Look who’s not a baby anymore!
So life goes on at the House of Prince, miles and miles away from where my mother lies in her hospital bed, pumping that morphine as fast as her little thumb can pump it. She called me yesterday, hours after she awoke, sounding like she was on the Best Drug Ever. She pulled through her surgery just fine, and hopefully after a few weeks of recover and TLC from my dad, she will be as good as new.
I want to thank you all for your wishes, good vibes, and prayers. And let me take a moment to say something about Blog Prayers. I have encountered offers of prayers in comments sections of various blogs over the past few years. You see them on the infertile websites when a woman is cycling. You see them when someone is being checked out for cancer, or when a blogger’s loved one is sick. You saw a lot of them after Hurricane Katrina.
I wonder if these prayers work. Prayers from almost strangers. People who read about your life and and think about you, putting their own vibes out into the universe, hoping that you are going to be okay. I have done it myself. I remember quite clearly praying for Lisa Mamalife when her baby girl was sick. Even though I don’t pray. I thought maybe if I prayed, God will know it’s serious. Like when I swear – since I don’t swear as much anymore, people know I’m serious when I do let it fly.
I was reluctant to ask for your prayers, because I felt that if I did I would be asking too much. Wishes seemed like a reasonable request. And the prayers that you did offer were one step beyond what I asked. Even if all of the goodness that you – friends, family, and eFriends – sent us didn’t make a difference to my mother’s colon, MY knowing that you were thinking of us made ME feel really good.
I told her about your comments yesterday during her Morphine High. She seemed to be very happy to hear about them. Of course, I could have told her that I just brought in the mail and she would have been psyched.
Anyway, thank you. From the bottom of my very real heart. Even though many of us have never met, it’s important to remember that we are flesh and blood, and we affect each other. Thank God.
Thanks for the update on your mom, I am glad she is doing good. I was thinking about you guys!
And you are right, he is such a big boy!
Happy Friday!
I prayed for her. I don’t think it matters to God that I don’t know her. He does.
Also, I wonder – what’s the difference really between a prayer said by someone who doesn’t pray and a wish? What can a wish do anyway? Nothing, really. Just my 2 cents.
But isn’t a wish the same thing as a prayer, just called something different?
I’m glad that your mom is doing better. I’ll continue to think about her and hope for her speedy recovery. Surgeries are scary.
I’m glad mom is doing well.
Kyle looks so big in that picture!
I feel like a wish and a prayer are different. A prayer is more serious. Maybe a wish is an atheist version of a prayer.
Thanks for the update on your mom. I am SO glad she is doing okay! Those pain meds can be nice when you really need them.
Still keeping your mom in my thoughts 🙂
Never hesitate to ask people for prayers or wishes. You will find that if people know you are troubled they send good vibes instinctively. And it helps. I found that out with grampa – and you’re right, if nothing else it helps you to know you have people rallying around you.
Like you, I don’t pray. Like you, I think the times I rarely do it must be taken seriously. I think a wish is a way of saying a prayer by those of us who believe putting these good thoughts out into the universe can help but who don’t necessarily believe in the whole organized religion/ white male god/ you’re going to hell if you don’t believe and act exactly as we say you must deal. I’m glad your mom is going to be okay. I’ll continue to send good speedy recovery thoughts her way. And thank you for your prayers/wishes/whatever you like to call them when my baby was so sick and I was so scared for her. I believe having my internet friends sending good vibes her way helped her. Like you, I know it helped me.
Hi, thanks for stopping by my blog. It’s nice to meet you 🙂
I’m glad that all is well with your mom. And your son is super cute!
so glad to hear your mom is recovering.
it is strange and not at the same time to think about our blog world friends. i had your blog up just last night, and my girls came in the room and saw a picture of kyle and said how cute he was. then they said, “have we met him?” and i said, no, i think he lives in california. it was strange to say, but i keep up with his mom… but i do. strangers or not, i will continue to pray for your mother.
I am glad to hear that your Mom is doing well. Prayer or wish, you felt better for it, your Mom is doing well maybe, in a small way, because of them and that is really all that matters…..
A wish and a prayer are, to one who believes in someone to pray to, entirely different things.
If you believe we are alone, subject only to chance, then they are the same.
As for me, I believe in and follow an infinite God. Big enough to create and control the entirety of space and time. Big enough even to be aware of and care about the smallest of his children in all circumstances. For me a wish is simply an unexpressed desire; a prayer is a request of my heavenly Father. A Father who loves us dearly – even when we turn away from him. A Father who can do anything. A Father who knows what is best for us, even when we cannot see it ourselves.
My prayers are always there for the asking. I am glad our prayers were answered as we wished, Kim, and that your mother is doing well. I will pray for continued healing for her and peace at heart for you.
Well, now that I came back and read the rest of the comments I was going to something else about the prayer/wish thing. But, in typical OddMix fashion, he pretty much summed up my sentiments – and much better than I could say anyway. So, ditto.
And thanks for the nice comment about my shop.