Irritable Bowel Syndrome healed

It had been a long and difficult journey navigating my way through depression. A battle fought on many fronts – mind, spirit, body. Healing my past ended up being key and nothing was a more significant step forward than forgiving my father – not only for the hurtful things he had done in the past but more so for the things he hadn’t done, his omissions. My father never told me he loved me. He had an emotional block. Finding loving, caring, emotional words was not something he could say, despite my soul craving it. 

Whilst through the forgiveness and inner healing journey my depression lifted, I still carried some physical symptoms, the biggest being irritable bowel syndrome, for which I had been prescribed drugs and a diet from my doctor with some but little effect, which I was told was to manage the symptoms as opposed to remedy. 

A friend of mine Richard had been telling me stories about the father’s blessing, and what response people had. Something in my spirit caught hold of the idea. I became aware of the fact that while I had forgiven my father for the gap he left, I hadn’t actually filled the gap or satisfied my soul’s craving. 

And so it happened. One morning in a café, over breakfast, Richard stepped into the shoes my father couldn’t fill and blessed me as a son. The Holy Spirit fell on me and remained with me that entire day. It was a beautiful experience and that part of my soul which had been crying out was at peace. 

An unexpected outcome however was that my symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome stopped completely. My medication and doctor’s diet were thrown out when my soul received what it had been craving; my body was healed too. 

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