tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273966180335113029.post85666921926112101..comments2023-11-02T01:59:44.599-07:00Comments on The WhiteStone Name Seeker: The Ones He Didn't HealWhiteStoneNameSeekerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13817511811745085749noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273966180335113029.post-44176557518662336022008-06-26T09:33:00.000-07:002008-06-26T09:33:00.000-07:00Bless you for your prayers and your offering. Plea...Bless you for your prayers and your offering. Please be assured of my love and prayers. It's great how, through our faith, we can all share very intimately in each other's lives, without it being an intrusion. Maybe this is an earthly foretaste of what it means to share in the life of the Trinity?<BR/><BR/>On a more down to earth note, I’m sure I don’t need to tell you about the NHS, but keep on top of things where you and yours are concerned. Never have I come across an organisation where one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing. If they did, then Stephen (and goodness knows how many others) would still be here.<BR/><BR/>By way of something to cheer you up, would you like to join our altar-railers group?<BR/><BR/>http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=30935060928<BR/><BR/>PxPJAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02592149546038164628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273966180335113029.post-52716513794488978542008-06-26T08:40:00.000-07:002008-06-26T08:40:00.000-07:00PhilipThank You! I am getting my head around all t...Philip<BR/>Thank You! I am getting my head around all this and God in His goodness has offered me some good reading. I accidently came across a book by Dom Benedict on Christedem Awake-all about healing and suffering. It has proved very helpful to me.<BR/>I am trying to be more proactive and also offer my daily pain for others-you, Stephen's eternal soul, Deb (UKOK) and other friends and family. The fact that God can use this as prayer is a great comfort.<BR/>Meanwhile, as the NHS docs seem just rude and out of their depth I'm off to a chiropractor and other places in search of answers.<BR/>No where weird! Just 'other' than NHS.<BR/>God bless you my friends here.WhiteStoneNameSeekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13817511811745085749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273966180335113029.post-85455102492518175372008-06-26T03:13:00.000-07:002008-06-26T03:13:00.000-07:00What can I say... I've gone Italiano! ;-)What can I say... I've gone Italiano! ;-)PJAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02592149546038164628noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273966180335113029.post-52349640834503422992008-06-26T00:30:00.000-07:002008-06-26T00:30:00.000-07:00sisto and not sixto? :-Dsisto and not sixto? :-Dgemoftheoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05521207668262592414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273966180335113029.post-36729688530446281882008-06-24T08:52:00.000-07:002008-06-24T08:52:00.000-07:00PS I shall be "moving" blogs soon. A watershed app...PS I shall be "moving" blogs soon. A watershed appears to have been reached and it feels right for a change of direction. (Plus, it will also be an opportunity for me to undo that embarrassing Latin spelling mistake in my URL!! LOL<BR/><BR/>New URL is <BR/>http://pontesisto.blogspot.com/Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09272728729243811310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273966180335113029.post-3149061974081759322008-06-24T08:45:00.000-07:002008-06-24T08:45:00.000-07:00My love and prayers for you... I love the way Pope...My love and prayers for you... <BR/><BR/>I love the way Pope Benedict highlights how “faith” and “hope” are almost interchangeable in much of the Scriptures. When we are truly saved in hope, by God’s grace, we become invincible as we take upon ourselves the spiritual armour of God. S Stephen, who at his martyrdom, was totally distracted by the vision of the Trinity. Clothed in his spiritual armour, I doubt that he felt a single stone. Now, that’s hope!<BR/><BR/>You know my recent story. Many thought me foolish because, at the time, I claimed that faith could move mountains and that by faith, Stephen would be healed. In various places, I documented my certainty in this. Of course, Stephen died and I was not without a few “I told you so” (Christian) commentators, who felt that I was being naive to even think that prayer (faith and hope) could cure someone. However, I don’t regret this and looking back, I can see how God was working through the situation. Although hard for his loved ones to accept, the Lord wanted Stephen to come home and in doing so, the “testimony” of Stephen’s death was imbued with the grace of conversion for those who had ears and eyes and hearts to apprehend it. It’s taken me a while, but by God’s grace, little by little, I am able to understand more of what God wants me to do. Siena’s death, following on so soon afterwards, emphasised the need for hope and faith in God. (As S Ambrose once wrote (something like this, as I can’t dig up the exact quote), our relationships are not ours to keep, selfishly; rather, they are short-term gifts from God, on loan. We should not mourn their absence, but celebrate the fact that they have been part of our lives in assurance that, one day, they will be again.)