A day of healing
Peter Wilson, Stephen Feltham and David Mason write about a new initiative
Perhaps, as never before, what the world needs is healing. Everywhere we look we see sadness, sickness, tragedy, starvation, homelessness and conflict – add to that the damage to the environment and it would be impossible to deny that the world, indeed, needs healing.
Healing is a word often used and often misunderstood. It appears far more in our conversation than it perhaps does within our spiritual consciousness, and as a result can take on a narrow definition of what healing is really all about. For example, politicians and social leaders often refer to the need to ‘heal the economy’, but they might well be alarmed at being associated with a ministry of spiritual healing. Where secular concerns of healing and the spiritual concepts of healing converge is in the vision that people and situations should be balanced and made whole; we act in order to move towards wholeness and health (in all ways), and who would disagree with that?
We are all blessed with the gift of healing and, before you recoil with surprise, let’s make it clear we are talking about putting ‘love into action’ and creating a means of increasing the loving acts of kindness in our lives, which can impact on others, either directly or through ‘distant healing’, by asking to be used as channels for God’s healing.
With that in mind, the Friends Fellowship of Healing is planning a National Quaker Day of Healing on the 18 March. The Fellowship have a heartfelt wish that Friends up and down the country will join together on that day for a continuous Meeting for Worship for Healing. The idea is that Friends would attend between 11am to 4pm in their own Meeting houses or in a local Friend’s house.
The Fellowship encourages all Local Meetings to take part and believes the initiative would enhance a corporate spiritual energy that could be released to focus on the healing needs that are of concern to us all.
Meetings unfamiliar with this process would simply proceed as an extended Meeting for Worship – but with a clear focus on healing for whatever concerns come to mind. Friends would be free to come for as long as they are able and to go as circumstances allow, have comfort breaks and refreshments as and when needed. Each Meeting would need an anchor person, spiritually led, acting as a coordinator with designated ‘elders’ covering each hour of the Meeting helping to facilitate the worship.
We pray for people and situations in need of healing and surround them with Light and Love, using that of God within us to reach out to that of God in others, so that healing may happen for the highest good. We can, of course, do this on our own. The Friends Fellowship of Healing believes a tremendous release of spiritual energy could occur if we all met up in groups throughout the country, on the same day and at the same time, and focussed on healing in an act of worship
As Friends, we should not try to predict outcomes. It could be that for some folk healing may be no more than being given the strength to cope with what life throws at them.
What a memorable event it could be if we all tuned in to the presence of God with clear intentions during a special Meeting for Worship, had the courage to ‘let go and let God’, and brought healing to others through our endeavours.
Further information: www.quaker-healing.org.uk
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