A Prayer For The Healing Of Memories

In any worshiping community, there are persons, perhaps many persons, who suffer each day because of persistent memories of traumatic events in their past. Whether abused by a close relation, injured in war or in an accident, or rejected by a given person or group, memories can be a source of perpetual pain and affliction. The following prayer addresses such painful memories. Adapt or shorten as local situations may require. We are grateful, Lord Jesus. Grateful that there isn't any time in your world. Grateful that you can walk back through our lives-all the way back to the very moment we were conceived, and you can heal us even then. You can free us from all those things that may have caused us difficulty at the moment of our conception, whether we were conceived in an act of love or whether we were an accident. And as we were being formed within our mother's womb, you were there, to heal and liberate us from any disturbing impressions that may have touched us from our mother or …