My Prayer
Dear God in Heaven
I know our lives are chosen from before our birth
and what is meant to be we must accept with grace
but please send down a miracle for friends on earth
who suffer deeply through the pain they have to face.
O grant that they may heal and live their lives pain-free.
Reach out to them with loving hands and touch their soul.
You are a merciful and loving God to me
who listens when we pray and will our hearts console.
My friends, dear Lord, now need your help so very much.
It breaks my heart to hear when one is ill or hurt.
I long to hold and soothe them with my healing touch
and know Your hands will guide me there and not desert.
So, with Your help I know that I can free from pain
my friends and share the joy to see them well again.
Joan Benecke October 30th 2008
Author notes
I have many friends here on AP who are suffering many illnesses.
You all know who you are, many favourites and friends I’ve made
along my journey through AP.
Our Queen Edna, Brian Harman, Maureen and Susan (Blushfulmoon) Gregg (Lordoftherings) Janice M Pickett just to name a few. And a very special greeting to my dear Sissy Pixie (Sea angel) and Dee (Catz) one of our officers in huguenauties group.Damon (Deke) is another friend who' not well at times.
To all of them and their family’s remember I love all of you.
Photo was taken by Hugh, we’d been on the boat and we all suffered from wind burn.
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Comments
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I do admire your writing skills on these sonnets. I've never been much good at them myself so I stick to what I do best (free verse) but I love these. This one really touches the heart and soul. I feel it to the core.
Gypsy
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Believe me Gypsy I'm still learning, Hugh keeps sending it back from editing until I get it right, I still have trouble with the meters, but I'll master it one day.
Love and hugs
Joan
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Joan, your words reveal your loving heart,
with compassion glowing from the page.
If words alone could heal and cure
yours would be a true miracle.
May the miracles happen...
M-C
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An Excellent write!
Joan this is an excellently written piece that you have written for so many of your friends here on AP. I know that I am ill at times, but I never think of myself as being sickly. I am happy under whatever circumstances I am in. I think that God takes care of us and gives us what health he sees that we are in need of at the time.
Great work my Australian friend.
Damon
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Dear Joan,
This is a beautiful prayer for healing, your faith and constancy in friendship are inspiring. I add my "amen" to this, may they all be comforted and healed.
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God's Healing Blessings to All
We've all become like a poetic neighborhood of family and friends, in an ethereal spiritual kind of way, up here in cyber space.
Hearts joined by binding words that hug the soul as words enter the window to our souls through our eyes.
A closeness that travels in an instant from one heart to another. That's how angelica Joan's words are... like angel dust sprinkled onto the page and into our hearts and lives in hopes of blessing us with our every need fulfilled.
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Thank you my sweet little sissy Pixie, it's amazing how we form close friendships throughout AP. There are so many who are ill on AP and in our daily lives I feel I need to help all of them, so angel dust has already been spread through the halls of AP.
Loe Joan
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This is a beautiful prayer for our friends who are experiencing pain and illness.
Even though the ones you've mentioned are not nearly so fortunate as myself, I could feel the strength of your prayer reaching out, helping me to cope with the results of my stroke. It's been a year now and I've accepted the fact that I'm about as good as I'm going to get, which leaves a lot to be desired. The ongoing pain is overshadowed by your words, your prayer.
Your poem is very special, Joan and I believe it's a comfort to anyone who reads it and is in need of encouragement, compassion, love
love and
Dee
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Thank you dear Dee, I remember when you had your stroke and how worried we all were. You are in my prayers for sure sweetheart and you name will be added here among the others. I had an Uncle who suffered a stroke during the war, it left him useless on one side and he lost the power of speech, but he was a determined man who got on with life and if he was trying to tell us something he wouldn't let us go until we understood.
I think you are marvellous the way you have recovered, even if it has left you with some problems, but getting to know you I know you have the will to overcome everything.
Love Joan
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Dear Bea,
Yes, there are many of our mustual friends who are seriously ill. Apart from my wife, Edna and close friends, Brian and Kerry, there are our mutual AP friends, Maureen, Susan (Blushfulmoon), Gregg (Lordoftherings), jane (Oneluckygirl), Julie (Trista), Petra (Bon fleur de lys), Michelle (Heart'nsoul), Jim (wintersong) and many others
who rarely appear nowadays on this site. They are all in my daily prayers as you are.
This is a beautiful sonnet-prayer in which you have managed the rather difficult hexameter smoothly and gracefully with thoughtful rhyming and touching sincerity.
You have, in short, created a worthy plea pn behalf of sick friends and I invite you to include it in the Wyleian collection as number CCXXXVI.
Applause, love and hugs, XXX Hugh.
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Thankyou dear Hugh for the honour of adding my poem to your Wyleian collection. I'm very thrilled.
A lot of people listed are friends of both of us and there are much more that can be added.
Love Bea
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