So I’m at the conference in Lisbon and one of the aims is to network so I started chatting to this guy. Just my luck it turns out he had nothing to do with Immunology but was a computer programmer there to make sure all the computers worked properly.
Anyway we were chatting away and I was telling him about my immunodeficieny and he interrupts and says “can I pray for you?” I wish I’d said no but in the shock of it I said “yes”, he followed it up with “can I touch your shoulder whilst I pray?” Major shock still playing a role I said yes again so he put his hand on my shoulder, shut his eyes and started praying out loud for me. Mum was gone getting coffee at this point and couldn’t return soon enough.
I have no problem if people want to pray and turn to religion for help with illness etc and at least he asked me but I so wish I’d said “NO”
After the prayer I told him I wasn’t religious and believed more in science and genetics. He told me I should give God another chance to which I replied “if God can fix my genes and DNA then brilliant”
If prayer gets you through things then brilliant but the next time someone asks me if they can pray for me I will be saying NO.
How Rare? 