I've been thinking about one of the Psalms appointed for Morning Prayer yesterday: Psalm 30. I think this was one of the Psalms used a month ago when the congregation for a prayer service for me. It sure applies to someone who has endured a medical crisis, and who has experienced God's healing.

The Psalms nourish our faith as the words of a Psalm become our prayer. Have you suffered through a diagnosis of cancer? Or known the depression that often comes after major surgery? Or endured a period of depression? What has been your experience, your need for healing? Pray Psalm 30, reading in what you have suffered, and what God has healed. Here's how to do that.

V. 1: "My foes" = histoplasmosis pneumonia for me. What has it been for you?

V. 3: "Sheol" and "the pit" = the days I was kept alive by respirator. What was it for you?

Now, after you have read through the Psalm, inserting your own experience, pray the Psalm. Do that by reading the words slowly, lingering over a phrase or a verse that catches your attention. What is God saying to you in that phrase? How is God bringing you healing?

Thanks be to God, ever-faithful, who is the source of all healing.