Dealing with Voices

Dealing with Voices

Hello Jacob,

This is David Paul Hacker.

I designed a web site for NAMI and handed it over to your Dad and he greatly improved it.

I have suffered from voices for years.

Recently I have learned to manage my voices so they don’t usually bother me.

The worst they get lately is a voice or two that says “die”.

I also have good voices that tell me they love me. These are voices from heaven.

Here is how I manage my voices: I pray the following every day: (the bible says pray without ceasing).

Jesus, heal me from hearing voices unless it is a voice from heaven that will make me feel better. Heal me from anxiety and my burning feeling. Heal me so I feel excellent. Grant me thy mercy, heal me so I stop suffering, give me peace, wisdom, understanding, give me joy in my heart (“for a joyful heart is good medicine” bible) “ask and you shall are receive” in Jesus name I pray, amen.

I also pray:

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time enjoying one moment at a time, accepting hardships as the pathways to peace, taking as He did this sinful world as it is not as I would have it, trusting that He will make all things right by surrendering to His will that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him in the next. (AA)

I also pray:

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred let me sew love, where there is injury, pardon, where there is doubt, faith, where there is despair, hope, where there is darkness, light, and where there is sadness joy. (AA)

Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our sins as we forgive those that are in debted to us, and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever, amen. (bible)

I also recommend reading the bible for it is
“life...health...washing...healing” (bible)

give me your mailing address and I can send you some nice religious tracts on becoming a Christian.

I also recommend not talking to voices as much as possible. The more you talk with them the more they talk with you.

Take care.

David Paul Hacker

appletester@hotmail.com

Last Updated on 04/08/04 webmaster@namiscc.org

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