Source of All Healing

Kathy Gray attended the Tri-Diocesan Fall Camp at Shrine Mont in October. One of the presenters was author and teacher Angier Brock who wrote and used this prayer as part of her presentation on Writing and Spirituality. Kathy shares this with you to pray daily as we approach Advent.

At your word, the heat of a fever fled.
Now bid me rise and breathe an easy breath.
You shielded a sinner caught in flame.
I too have sinned.  Come, heal my shame.
 
Source of all healing, come by this place,
Bring your compassion and grace.
Source of all healing, before you I bow,
Come, Holy Jesus, abide with me now.
 
You ordered unclean spirits to flee.
From all that would bind me, I pray, set me free.
You opened deaf ears.  To the blind, you gave sight.
You made the lame stand and the bent stand upright.
 
Source of all healing, come by this place,
Bring your compassion and grace.
Source of all healing, before you I bow,
Come, Holy Jesus, abide with me now.
 
When lepers cried out, you made each one whole.
Hear now my cry – cleanse my body and soul.
At your command, rough seas grew calm.
So be to my anxious heart a balm.
 
Source of all healing, come by this place,
Bring your compassion and grace.
Source of all healing, before you I bow,
Come, Holy Jesus, abide with me now.

(copyright Angier Brock)