understand there are laws of nature that must run their course. You are the source of creation, and if it is Your will, my loved one will get better. Praise to You, God, the holy Healer.
Reflection by Rabbi Gerald Wolpe:
“It’s not that I’m asking God to intervene directly and cause my [loved one’s] body to change physiologically. I pray to ask the people to whom God has given wisdom. I believe there are laws of nature and that those laws run their course. Whatever happens in nature has already been set in motion, and God does that. God doesn’t come and change the laws of nature after the fact. If God is the source of all creation, then the things in life that aren’t so great have their source in God, too.”