Hard is not Hopeless

"The situation in Iraq is dire. The stakes are high. There are no easy choices. The way ahead will be very hard. But hard is not hopeless."

~ Lt. Gen David Petraeus

Falling from Grace

"When we remain in the grace of God, we have no fear. Our anger, doubts, and fears arise when we fall from grace and thrash around under our own limitations."

~ Truthful Grace

Loving Someone

with regard to a family dispute:

"You can never go wrong by loving someone."

~ Truthful Grace

Doing to yourself

If somebody else else did to you the things you do to yourself, you'd call the police.

~ quoted by a friend from a Stephen Sondheim play seen recently in New York

Intergenerational Healing Prayers

The following are short versions of the prayers suggested by Fr. Robert de Grandis for healing back into the generations. His book, Intergenerational Healing can be found in any good Christian bookshop and offers excellent insights into the area of the faults, failings and actions of our ancestors having effects on the present and even onto future generations. His healing ministry in the Lord and the Holy Spirit has been hugely successful and he gained much from the work of Dr. Kenneth McAll (Healing the Family Tree) and He covers many different areas of unlove and negativity.

"In the Name of Jesus, I take authority and I bind all powers and forces in the air, in the ground, in the water, in the underground, in nature and in fire.
You are the Lord over the entire universe and I give you the Glory for Your creation.
In Your name, Lord, I bind all demonic forces that have come against me and my family and I seal all of us in the protection of Your Precious Blood that was shed for us on the Cross."

"Mary our Mother, we seek your protection and intercession with the Sacred Heart of Jesus for me and my family, and surround us with your mantle of love to discourage the enemy."

"Saint Michael the Archangel and our Guardian Angels
come defend me and my family in battle against all the evil ones that roam the earth.
Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in our hour of need.
Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snare of the devil.
May God restrain him, we humbly pray.
And to thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Hosts,
cast satan down to hell and with him all the wicked spirits
who wander through the world for the ruin of souls."

"In the Name of Jesus, I bind and command all the powers and forces of evil to depart right now away from us, our homes and our lands.
And we thank You Lord Jesus for You are a faithful and compassionate God. Amen."

"Heavenly Father, I ask You now to go back though all in my bloodline,
my husband's/wife's bloodline,
and the bloodlines connected to all of my family and relatives
and forgive the wrongs, heal the illnesses, bind the evil deeds.
I ask You Lord to break the chains, associations and links any of these may have to us here in the present.
On their behalf Lord, I seek Your forgiveness, your healing and a pouring out of your Divine Love so that Your Love may now pour forth through the years and touch us in the here and now.
So that Your Divine and Healing Love will take the place of all the past hurts, angers, hates, unlove of You, destructive emotions or actions and evil ties of our ancestors.
So that Your Precious Blood and Divine Love and Healing will heal us of the residue we carry from our ancestors.
In true faith I thank You Lord because You have said
'Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened to you'. Today Lord I knock, I seek, I ask.
All praise and thanks to You my loving Father."

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Healing Prayer at Bedtime

Lord Jesus,through the power of the Holy Spirit,
go back into my memory as I sleep.
Every hurt that has ever been done to me,
heal that hurt.
Every hurt that I have ever caused another person,
heal that hurt.
All the relationships that have been damaged in my whole life
that I am not aware of,
heal those relationships.
But, Lord,if there is anything that I need to do,
if I need to go to a person
because he or she is still suffering from my hand,
bring to my awareness that person.
I choose to forgive,
and I ask to be forgiven.
Remove whatever bitterness may be in my heart, Lord,
and fill the empty spaces with your love.
Amen.