Hierarchy of Needs

Nightly Gathering Open Thread Post 149

I learned about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in college and definitely experienced it this weekend with my back spasms. All I cared about or could think about when I awoke today was preventing any movement that would cause a painful spasm, and eventually spending the rest of the day nursing the pain from them and alternating icing and heating, and stretching to also prevent them. As I write this, I've had a lot of success and feel like tomorrow could be fairly normal.

I can't say I thought about Morgan at all until mid-day when I realized I was out of the woods. That hierarchy proved itself today.

Thanks to everyone who offered encouragement and or prayer, even if it wasn't revealed. One day I'll reveal more of the plot of the book S and I are writing, but one way we show, and I actually do believe to be true, is how prayer works.

I think there is energy that God works with where prayers of others are something like light particles that then attach themselves to the person being genuinely prayed for. It helps, protects, and gives them whatever is needed. The pray-er doesn't even need to know the specifics, but it is the faith of the pray-er itself that makes it work.

I see that is how we've been helped through our deep loss of Morgan from the beginning and through the present. I had my own prayers today for God to help me do the right things to get me through the spasms, and the deep thankfulness when I'd realized I was finally over a threshold.

I pray for so many of you as well when I come across your names scrolling who subscribes and whatnot. You keep me going and I thank you, but please know I pray for you, too. Not everybody every day, but as the spirit leads.

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The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives.

Psalms 37:23 NLT