11/04/2026
The next Healing Prayer session is Sunday April 12th at 10am at St Helens Meeting House. We hope to see you all there. Let us know if you would like to have someone held in the Light for Healing.
“I am holding you in the Light. We Quakers say that when we intend to pray for someone, when we want for someone, what God wants for them – peace and healing and well-being and soundness of mind and body and spirit. Though we often say it very casually, without much thought, it is more than just words. To hold someone in the Light is not a casual greeting that we toss out without thought. It is a promise to work for the betterment and well-being of another. We shouldn’t say it unless we are prepared to do it. If we say to them “I will hold you in the Light”, we need to be prepared to lift them up. That is one aspect, our willingness to work for the betterment and well-being of another, to hold them in the light when they cannot hold themselves in the light.
Now let us go a little further. We can hold someone in the light, and we can also hold someone to the Light. That is, we can hold someone to the Light when they are tempted to walk in darkness. To hold someone to the light is to hold them up to the Light of God’s love, mercy and justice when they are tempted to walk in darkness. It is not to scold or nag or condemn.
It is simply to hold one another accountable to the higher Light and Life to which all humans are called. We hold others in the Light. We lift them up in the Light of God’s Love and Goodness when they are unable to lift themselves. And we hold ourselves and othersto the Light.
We keep before them, and ourselves, a vision of the Grace and Forgiveness to which we all are called. We say “Remember who we are. We are merciful, not vengeful. We are charitable, not intolerant. We are generous, not miserly. Even when others have forgotten what they are to be, let us not forget who we are to be”
We live in the Light. We live and hold others in the Light. We hold ourselves and others tothe Light.”
