March 5 - Lisa

Day sixty-four.

I had a photo blown up today and Lisa is the person who checked me out. This is the second time I've seen her and both times I have thought to myself "Maybe I should pray for her." and I just didn't do it.

1. She doesn't seem like someone who would say yes. I have gotten good at being able to tell who might be more open to it.

2. She is the manager of the store so she might have been busy.

But, today I decided to go ahead and tell her that I felt like God was asking me to pray for her and this isn't the first time I felt that way. I gave her an out by saying "You can totally say no thank you and I'll just leave. It's no big deal." But she agreed to let me pray. So I asked if she needed prayer for anything. If she had any pain in her body or if she had any emotional hurts going on. She said her back was hurting.

So I prayed for her back. I did not ask her a pain scale before hand so #LessonLearned But when I was finished praying I did ask her how it felt and if it felt any better. She said that it did feel better and I asked her again just to make sure. I told her it would be ok if it didn't feel better that it wouldn't hurt my feelings. She insisted that it did feel better.

I don't know if it's my fleshly skepticism or if she just didn't seem convincing. But, it got awkward for me to keep asking about it so I just thanked her for letting me pray and told her that I would keep praying for her. So... I'm going to try again by asking if someone has any pain in their body to see if I can get a do-over. I'm trying to consider it a victory today and get better in the future.

#LessonsLearned