Reminder to Pray

Beverly Seng

January 2024

A few years ago when I was relatively new to healing prayer, I hosted in my living room a meeting of the board of a small local non-profit, for which I was the secretary. I was a relative newbie to this group. An altercation developed between two of the board members. I was flabbergasted. I had had no idea that there was a history of acrimony between these two, I liked both of them, and also I was amazed that they would say such awful things to each other, in front of the rest of us! 

Eventually one of the two got up to leave—it was getting toward midnight, and resolution seemed impossible. I asked this person to stay. (I had a wild thought in my head: Don’t let the sun go down on your anger! I didn’t say so out loud, however.) The person looked at my face and said, “Well, I’ll stay if you think I should,” and sat back down. I silently prayed, “Jesus, I don’t know what to do! You have to do something!” And immediately the altercation just melted away. I could not even track how the conversation turned to charity, whether either of them apologized, or just what happened. The snarl just unraveled.

Since then I try to remember to pray before all meetings–sacred or secular, in person or on zoom–especially for those for which I have some particular role or duty. It does make a difference. People seem more loving and more uplifted when I have remembered to ask Jesus to take care of our meeting.

Click here to see a musical offering from Beverly https://www.dropbox.com/s/wjtniu4xs0mlsg3/Jesu Joy.mov?dl=0