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July 5, 2008
` I had been “going through” an experience that was typical of the members of my generation” being caregiver to a parent”. During that care giving experience, I had suffered injury to my hands. With all the turning and assistance with transferring to standing and sitting positions - I developed “trigger finger” to my left and right middle fingers and my right thumb. Not only could I not bend those fingers, they were swollen, inflamed, warm to touch, and when those fingers had gotten bent by mistake - I experienced excruciating pain as the fingers locked in place and had to be moved by the other hand into the proper position to relieve the pain .
We take our hands for granted... We write and type e-mails with them, comb our hair, put on our makeup, open doors, carry groceries wash our faces with them, wipe ourselves after going to the bathroom, etc. , Gripping and hold onto pots and pans, unscrewing tops on jars, and soda bottles were impossible for me to do !! I had to ask others and family members to perform these functions for me. At night, my hands would ache. I was told I would need to see a hand surgeon to fix the problem. That just was not an option to me. I felt that if I put principal to work and had physical therapy all would be well. Besides that, I had taken prescription Motrin and generic ibuprofen- to no avail.
By chance, one day , I saw the physical therapist at my job – he suggested that I keep moving the fingers and to get a steroid injection. By this time – my hand pain is interfering with my driving. And… let’s not talk about the times that the fingers were hit mistakenly or jammed in the course of a day doing my usual course of duties. My handwriting had even changed because of the position in which I was now forced to hold my pen.
When I heard of the healing workshop I was so anxious to participate that I had totally forgotten that I was going on a cruise and would not even be able to attend the first session. But, I did not let that deter me from attending all of the other sessions.
As a participant in the healing workshop of Rev. Eric Ovid Donaldson, I expected to at least feel good if not wondrous and lifted. I did not anticipate being healed from a physical perspective. I had no idea or preconceived notion of having my hand healed.
The first inkling I had of my right hand being “different” was during a small group exercise to discuss the issue of our healing in a particular attribute of God as demonstrated in a picture that we brought to the workshop. My attribute was “substance”.
I related how I felt in a picture of me and my sister having lunch at the Eiffel Tower in Paris France. I went to Paris after taking 6 months off from a very lucrative position to care for my father. I related how during that experience, I discovered that jobs were merely channels and that God was truly the source of my supply and substance. During this experience, I rec’d a car as a gift, went to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, went to Paris for an all-expense paid vacation, and had enough resources to pay all my “bills/investments”. I had the absolute experience of God as “Substance”.
During my testimony, I felt warmth in my hands. During the testimony of the other 2 participants, the warmth intensified. … I was cautious. I did not want to say anything. I wasn’t really sure what was happening. I looked down at my right hand – I was able to bend my thumb for the first time in over 6 months. I could hardly believe what I was seeing.
At the conclusion of the whispering event of the workshop, I noticed I was actually able to clinch my right hand into a fist!! The energy vibration was so high during that experience that I was unaware that I was even clinching my hand. I had been holding the hand of another participant during the exercise and I reached up to wipe tears from my face at the conclusion of the whispering exercise. That’s when I realized, I had no pain in my hands when my fingers were bent.
By the time Rev Eric played our “special” healing song for substance – “A Whole New World” by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle, I had accepted the fact that I was having a healing experience. I danced, and felt so light and free. The others there had no idea what I was experiencing, but I knew.
The next day at the healing workshop ceremony, I almost did not testify – I felt I didn’t want to speak too fast, didn’t want to jinx my healing; I didn’t want to interfere with the healing. I sat and I sat, and I sat until I found myself on my feet and Spirit spoke through me to give testimony about the healing of my right hand. That I was able to bend my fingers for the first time in almost a year!!