For Someone Else
For Someone Who Is Sick
For when you feel: friend in hospital, praying for healing, someone I love is ill
Dearly beloved, concerning all things I make it my prayer that thou mayest proceed prosperously and fare well, as thy soul doth prosperously.
The MinuteHomily
The phone update comes, and there is nothing you can do with it. Someone you love is sick, and helplessness moves in where the doctors will not let you follow. But prayer has no visiting hours. Four friends once tore open a roof to lower a paralyzed man to Jesus, and the Gospel notes that Jesus saw their faith, the faith of the carriers. Be a roof-opener. Pray boldly for healing, since God still heals, through medicine and beyond it, and pray wide the way John did, for the body and the soul together. Then let your prayers grow hands: the ride, the meal, the text that expects no reply. You cannot carry their illness. You can carry them, every day, to the feet of the Healer.
By the MinuteHomily editors
A prayer for this moment
Lord Jesus, Healer, I lift up the one I love. Restore their body, guard their spirit, guide every caregiver, and count my faith for them today. Amen.
“Pray, hope, and don't worry.”
St. Padre Pio
Hymns for this moment
“O Lord, Hear My Prayer” · Taizé
“I Am the Bread of Life” · Suzanne Toolan
One small step
Set a daily phone reminder with their name; pray every time it fires until they're well.
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