Healing from Illness

While there are many traditional Jewish prayers for healing, the feminist movement empowered first women and then men and women to create many more prayers and ceremonies which spoke to the specific situations in which they found themselves. The complexity of modern medicine has added to this need for prayers for medical tests, prayers before surgery, prayers after chemotherapy and for each chemo session, etc. In addition, several writers on Ritualwell have created ceremonies to celebrate an important anniversary in relationship to their disease. 

 

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“However we have abused ourselves or others, something within us remains pure”
Prayer for the journey of chemotherapy and the light which is carried within it
“To see each member of our community / With clear eyes and an open heart”  
“We are each created in the image of sacred divinity and worthy of honor”
“Help me find my voice to fight for my needs”

“Help us to find holiness in this time”

“I see the words of my prayers / wrap themselves around you”

“There is nothing like death / To bring a clarity to vision.”

“Bless and heal the named and unnamed ones”

Poem on parenting new baby struggling to feed 

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