SisterInArms

You're welcome! I'm praying for you! Anytime you need one let me know.

Then don't strain your joints further on my account tonight; just be sure that I'm praying for you.

Oh yeah I remember. I'm sorry! *HUG*

I'm good. Why are you horrid???

Could you...explain the significance of your username, by any chance? I know it is some sort of sickness, but I was wondering?

HI! how are you?

I'm fine. Despite the fact that I'll be recovering from surgery tomorrow.

When I'm next with flesh-and-blood fellow Christians, I'll bring you up for prayer with them, too. If God offered to give me one gift, I would ask for the power to heal; but He is extremely, shall we say, frugal with that one.

You mean, who are Eric Liddell and Hudson Taylor? Liddell was a missionary in China before and during World War Two; he was one of many Western civilians whom the Japanese imprisoned. The Japanese didn't kill him, but he died of cancer while in their custody. His early life is depicted in the movie "Chariots of Fire." Hudson Taylor was on that mission field in the 19th century, and made a breakthrough for acceptance by adopting Chinese clothing and speech.

Hey there. Yes, it has been a while. I'm doing alright, getting by. How about yourself?

Oh. Sorry lol. Never seen that abbreviation before. Oh, and I just read about your illness. I'm very sorry to hear that, and I will definitely be praying for you.

Eric Liddell and Hudson Taylor, men of huge faith, both missionaries to China, both died of illness. It infuriates me how the healing-on-demand quacks puff themselves up as "superior in faith" to such heroes as these.

atm? I think you have the wrong person.

And I wish that, with witnesses looking on to prove that the intention was proper, I could give you my shoulder to do your crying ON.

Have you ever heard of Corrie ten-Boom, a Dutch Christian woman who survived a Nazi death camp in World War Two? She had a sister named Betsie, who was a giant of faith, imprisoned with her. Betsie ten-Boom BELIEVED AND CLAIMED IN FAITH that she would survive the war and live on IN EARTHLY LIFE; she stated this belief to Corrie. But she STILL died of illness in that camp. This was NOT because Betsie ten-Boom "didn't believe hard enough;" it was because the sovereign God does not always exempt even His most faithful children from being vulnerable to natural processes.

I continue hoping for the best for you. For there ARE healings. A Christian man I know, for instance, had a deadly brain tumor... and suddenly the tumor just FELL OFF his brain, like the skin falling off a boiled potato.

I'm doing pretty well, how about you? So...if you're new here...how do you like it so far?

No, it isn't too emotional for me to describe, in fact it honors those who went before. Mary was taken slowly by cancer in 2004; Janalee was taken swiftly by a totally unforeseen heart attack just last year. I can tell you that it's even worse for the bereaved spouse to lose one's mate without warning. Mary got to plan her own funeral service. Her Scripture selections included the best line in the Book of Job: "I know that my Redeemer lives."

Healing-on-demand fools do not have a leg to stand on, doctrinally. I am reminded that the prophet Elisha, successor to Elijah, died of a sickness; his closeness to God did not make him immune, AND his being sick did not disqualify him from functioning as a true prophet to his very last hour. In fact, Second Kings attests that Elisha was the only Biblical saint to raise someone else from the dead AFTER he himself had died!

I hope those harassers didn't hover around you too long. They especially annoy me, of course, because I had two wives die of illnesses.

As for the weather, the problem is wind, rain and hail. The first time hail fell on the festival grounds while I was there, I exclaimed, "Gang! Gang! The hail's all here!"

I'm frustrated with the chaos of household moves. Back where I lived in Maryland, I had a rooftop-length ladder; but it seems to have gone poof in the move to Colorado. And now I need it, because I have to get onto my roof and reattach some loosened shingles. This summer has had the worst summer weather I ever saw in Colorado.

Here's a sort of good wish for you (though I still pray for God actually to DO something and heal you): I hope you never come up against the I-have-more-faith-than-you characters who BLAME sick people for being sick, saying it's their fault for "doubting."

Do you remember my saying my sister was in a CFS support network? See if this link offers anything you didn't already know about:

http://www.cfids.org/youth/ylinks.asp

Well then, hi there! I don't know if we've officially met - were you here when I left?