There are
some weeks that are harder to get through than others. Young people dying of
overdoses, family friends having bad reports from medical tests, little children
being threatened in schools, suffering is all around us.
Sometimes
the only thing that we know for sure about our lives is that we are broken. We
who have been affected by addictions in our loved ones are broken people who
love broken people. We sometimes have to remember as pointed out in the AA Big
Book that our loved ones are sick. And sometimes, we are sick, also.
We pray that
those among us who are suffering will find the hospital of the soul, where
Jesus is the Great Physician and He will bring them through the pain of
recovery. We pray that their scars turn to stars in the kingdom of God. We pray
for family reconciliation in whatever form that can come, knowing that it may not
look like what we thought it would look like. My picture and dream has not
turned out like I thought that it might, but I am not the wise Creator, weaving
behind the scenes to make the very perfect ending. I still believe that He can
and will.
We need the
powerful armor of the Lord to protect us each day. We sometimes have to
physically put it on by the prayers of our hearts.
Lord, we
pray, heal our hearts, heal our souls, and make us whole. Glow through us,
expand Yourself in us, heal us, and heal me. Lord, there doesn’t seem to be joy
in living for many of your people right now. We need strong intervention and
help from the throne of God. We are at Your mercy with a broken, frayed rope
that can only be held together with Your cords of love. Heal us, help us, I
pray once again and when I can’t pray another word then I say, Jesus, lover of
my soul, bind our wounds and make us whole. We all stand in need of healing at times. This
is my time Lord.
Donna Collins Tinsley
Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of
three strands is not quickly broken. Ecclesiastes 4:12 (NIV)
Be a
three-strand cord to someone today by joining in prayer with us.
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