Kevin Rains writes today about VBCC’s experience yesterday with prayer for healing. I’m happy to say that we continue forward in that realm as well – so I’ll add a mini-story as well.
I’ve written here previously about Lori. She remains cancer-free, > 12 months after her diagnosis. Lou and Lori, charismatic Lutherans for most of their lives, are a core part of our community and wonderful people. Lori’s story is one of our great victories in the past few years’ efforts.
During yesterday’s gathering (moved from 5pm to 1pm so that we could go watch the big football game afterward), we started with a few songs of worship, and afterward before we even enter into our regular time to listen for the voice of God in our midst, Jessica began to pray for Lori – though she is cancer-free, her lungs have been scarred by radiation. Once a lung cell is no longer pliable, it doesn’t recover. We gather around Lori to concentrate our prayer, and find that she’s having back and leg pain as well. This wasn’t strategically planned, and it didn’t even fit into our liturgy (such as it is). It just occurred, organically.
What happened? We don’t know. Lori felt loved, that happened for sure. Perhaps more happened. The Kingdom surrounds us.
pat loughery 
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