I apologise for the lack of November ‘special prayers'. My transfer from notebook to Word is always a very slow process at the best of times and I have the greatest skill in deleting when I think I am saving :0) It will happen but another few days yet.
In the meantime I am going to post up some other prayers, which are in the ‘prayer book’ I use daily. I suddenly remembered that I had managed to previously transfer these to Word during the process of putting some of these prayers onto the files at Mystic Rosary. Which is a group of the most welcoming people who all have an interest in prayer beads and writing prayers, understanding others practice and honouring each. The files held by that group are very extensive indeed and cover many traditions plus nuts and bolts type things like bead suppliers etc. I would recommend this group to you if you are at all interested in ‘prayer’, have an open mind and an accepting heart and wish to learn and share with other like-minded people.
The following ‘letter’ goes some way in explanation as to the gestation of this particular prayer. The J referred to is the groups very able and committed ‘librarian’ who also makes the most beautiful Anglican rosaries using a wire wrapping technique executed with consummate skill. She, like some of the other members, makes rosaries to sell and will create something to commission gladly. I encourage you to go and visit this group, you may be asked to fill in a small questionnaire but that is so the group might endeavour to keep the place a warm and welcoming space uncluttered by the delights of spammers not as fact-finding mission to form exclusive club. The files are very extensive and probably are the largest resource of its kind held in this medium. The photo files are also a delight to peruse as beautiful work abounds.
“Dear All,
This post comes after the discussion some time back about healing prayers. J and I have had ongoing communication about this and eventually I realised that a healing prayer for use with the pilgrim beads was something I should approach. However, it is not something that came to mind in the way other of my prayers have so I have tried to explain why I haven’t written one before below, followed by the prayer I have written.
I have been reticent to approach this "project" because I have never felt the need to pray for healing in the sense that many others appear to mean. I understand 'health' is a process, not a single unique event. Health is a becoming; it is a state of being. Every phase of life calls for the discovery of new potentialities within the self that is eternal.
The energy of the sun is built into all life on Earth as I see it and that life and living is a constant adaptation to the creative, healing energy of this force. It is means for the very structure of our growing awareness, our personalities to build and grow.
I do not think that spiritual health necessarily guarantees physical health, or that poor physical health is necessarily the consequence of spiritual disorder. I do think though that if the spirit is healthy, the fate of the body becomes of slight concern. That to seek health in spirit and in measure, find it is as sound a guarantee of positive health as I know.
The springs of positive health are deeply routed, buried in the life of the spirit. For me at least, it is clear there is no other source from which a sufficiency of steady enduring motive and power can be derived, hence, the creation of my daily prayers. They are as much about healing as they are of anything else. They help me connect to and add to the Whole and in so doing help me see the beauty of the world; to understand that life is light, love, peace and tenderness; to be reminded of the things I already know and have felt and to sometimes bring home to me for the first time the significance and beauty of these things.
I cannot draw a distinction between 'able' and 'dis-abled'; 'healthy' or 'sick'; it is in the ‘Being’ that positive health is gained no matter the state of the flesh. My daily prayers are means for me to bring balance to mind, body, heart and soul and it is the care of the harmony of these that gives positive health.
Maybe all that will begin to explain why I have not and do not feel impelled to pray definitely for the removal, cure etc., of a 'health problem'. The focus of my daily intercession, for those who ask for prayers for their health is rather that the sense of love of the Whole should completely engulf them. For me this means I accept and understand that 'health' comes from the true and deep healing of the spirit. This results in any obstacle to the flow of light, love, peace and tenderness to mind, body, heart and soul being removed. It is then that positive health is mine, my very being.
Living and dying in the strength of love, watching, seeing and feeling with love, thinking and learning with and for love, all striving done with and in love. This is positive health as I understand it.”
The prayer is said using the Pilgrim Beads I designed for my own use, which help me to focus and sometimes even remember:0) but I usually say this using the text in front of me. I discovered a long time ago that intercession on behalf of those who ask and those I discover is always intercession for myself too. That discovery still makes my heart smile and my mind spin with the conundrum but I accept this ‘mystery’ and continue on.
