234 - A Song of Healing

We are still glowing from E.G and Mario’s wedding and the wonderful week we spent getting to know his family. And yet, even that happiness had its own cloud as we knew that Dora, the groom’s mother, was returning home to immediately begin new chemotherapy for recurrent breast cancer.

In the United States, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and the triplet of self-exams, regular physician evaluation and yearly mammograms has become a mantra. But sometimes the disease is aggressive. We can only hope and pray to slow the inevitable for our Dora. Please hold her in your own prayers.

Two Hundred Thirty-Four

A Song of Healing
For Dora

Divine Healer, temper my days,
Open Your hand with compassion;
Remember my name with tenderness,
Align me toward stability.
Furnish my nights with soft dreams,
Dread relinquished.
Alter the adversity of treatment,
New hope after anguish;
Grant me a length of days,
Even a length more:
Let me see my children’s future.
Infinite is Your mercy and protection,
Notice me for Your care,
Answer my heart’s plea.