A Note from Debbie

We are powerful.  It is hard to remember that.  Sometimes life takes its turns into the unknown and presents us with challenges we would have preferred not to encounter under any circumstances. Suddenly we are confronted with our pain.  

It is a strange thing that pain creates beauty and potential for healing.  It is hard to imagine that it can provide a foundation for beautiful moments to arise.  We attempt to find a way to manage survival from one minute to the next, as pain becomes the overriding force. When we are experiencing emotional discomfort, we need to find a safe place to express our grief and loss.  

The willingness to both offer and receive blessings of healing and well-being allows one who is wounded to transform and unravel their pain. Our pain need not bury us, instead it may elevate us to the point of healing - if we choose to allow it.

It is with this concept in mind that the Mi Shebeirach, the prayer for healing, which is a concise English translation of the traditional prayer, is now available for you to download. For those who know it and use it, use it in good health. Use it for yourselves, for others, and for those in your lives who do not know it, but may need it.

With this, you become the messenger.  We are not just the recipients of blessings, but the messengers of blessings as well.  Remember, out of what emerges from life’s painful challenges will come our healing. And ultimately, our greatest healing will come when we use our suffering to heal another’s pain – “to release another from their confinement.”

And you shall be a blessing,
Debbie