A Day of Firsts

Every Tuesday afternoon, there is a prayer group that meets after work. All employees are invited to attend, and the number of attendees varies. This school year, my prayer requests have pretty much stayed the same. Healing for my family members whom are sick and for the Lord to hear my prayers and bless Scott and I with a child. The most frequent request being blessing us with a child.

We had our prayer meeting the staff lounge, due the the heat and it is air conditioned. I sat my fanny down on the couch. A coworker that knows just how much I do not like to be touched sat next to me. Within minutes, she was leaning against me...trying to cuddle. I was not happy. Now I could have pushed her away, but she is very sensitive and I didn't want to offend her. I just took some deep breaths and tried not to think about the fact that my personal space bubble had not only been invaded, but POPPED!

Don't let the smile fool you, I was very uncomfortable.

I managed to let her lean/cuddle for the entire prayer group. This was a first. I am going to try to allow others to intrude upon my personal bubble in the future.

The most important first that happened today happened at the end of prayer group. A co-worker was lead to ask all of the group to lay hands on me to pray. He was brought to tears before he prayed. Talk about popping my personal bubble! I had at least 8 hands on me. I really appreciated the prayer and it meant a lot. But honestly, I couldn't quite take it all in and pray along with them because I was focused on people touching me. I hope and pray that my distracted state didn't counteract the prayer.