Wow! This REALLY Happened ~
Linda called to ask if I’d pray for a mutual acquaintance of ours. She was busy summoning up a prayer line for a girl named Johanna, who I knew only from social gatherings. I’d seen her at volleyball games and pot lucks, but we’d never spoken.
Lately she’d been feeling a recurring pain near her left ovary and didn’t want it to go any further. The last time she’d felt this way, she’d had surgery. So she’d asked Linda to start a prayer line of friends and associates who might be willing to pray for her healing.
I received the call just as I was walking out the door to my car. It was the weekend and our habit was to go way out in the country and camp on land we were purchasing with a group of friends. I loved these visits because we’d play music on the front porch of my friends’ trailer, eat good food and have sweat lodges late at night by the pond. This weekend was no exception and we had a terrific visit in Big Hill of Jackson County, KY.
On Sunday morning the land was soaked from an all night thunderstorm. Everywhere we looked, there were shooting springs of water bursting up from the earth. The grassy fields and mossy forest had a dampness that began to quickly dry the hot summer sun and a group of us couldn’t resist a walk. Water ran down from the hills into the creek bed, and our path was pock marked with mud puddles. It was breathtakingly beautiful on this day and our walk took us on a path by a gushing waterfall on the edge of the woods.
I climbed out on a flat rock in the center of the creek, facing the waterfall. The water split at this rock and ran on each side around me and it was mostly dry so I sat down on the gray slate in my blue jeans. The sound of water slamming on rocks and rushing toward me was sort of hypnotizing, so I decided to dive into the sound during a short meditation and let this moment last. It was also a perfect time to pray for Johanna, so during this meditation I started to visualize her standing directly under the running water of the waterfall as the water ran over, around and directly through her.
As the water fell, it became a rainbow of colors and sparkling white light that danced around and inside her body. I imaged that these healing colors carried healing to her sexual organs and as they left out her legs and feet the water carried out the negative residue of disease and pain. I sat facing the waterfall and imagined this for about five solid minutes, my spirit felt ecstatic as I did this and it wasn’t very long before I sensed that the water had carried away her dark energy and replaced that area of her body with healing white light. As I let the image go I asked that Christ, angels, healing guides and power spirits help carry this healing energy on it’s way to material manifestation in the life of Johanna. I send out joyful thanks for such beautiful moments I’d spent doing this on the rock and then climbed out of the creek bed and back toward my friends again.
That afternoon my boyfriend Jason and daughter Katie packed up our little dodge ford and drove off Big Hill and headed back into town. It was still daylight when we reached our apartment and as I turned in to the parking lot I saw a girl leaning on a car in the parking space next to mine. As we drove closer, I saw it was Johanna! She had never visited our home before and I didn’t know that she even knew the address, so I was surprised to see her, especially since earlier that day I’d spent a few minutes praying for her.
“Johanna!” I jumped out of the car and moved toward her. “What a coincidence you’re here!”
“I’m not coming inside or anything, I just wanted to come over here and talk with you about what happened today.” She said, still leaning against her car. I wanted to tell her how I’d prayed for her at the waterfall, but she continued speaking.
“I was lying on my couch and suddenly I felt something in my ovary area, it was like something just released and left my body. I just knew it was you, I sensed you as you prayed. I feel like it’s gone now and I wanted to come see you and thank you!”
I was stunned and excited that she actually felt my presence somehow when I prayed for her. I tried to tell her how I’d concentrated on her earlier, but she interrupted and just said, “I know, thank you!” and then she got in her car and drove away. The experience left me with a certain thankfulness of my own, that she had taken the time to come and tell me about her healing.