Prayer Request: Pray for Jennifer Heddy Godden, 27

Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011
From: David Allen <davida@ssje.org>
Subject: [EAM] FW: A Story and a Request

I received this prayer request last night before I had begun getting ready for bed.  I forwarded it to several members of the SSJE Community here at Emery House. 

It was only after I was in bed trying to get to sleep that I realized that one of the best places to send a prayer request is the EAM Network, especially as Peter Lawson, the grandfather of Jennifer Godden, was part of EAM some years ago when he was Interim at the Church of Our Savior in Oakland, California. 

So I now forward it to all of you my friends and spiritual colleagues in the EAM, in hope that your prayers can be a powerful source of healing to get Jennifer through her surgery on Monday, July 11.

David Allen, SSJE 
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From: Peter Lawson <peterrlawson@mac.com>
Subject: A Story and a Request
Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2011

A story and a request from Peter & Danielle Lawson

Jennifer Heddy Godden is our 27-year-old granddaughter in law, wife of our grandson Peter Godden, mother of our two great grandsons Mason and Parker. When Jenny was six months old she had open-heart surgery to correct a congenital defect. Jenny was not aware that she would have to have more corrective cardiac surgery later in life until she was pregnant with Parker when she was told by her physicians that after his birth she should immediately prepare for open-heart surgery.

On Thursday, July 7, Jenny had her final physical exam before her surgery which is scheduled for Monday, July 11. She was cleared for surgery and will be arriving at the University of California Medical Center at 5:00 AM (Pacific Time) on July 11th for a procedure that will give her a heart valve from a pig, dilate her pulmonary aorta and do another minor cardiac repair.

We have great confidence in her cardiac surgeon with whom we are familiar because he operated on our late great-granddaughter Sophia. We have confidence in the staff at UCSF and we have confidence in  Jenny, who after thinking for most of her life that she was a wuss and a slacker because she didn’t have as much energy as other people her age, is really tough as nails and as sweet and loving a woman as you might ever meet.

Our request is that you join a wide circle of folks sending Jenny your healing energy; which is to say sending her your loving care and your intentions for her wholeness.

If it please you, light a candle on Sunday evening July 10th and every time you look at that candle simply focus on sending your loving, healing energy to Jenny. Before you go to bed extinguish the candle. No fires please. At 7:30 AM in the next morning, in whatever time zone you live, please relight the candle and send Jenny your healing love through Monday evening.

If you would like a report on Monday evening on Jenny’s progress, please respond to this e-mail, and I will put you on a list for report.

(Email to:  Peter Lawson <peterrlawson@mac.com>)
With all things working together for good, we expect that by Wednesday Jenny will feel better than she has felt in years in spite of some residual pain from her surgery.

May you be enlightened each day by a circle of healing love,

Peter & Danielle

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