A Prayer for Healing-for One Who Mourns

Tonight after liturgy, a woman asked for healing prayer.
Bishop Bridget Mary, Tom, Terry and myself would pray for her healing. I did not know that both Terry and Tom had been married before and each of their first spouses had died. This was the first time M and friends had come to Mary, Mother of Jesus community's liturgy.

M had recently lost her husband after only 15 days of knowing he was ill. "We thought he had sciatica" She is a Social Worker, "I thought I would be over it already" It has only been less than a month since his sudden death.

M said "I think God led me here tonight" She had been attending liturgy at her parish but needed a "caring community" she didn't find it in her own parish. We listened to M's story. We prayed for the Spirit of Comfort and Peace to come to her. Tom and Terry shared the story of each becoming a widow/widower. Their feelings and insights offered in comfort and M felt she had been listened to.

Their most important sharing was in response to M saying, "I want to know he is okay. I want to know he is all right." Tom and Terry each shared about how their first spouses are still with them-in their hearts.

We promised to keep M in our prayers till we met her again. I gave her my card so she could call anytime. I said, "I am ready for lunch and talk anytime you want."

We all gave thanks that M came to MMOJ and that our team of pray-ers was made up of two persons who had lost spouses. It was a synchronicity that reveals God's presence in the world.

Suffering and loss are inescapable as humans. What we can do is hold each other in love and the Compassion of God. God is the healing, we are vessels. From my point of view: we put a bug in God's ear, as the saying goes, "From your lips to God's ear"
It is a Sacred calling to be asked to pray for another, a sacred trust that must not be broken. Healing everyone from our God of Compassion.