Caring – Prayers and Well Wishes
So often, we or our loved ones, go through difficult times and need that bit of extra help sent our way. This is our prayer and special energy gift list – a place where you can ask to hold or be held in our weekly Sunday harp playing of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. For over 12 years now, we come together as a group of harpists to play this song when anyone in our IHTP family is going through tough times. Please scroll down to ask us to play for you on this coming Sunday.
For my son Brad who is facing a very serious illness and now doctors are looking for a mass in the gastrointestinal area. He lives in Amsterdam with his beautiful Dutch wife and three children 2,4,6.
He has been too weak to work. We are praying for some very good news as this illness has been present since last August with 4 hospital visits. Thank You to all my fellow harpers for your playing and support of me through these difficult and hard times
For Lynette, when we become parents we have signed up for a life long commitment. I am sure as a mother and grandmother, these are trying times for you. Know that you are loved by those who have known and seen your love. You will be held in our hearts through this crisis.
Anita Leschied
For those of you in Vermont last summer, you may remember me having trouble with my knee. I am having surgery next Tuesday, the 21st, for a torn miniscus. While I am not planning on going “Over the Rainbow”, I would love to know that my harp family are with me.
I’m hoping that my recovery time can be spent playing.
We need prayers badly for my daughter Jodi and her new baby boy coming. The baby has something wrong with one kidney, it may be a cyst inside that could be serious, also may have an extra tube
from the kidney. meanwhile it is filling up with fluid and they won’t do anything about it until he is born, too dangerous. He will need a surgery after he is born to drain the fluid in his kidneys, plus what else we don’t know.
Jodi is on total bed rest as this baby is trying to get out! Hospitalized twice last week for early labor (contractions 2-3 min apart! ) and she’s only 32 weeks along. We are asking our dear harp therapy friends for prayers for both of
them, that everything will turn out fine. Thank you!!!
Lynette
Dear Don,
I am a current IHTP student who recently listened to your conference call and watched videos of you presenting at a IHTP conference. The information you presented had a profound effect on me.
The happy and joyous activity using paper plates to Mozart music is etched in my memory, and I am using this activity in my music sessions with residents in an aged care facility, and with people with disabilities.
Importantly and profoundly, you encouraged us to build our own temples of sound within us, and to look at the elements of what makes a spiritual environment for us.
You led us in a very powerful meditation to Mozart music which is also etched in my memory. The meditation encouraged us to consider the elements that have called us to the realm of healing. You led us to gather the energies of our teachers and ancestors who had bought us to heal with music. I experienced goose bumps watching and participating in this meditation. It had a very powerful impact on me.
Sending you love, light and prayers,
Rhonda Ward
Dear Don,
Although I have never had the pleasure of meeting you, upon watching and listening to a prior IHTP conference where you presented, I was enamored. Went on to zealously purchase many of your books and CDs. I have shared much of your teachings with friends and family.
You have motivated me to create a sound environment conducive to healing not only for myself but my family and patients and their families.
Thank you for your humor, your wisdom and your insight. I will continue to hold you in prayer and join our ITHP community in playing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
Fondly,
Claire Guggenheim
Dear Deahn, My heart goes out to you-my own husband had a severe stroke several years ago. I felt much the same as you have said in your post. What you are doing takes great courage and love. May you and John be filled with Grace and Light.
Dear Deahn, Both you and John are in my prayers. I pray that you will gain clarity and strength during this difficult time. Kate
Dear Don, I was so blessed by the workshop I did with you in SanDiego in 2009. It was so worth while coming from Australia to attend. I have a news paper article about you, that I cut out from an Aust. news paper, in my files. You are an inspiration!!! I was sad to read about your health issues and pray that you will be given strength during this difficult time and will receive healing. God be with you. You are in my prayers. Carla Whiteley.
Cathy DeWitt writes: Dear Tina and fellow harpists,
There was a horrible accident on I-75 just outside of Gainesville late Saturday night…Smoke from a brush fire combined with fog caused a sudden lack of visibility, and as cars slowed down or stopped, they were slammed into by semis, tractor-trailers, trucks and other cars– a domino effect caused a pile-up of about twenty vehicles, several of which exploded and burst into flames. Ten people were killed, and many more remain in the hospital in critical condition. You can read about this at the newspaper’s online site, http://www.gainesville.com.
Please include these folks in your thoughts and musical prayers this week.
Thanks–
Namaste,
Cathy
My husband, John Johnson suffered a severe stroke in on Thanksgiving 2010. It has been 14 months of struggle and therapies to no avail. He still suffers from aphasia (lack of speech), right side paralyzation, incontinence, and most likely depressio n. I cannot reach him, he cannot reach me,he seems to be weakening and my hope is slipping through my fingertips. Having him at home and being his caregiver for so long has taken its tole. I am at a turning point and need to make a decision as to how to best serve both our needs. The guilt is overbearing even though well meaning friends tell me I have done all I could. I am not sure who I am anymore as I have given up all the unique parts of me to become everything for him. I need prayers for clarity to make the hard decisions for the best and highest good of all involved.
Dear Don,
You and Bela are in our thoughts and prayers. Buffy (not the vampire slayer, short for buffalo) would like to send her positive bark and lick to Bela!
Kate
I just read your letter stating your physical problem which seems to be quite severe and difficult. I wish you God’s speed in coping with this difficulty and many blessings for the future. Remember always that we are spiritual beings in the physical body and that you are being blessed in the Light. Anne Elizabeth Evans