[Magdalen] Prayers for a friend. (Is basically timely.)

[Jay Weigel]

Prayers for both of you, and for whatever direction your relationship is
supposed to take. God knows what that is; all you have to do is listen and
follow. ((Mike))

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 11:59 PM, M J [Mike] Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> My friend I mentioned recently, of life-long knowledge and relative
> relational ups and downs with me over the recent years, is in serious need
> of being tacked onto a few prayer lists, if you'd all be so kind.
>
> Her name is Becky (you can use Rebecca, if you prefer), and in blessed
> fall-out from her fiance's recent death she's sought professional help
> (partly at my urging, mostly at her employers'), and today was her first
> session.  She's sought therapy before, but this recent experience
> (first-hand; she found him dead in the bathtub; and her 16-yr-old adopted
> daughter witnessed and took part in the 911 experience) is, as I described
> it for her tonight, a "watershed moment" (me and that floodplain talk), and
> let's just say that in telling her abridged life story to the therapist as
> a first session starter, her therapist was amazed at what she's
> experienced, nearly from birth.  From what I heard from her tonight, I
> sense this therapist is the Real Deal, and will be able to help, but Ms
> Hard-shell Becky needs some "softening prayer", as it were, to allow what
> cannot be an overnight experience of healing to be nonetheless redeeming.
>
> There are those who remember my feelings for her, and our repeated
> negative experiences over the recent years, but I'm glad to say that I feel
> really good about just being a badly needed friend right now, and only
> wanting what is best for her and her kids.  And what's best for my own
> peace of mind.  Historically, worry about a "relationship" with her, put
> simply, hasn't worked.  Maybe what little bit of me is a priest, is
> functioning in at least that sort of capacity right now.  And it feels okay.
> _________________________________________
> "O perplexed discomposition, O riddling
> distemper, O miserable condition of man!"
> - The Rev Mr John Donne
> (in a not-so-chipper moment)
>