My Daughters of the King chapter is holding two 24-hr. prayer vigils for our sister, Janet Brown. Janet has acute myeloid leukemia and will have a stem cell transplant on November 1 - All Saints' Day. Prior to that, she will start an EXTREMELY intensive chemo regimen on October 25 (tomorrow). Our two vigils are on those days, from midnight 'round the clock.
Please join us in praying for Janet's healing before, during, and after this crucial procedure. I have shared the resources below with my chapter and thought my bloggy friends might enjoy them also.
I commend to you Gratefulness.org, one of the several websites I know of that allows you to light a virtual candle, indicate for whom it is lit, and keep it on your computer desktop throughout the day.
If you light a candle for Janet there, you may enter "group initials" of JFB (Janet Francesca Brown) which will put all of our Janet candles together.
I also recommend EchoPrayer, which, when you program it, will send you prayer reminders as frequently as you wish (I get them every 2 hours). 
This year our DOK group is studying prayer, and our first program was by Fr. David on "Why Pray?" He pointed out that God loves us and wants that intimate prayer relationship with us...and that we need it with God....and if we don't take time apart for it, the relationship isn't going to happen. I think it's a bit like a married couple who end up as roommates and no more, because they never talk to one another.
OK, and so a prayer vigil seems to me a different sort of thing: in addition to our regular relationship time with God, we are taking very specific time to hold Janet up to the Light, praying for God's best for her and that she will know how loved and treasured she is. It's not magic...it's bigger than magic.
In my mind's eye I see a great glow descending upon the Stem Cell Transplant Unit at Medical City Dallas. Here's Medical City. I hope it's ready.
Thanks be to God!