<BR/><BR/>That said, the suffering has been transferred and I find now that I must seek healing for myself, too. The mental burden is far greater than I would ever have imagined. However, the more the mental pain, the greater the grace that I receive. Funnily enough, I was chatting to a mutual friend of ours about something similar last week. We discussed what Paul says in 2 Cor 12:9 “My grace is sufficient for thee; for power is made perfect in infirmity. Gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may dwell in me.” I think that’s where I find myself. I dare say, I’m not alone in this, either. Like our Lord’s agony in the Garden, I want to ask God to take it away. But then, there’s that linguistic clue in the word “agony”, which in its Greek form, “agonia” is more about preparation for a difficult task, specifically athletes preparing for a long and arduous race. I guess, therefore, that our agonia is our own preparation for that spiritual race which, while difficult will ultimately lead to the prize. As Paul writes to Timothy in his second letter, “… I have run the race to the finish; I have kept the faith; all there is to come now is the crown of righteousness reserved for me which the Lord…will give to me on that day”. However, we can only hope for that prize with preparation, with agonia. It’s probably a different experience for all of us; but, nonetheless, it exists for all of us.<BR/><BR/>I’ve been blessed in that I’ve visited Lourdes many times and I shall pray that the opportunity will present itself for you to offer yourself at this shrine of great mercy. Once again, however, the difficult message keeps presenting itself. As I’m sure you know, our Lady said that she could not promise happiness in this life, but we were to look to the eternal happiness of the next. The many sufferings of S Bernadette are proof of this. It’s as if the more beloved of God we are, the more suffering, or proving, or agonia we must endure. If we can run that race to the finish, what glory we must give to God; how he must look down on us and see not men and women, but the image of his Son as we live through and offer our sufferings in the faith and hope which Christ exhibited in the Garden.<BR/><BR/>In the meantime, have you thought about visiting “England’s Nazareth”. It’s a place that recalls the Incarnation. There can be no better place to recall how God became a man to take upon himself the burden of humanity for our sake. If you can go (and I shouldn’t really say this) try and stay at the Anglican shrine as the facilities, in my humble opinion, are better.<BR/><BR/>You are in my prayers, daily.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09272728729243811310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273966180335113029.post-5768740763191336822008-06-24T01:04:00.000-07:002008-06-24T01:04:00.000-07:00Thank you so much ladies. It has been incredibly d...Thank you so much ladies. It has been incredibly difficult recently and I am heartely sick of it.<BR/>God blessWhiteStoneNameSeekerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13817511811745085749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273966180335113029.post-23547770888840236882008-06-22T22:00:00.000-07:002008-06-22T22:00:00.000-07:00((HUGS)) WSNS...Prayers for you, too, for healing ...((HUGS)) WSNS...<BR/><BR/>Prayers for you, too, for healing if that's God's will for you, and for serenity if it is not. (I'm pulling for the former!)<BR/><BR/>:)<BR/>KitKithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01016763543666450600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6273966180335113029.post-42107898196308999172008-06-21T13:41:00.000-07:002008-06-21T13:41:00.000-07:00May God comfort you. My mother prayed for healing...May God comfort you. My mother prayed for healing from cancer, and was not physically relieved of the disease BUT in praying she found she was spiritually healed enough to perserver as best she could.<BR/><BR/>If it's any small help to you, the Mother of St. Therese was not physically cured after my prayer by her and on her behalf. IIRC correctly she wrote to a relative something along the lines of not feeling she would be physically cured, because she knew that the Lord knew she did not need a physical miracle to believe in Him. I *might* have gotten the details of that wrong, but that's how I remember it.<BR/><BR/>So why does God heal some physically and not others? Who knows. But I do know if you pray to cope for the strength required to deal with whatever God sends you - you always do get that!<BR/><BR/>God Bless....gemoftheoceanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05521207668262592414noreply@blogger.com