Healing Prayer.( The gender of this prayer may be changed I just write it in the female as my life is very woman centred)
O Universe of Wholeness, keeper, teacher, guide of all life and death, hear this small voice. Reaching towards and touching always I offer this moment in supplication. Hear my ineffectual cry. Midst your brilliance and wonder, smile upon my entreaty for the wholeness of mind, body, heart and soul of “Name” Bring her back to the start of and continue the propulsion to your love at this moment.
O light of mind, power of heart, healer of body, guide of soul may “Name” know truly life as love, peace and tenderness.
Restore and replenish the wisdom of her life as being.
Let her be like a bell echoing to the purity of your energy.
May all ties to pain be released, cover her with Earths healing.
Let her rest and rejoice knowing there is always joy.
Give harmony to her mind.
Purpose to her spirit.
Light to her soul.
May love be her remedy and response.
As in Spring regenerate her life through new light.
May her being be as one with renewal and growth at this time.
Give her the vigour of a life turned towards the light and completeness in its soft urging.
Let light come . Let light be.
In Her, For Her, With Her, Through Her (X3)
As in Summer make whole the meaning of love through rejuvenation of the garden that is her life.
May she find the sweetest fragrance and lightest touch of pure air filling her up and reinvigorating her.
Give nourishment to her being, make each moment beneficial to her mind, heart, body and soul.
Let peace come. Let peace be.
In Her, For Her, With Her, Through Her (X3)
As in Autumn let completion be of itself entire and unbroken as the Whole.
May her every breath, her every thought, her every movement bring her to place of well-being.
Subdue all thought of future or past let the moment be enough.
Give her realisation of a place of goodness and let her know peace.
Let peace come. Let peace be.
In Her, For Her, With Her, Through Her (X3)
As in Winter may all darkness be held safe by the promise of light.
May she realise she is made good and right through the cycle of time and being.
Let her know the effect of her part in the Whole as joy.
Give her understanding and allay all fear in the knowledge she is restored and rested in the Whole.
Let power come Let power be.
In Her, For Her, With her, Through Her. (X3)
O light bright centre of being. Builder and sustainer of each cell and atom of life find “Name” ready to accept your energy and fulfilling power.
Let the very structure of her growth be created through your brilliance.
May ”Name” discover new potential within each moment of her eternal self.
Give her sense of love as light shed through her very being.
May ”Name” know true and deep healing through illumination. Lighten her load, clarify her path, brighten this moment.
Let your enduring motive and power be her sufficiency.
Let light come, Let light be, Let light grow (X3)
O love, adored and adoration, beloved and means of understanding.
Give “Name” peace of mind, tenderness of heart, power of body and purpose of soul.
Let the deep attachment to life, which is the Whole, reverberate through every cell of her being.
May your energy concentrate the beauty of her heart and magnify her longing into the reality of delight in devotion.
Give "Name" realisation she is cherished and nurtured. May she find succour in this moment and trust for the future.
Let love come, Let love be, Let love grow (X3)
O peace, transformer to freedom and unity.
Restore this moment into gentleness for “Name” Reconcile and settle any fear or anxiety she may feel. Compose her mind, pacify her heart, cleanse her body, purify her soul.
Let “Name” be, nourished by the certainty of serene strength found in the Whole.
May she breath easily in the renewing stillness of the moment.
Give “Name” means to subdue all thought except of peace.
May she renew her understanding of the harmony of the Whole and know she is part of this unbroken state.
Let peace come, Let peace be, Let peace grow (X3)
O power, beneficial might and strength. Remedy and renewal of all life, effecter of change, restorer of truth hear my humble plea.
May “Name” find means to know that all remedy and repair is already hers.
Let her find revival and renewal in the strength of the Whole.
Give “Name” completeness as she is made entire in the Whole and make well all that may trouble her mind, heart, body and soul.
Let power come, Let power be, Let power grow. (X3)
In trust I embrace love and ask that ”Name” will continue to live in the strength of love.
May that which is other.
Unseen and unimagined.
Envelop and transform her all.
Restorative light may her gift be
Renewing love may her gift be
Repairing peace may her gift be
Reviving power may her gift be
Restore, renew, repair and revive “Name” this moment and all moments to come.
Make it so.
