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

[Judy Fleener]

Praying.
Judy

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 12:04 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
> >
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan