Week 28: The Father’s Blessing at the Conference

At a large conference one morning, ushers seated a man beside a woman he did not know. While they waited for the event to begin, they chatted briefly. He offered her a small booklet about the power of blessing, and she began to leaf through it.

After a few moments she looked up and softly asked, “Would you bless me?”

He asked, “Has your father ever laid hands on you and spoken a blessing over your life?”
She shook her head.

“May I bless you in his place?” he asked.

She nodded. From the moment he laid hands on her and spoke words of blessing, she wept—tears of release and healing that poured out from long-held pain. When he finished, he gave her a warm, fatherly embrace.

Two weeks later a message arrived from her:
“Before the conference I prayed for three things — one of them was for my father to say ‘sorry’ to me. He had hurt me in ways a father should not. God is so amazing: He arranged for you to sit next to me and to say those words on behalf of my father. That’s why I cried so much — I felt God was real and had answered my prayer in such an incredible way. I would like to have more booklets to send to friends and bless them.”

That simple act of blessing answered a prayer and opened a path toward healing—one seat, one booklet, one father’s word offered where it had been missing.