Please Pray

I sent out the following email to some friends and intercessors when I arrived back in Calgary this evening. I'd appreciate your prayers as well.

Hi All!

Some of you probably know that I left Calgary on Friday evening to spend a weekend in the mountains, a bit of time away to do some praying and thinking through some decisions that have recently sprung up in my life. The time away turned out to be very much a blessing – a significant time with wonderful friends. There is, however, much to walk through in terms of some deeply personal and spiritual issues as a result of the weekend. I spent a large chunk of this morning journaling, and came up with some specific questions to which I will need to seek answers, and steps to take in these next days. I returned to Calgary this evening feeling very challenged, but very peaceful.

However, I came home to a rather troubling situation. My mom was taken by ambulance from a church event this morning to the local hospital. Dad spent the day there with her, and brought her home when they released her late this afternoon. When I spoke to dad, mom was resting at home. Mom suffers from an inner ear problem that from time to time violently flares up, completely eliminating any equilibrium, and making her violently nauseous. When this happens she has to be hospitalized or she becomes dangerously dehydrated. My mom also suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) due to a horribly abusive childhood, and is on medications to control some symptoms related to sleeping and depression. There tends to be a tie in to these episodes with her inner ear, and months when she has made significant recovery progress with the PTSD.

There also tends to be strong spiritual tie ins, and I sense that again this time, though I’m not sure exactly why. The enemy often seems to attack my family in the area of physical illness. Particularly my mom and my youngest brother (some of you will know that Tim is a musician who has been unable to play for the last ten months, due to a very difficult to diagnose and treat wrist injury that came out of nowhere – he is likely going to have surgery within the next month to try and correct the problem – touchy surgery due to the nature of the nerves, muscles and tendons in the hand and wrist).

I would greatly appreciate your prayers, and if you’re hearing anything I’d love it if you share it with me. The last time mom had one of these attacks, she was flat on her back for a week, unable to move around or the nausea would come back in force. Pray for healing, and for wisdom and discernment for me as I walk out these new things in my own life in the face of enemy attack, and as I seek to care for and be with my mom (and brother) in coming days.

Thanks so much for each of your involvement in my life – you are all appreciated, and much loved!


Lisa