Anxiety

In my blog post Seeing the Light, I wrote about how God healed me of anxiety when I was 22 years old. I was healed of it for about ten years then when I was 32 years it came back. I had pretty bad anxiety after a accident when I was 45 years old Then the anxiety got really bad during the pandemic and I had been struggling ever since.

Today I watched a daily service at Catholic church named St Jude’s and at the end everyone prayed together to ask St. Jude to pray for them and I prayed along. I asked St. Jude to pray that God would heal me of this anxiety and take it away.

I have a dentist appointment today and after I took my shower, I felt really anxious at about 11:30 a.m. Then around 12:30 p.m. a feeling of peace came over me, similar to how it felt when God healed me of anxiety the first time. Only time will tell if I am completely healed, but I believe asking St Jude to pray for me made a difference.

This blog post is a thank you to St Jude Thaddeus for praying for me. He was an apostle of Jesus. He is the patron saint of impossible causes and hopeless cases, and I have asked him more than once to pray for me and for friends.

Last fall I fasted and prayed a novena (which is nine days of prayer) to St Jude to asked him to pray for a friend, who had a tumor on her bladder. When the doctor went in to perform surgery on it, he could not find anything. The tumor was gone.

You might think praying to saints this sounds strange if you are not Catholic, or Eastern Orthodox or Anglican, and I used to struggle with asking saints to pray for us but there has been too many prayers answered to deny the power of it.

Thank you St Jude!