Of course, this consecrated Catholic hermit's work is prayer. And that is in any season. Yet now, while physically hindered by sinus troubles (realize vertigo I am experiencing is not from antibiotic although can be a side effect, but rather from jammed sinuses), and with the dire needs of 16-year-old fighting for a chance to live, this particular prayer work is foremost.
The Lord has my undivided attention. Yes, I also have other prayer intentions given me, and part of me prays for all those and all the needs of all the souls and situations on earth and not on earth. I've asked the Lord to have whatever aspects of my being the grace of perpetual prayer, consciously and subconsciously.
In the contemplative and more unitive praying, the intellect does not have to know. Even the will, most near center of one's soul along with the intellect, does not need to act. God's Will is the Enactor. God's Mind is the Thought.
All this is in faith. Faith is the only means for how this is so.
My role in the temporal right now is to use my little, old, used phone to text those prayer warriors who are involved in this particular prayer need of the sweet child hooked up to dialysis machine in a top-notch hospital for children.
The risky treatment started at midnight last at first had positive increase in her blood's ability to clot. But by early morning the reverse affect began; the clotting capabilities went down. As a result of the team of specialists' meeting at 9 a.m. there, they have decided to go ahead with a procedure at 1 p.m. (Eastern time in United States) to get marrow sample. This sample is crucial to help doctors know what is the cause and source of this life-threatening infection.
The risk is that the patient can bleed to death simply by the procedure to collect sample. But there are no other temporal options.
And once again, we come up to the temporal realm which is one of our realities. Just one--the supernatural realities, the realities of the spiritual realm are our true and predominant world. It is the realm in which we will exist for eternity; it is the realm of heaven. A small portion of humans live more in the spiritual realm than the temporal even though they live on earth. There are quite a few others who, while living on earth, experience the spiritual realm off and on in varying degrees of length of time and depth of what is also called a life of union in Christ, mystical union, spiritual union.
Then there are the bulk of people on earth who are not aware of the predominance of the spiritual realm nor that when we die to this temporal life, our lives continue but fully in the spiritual realm for eternity. We can grasp why, then, the spiritual is predominant and why increasing awareness of and union with God is so desirable and efficacious while we are yet in the temporal.
However, we are in the temporal, now, and that is maybe like our soul anchored by a thin line as if from a wee boat in a vast ocean.
Just received a more in-depth explanation of teen's medical status and what is the battle waging in her body. I appreciate the technical explanation; but I don't think I will try to explain it to my aunt--her great-grandmother. Nor will I to try to figure out how to cut-and-paste from a cell phone message or how to transfer to such as Facebook or my laptop in order to email the description.
The simple updates via tech communications are what I can do; I'm not adept with other techniques. And I have anyway been praying for God to give Divine Illumination to the doctors so that they could receive the answer as to what is causing her cells to be fighting each other rather than the infection, since the procedure to try to ascertain has the risk of her basically bleeding to death.
And I am also asking the Lord if for whatever reason the Divine Illumination is not His Will, or if the doctor/s cannot "hear" or not able to discern or trust a Divine Illumination, that the procedure of this bone marrow biopsy be successful without the dire potentials.
(We know how difficult it is for us humans to discern and very much so to trust Divine Illumination. Even in small matters in which the more in-tune might feel a nudge within, to recognize it or to act on it. God's Voice through the Holy Spirit is often not even sensed; or otherwise is often not acted upon. I have done this too many times to painfully remember! I might get even a blatant message--yet talk myself out of it, and then face the consequences that are never pleasant because I have to live out harder temporal consequences.)
Ultimately it takes a great belief and trust, a blind faith so-to-speak, in God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as we hope to learn more of what helps us to increasingly function on earth, in our temporal bodies and temporal world, yet with the greater capacities of awareness of and loving desire in God's Divinity and Grace.
Simple love, simple faith, simple hope. Praise and adoration of the Trinity. Love and trust.
God bless His Real Presence in us!
[Just received word that word on "Alayna" is spreading on social media and is on a site in which families can share medical details and updates. I am going to keep my praying quite simple, although I recognize that more technical details and other details some people need. Rumors in such situations are part of process. Some people find a luridness in the details and will be distracted by them, and others will handle the details and be able to pray also. But prayer of the heart and better yet of the soul, is what I desire: praising God, adoring Him, and simple requesting, for He already knows in this case time of procedure, the risk of her bleeding to death, what organs are shutting down, that she is on ventilator and sedated, and what will be His Decision and Outcome and for what are His Reasons.]
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