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She says she's ready ...so how do I help?
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 743310" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>I am coming to have very strange ideas. One of them is that if we think very, very positively, very, very lovingly, that that holding can be transformative. Maybe this is prayer. </p><p></p><p>The change came just recently. The Rabbi in the prayer class sent an email to the very small class, maybe 11 people, and she volunteered to pray for us, if we wanted, or a family member, if we chose. This was a couple weeks ago, and I was despondent about my son. I wrote back to say, yes, I would very much appreciate her prayer for my son, but most of all for me. And I opened my heart to her; I told her all of the ugly and small things about me, my weakness and my pain. I did not filter. I let her see me so that she could hold who I was and could discern the parts of me that could open. I trusted her to do that.</p><p></p><p>And not even four days later I called my son's friend, the concrete contractor, and within a day or so my son had called. He was guarded but I was not. I had opened to him. And now he is WORKING. I mean, maybe it was one day of work. But something has shifted. And as I type this I am believing it was prayer. </p><p></p><p>I don't believe anymore that lives are determined. Not even one bit. Your daughter touches my heart.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 743310, member: 18958"] I am coming to have very strange ideas. One of them is that if we think very, very positively, very, very lovingly, that that holding can be transformative. Maybe this is prayer. The change came just recently. The Rabbi in the prayer class sent an email to the very small class, maybe 11 people, and she volunteered to pray for us, if we wanted, or a family member, if we chose. This was a couple weeks ago, and I was despondent about my son. I wrote back to say, yes, I would very much appreciate her prayer for my son, but most of all for me. And I opened my heart to her; I told her all of the ugly and small things about me, my weakness and my pain. I did not filter. I let her see me so that she could hold who I was and could discern the parts of me that could open. I trusted her to do that. And not even four days later I called my son's friend, the concrete contractor, and within a day or so my son had called. He was guarded but I was not. I had opened to him. And now he is WORKING. I mean, maybe it was one day of work. But something has shifted. And as I type this I am believing it was prayer. I don't believe anymore that lives are determined. Not even one bit. Your daughter touches my heart. [/QUOTE]
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