Opening up the computer tonight I am thinking about healing, being healed and waiting for healing. A dear friend had a seven hour surgery on her back today. She has been in pain for years and had other surgeries for her back. Today we are all hoping and praying that the pain will finally come to an end and she will walk straight and tall.
This journey to healing can be long and difficult. Maintaining hope can be so challenging. I remember that while Doug was in the rehabilitation hospital his physical therapist told him that hope is not a strategy. I found that statement rather upsetting because I think that hope has to be our first strategy. It is what leads us to persevere. It leads us to search for wholeness and healing. Hope sustains us until the healing comes. It keeps us moving forward.
Our dear friend has had the audacity to hope. She has continued to seek healing and to believe in healing. Tonight we pray for her as she begins her recovery. We pray that she will walk upright without pain.
Let us pray.
God who listens to our prayers and sustains our hope, be with our dear friend as she recovers from this long surgery. Surround her with effective doctors and nurses who have the capacity to bring healing and hope. Watch over her husband and family as they keep watch and care for her. And as she awakens may her pain subside, her spirit rest in your spirit and may she be filled with healing and hope. In your name we ask it. Amen
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