Healing

Greetings... 
Today we focus on challenges relating to personal wellness. Sickness is a common (part of the) human experience. In sickness we face, among other things:

• physiological struggles
• relational tests, and
• opportunities for learning - especially about ourselves.

Thinking of friends who are sick at this time, I share well-wishes for health and wholeness alongside the composition below.
Good cheers.

AS YOU HEAL
 
You may be down, but you’re not out
From the battle that is at hand 
Sharp setbacks come on varied fronts 
The vast majority unplanned 
 
Midst joy or pain, know you’re valued
And needful healing comes by grace
In ways that heaven will define 
So, hold this truth in close embrace
 
It’s not always easy to tell
The purpose of things we go through
Yet, joining in trust for wholeness
Loved ones walk this valley with you
 
In weakness, may your faith stay firm 
To believe for the very best
Then in due time you’ll soar on high 
And by some means move past this test 
 
Yes, as you fight, to courage cleave 
And let no bitterness be sown
So, too, guard well against despair
Draw strength from happy hours you’ve known 
 
Friend, persistently look upward
To hope’s bright and glorious light
That guides us to the break of dawn
From pain-filled shadows of the night
 
Please take this prayer for wellness
As a fond kiss upon your brow
And by kind carers’ nurturance 
Will comfort come to you somehow
 
Mind put-at-ease, eyes washed with tears
In peace and patience may you find
Through miracles of earthly life
Relief for body, soul, and mind
 
Healing is heaven’s bread to you  
Know by this struggle you’re transformed  
Led unto newness by the One
In whose likeness you’re being formed
 
David McAdam
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