Service of Healing
About the "Service of Healing"
We offer this as a special time for you to talk quite directly with God about your own health or someone else's.
God can heal. God does heal. Sometimes we may want to tell God what needs healing, but not recognize all of our needs. For example, our bodies may become sick from working too hard. We pray for God to heal our bodies, but God wishes to heal our working too hard, because our bodies won't become healthy until our work habits become healthy.
Perhaps we are literally "sick from worry". We want God to heal our sickness, but God wants to heal our worry; God wants us to turn our entire life to God's care, with the result that we will not worry.
So in this service we invite you to talk with God about everything - family, work, how you feel about yourself. Do this whether you've come for healing for yourself or for someone else.
- Speak to God in Prayer.
- Then, be silent. Hear what God says to you.
- And watch for what God does in your life, and in the lives of those for whom you are concerned.
The ceremony, the symbols of oil, bread, and wine have for thousands of years, been symbols of God's grace - God's freely given support and nurture.
Accept them in that Spirit.
This service is available upon request.
