Sunday, May 31, 2015

Spiritual Sunday: Healing Prayers on Sunday Morning

Jamal (Beauty), 15 ‘Aẓamat (Grandeur), 172 BE - Sunday, May 31, 2015 about 8:09 am Pacific Daylight Time

Sunday morning
I woke up in pain
because I lay down to sleep
last night.

I know better then to lay down to sleep because everything I lay on causes my back to hurt. I doesn't seem to matter whether it is a mattress, a couch, or a love-seat about halfway through the night I wake up with excruciating lower back pain. Last night or rather early this morning (about 12:30 or 1:00 am) the pain woke me up and I could hardly pull myself off of my love-seat because of it. I finally managed to sit up and then put my feet up on a large plastic storage container I keep in front of the love-seat. Because of the pain it took me a while to go back to sleep.

As I recite
the short healing prayer
revealed by Baha'u'llah
the pain subsides
in incremental amounts.

The last time I saw my doctor, I didn't have her renew the prescription for the pain medication. It's not that I don't need it, it's just that I don't like the idea of becoming addicted and the side-effects of the medication. I will see my doctor sometime in June so I'll ask her about over-the-counter meds. Then I'll discuss the pros and cons to see which is best for me. She may want me to go to a specialist before she prescribes or suggests any type of pain relievers.

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