I am definitely a Holy Spirit person. I feel most alive when I am creative - when new things are blowing through me and I am inspired. This is particularly true when I am experiencing new forms of connectedness and relationship. After all one theological approach to the Holy Spirit is through the connectedness of the persons of God!

But this morning, laying on the radiation table, praying, I realized I direct prayer for healing to God as the Creator, the one who calls me into being. Or perhaps to a different persona of sort - a beloved image from my childhood as a Roman Catholic (though this is not a strictly Roman Catholic Image) of the great physician. This is particularly true in these days when my life is touched by so many caring, committed, capable, and surely called health professionals!

When I am lying on the radiation table, I pray. They say that visualization is good for cancer, so I pray visually, using an image that is a gift from my Quaker brothers and sisters, that of holding someone in the light (and assuming it is OK in this instance to hold MYSELF in the light.) I imagine myself in the light of God's presence, the healing light of the Great Physician, which surrounds me for that five to ten minutes when God is also in the machine and the hands and minds of the technicians and doctors around me.

It helps make me aware that these difficult times are still gifts, when God's love surrounds me, supports me, and guides me. It makes me feel very blessed.