My initial post was to recommend a chapter on forgiveness in a book on emotional healing(Going Through the Journey of Healing by Sharon Lewis). The book is primarily a description of processes and procedures in a model of Christian Healing Prayer. It is an approach to emotional healing through a type of prayer which makes use of a person’s religious faith in the Christian trinitarian (father, son, holy spirit) God. In my cruising through the Spirituality forums recently, it appears that there are some members who maintain a belief in the Christian God. Any holding a belief in God, as well as anyone who was open to being introduced to Christian faith and belief in God (through prayer, not indoctrination) would be candidates for this method of emotional healing. My interest and motivation for introducing this is hopefully to open another potential door for some members, who feel they could, without too many reservations, engage in such an approach, and find pain reduction and emotional/spiritual healing. Three websites which are into providing such services are: christianhealingministries.org look for ‘personal ministry’, they have online or in-person appointments in Jacksonville. healingcare.org look for ‘counseling’ (they want to charge $115/hr. online, if you hunt around I think they have a list of practitioners by state-most are therapists and will probably charge). Order of St. Luke’s, OSLtoday.org look for “find healing” and ‘online center’. OSL is in the process of setting up their online (virtual) scheduled/walk in appointments for healing ministry. To my knowledge, Christian healing ministries and OSL do not charge but usually welcome donations. These are human organizations and thus flawed, but I would like to hope that with patience and persistence, the effort to seek them out could be rewarding. Some other related books are: Healing, and The Power to Heal, by Francis McNutt; Healing Care, Healing Prayer by Terry Wardle; Two Hands a guide to inner healing prayer by Ann Muller. In the bible, blind Bartimaeus’ prayer was, “Jesus of Nazareth, son of David, have pity on me (us?)”. See if he answers.