Family Prayer

Dear God, it is a little bit of an honor to be asked to pray.  Family members seem to recognize that we believe in You and have a relationship with You.  My cousin Kathryn apparently asked, through my mother, that we pray for her son Michael's stage 2 melanoma.  And so, I pray.  I ask You not just for healing, but for a wake-up call that life is much more than we experience here on earth.  I ask that Michael looks more deeply into his life and his heart and sees his spiritual poverty--and then turns to You, the King of Kings and the One Who gave it all up for him.  Let this turn his eyes upon Jesus.  Let his experience be that of many in the Gospels: "Go.  Your faith has saved you."  And then, almost incidentally, you are physically healed, too.  In Jesus's name~~Amen.