Next week I will be over at a man's home.  This man use to be used by God in a powerful way, but since his car accident he is now mentally challenged and in a wheel chair.  I am believing him to be healed.  So, for those of you who want agree with me in prayer, then pray for me and him.  And for the mockers.  Please hold off your mocking until later, it hinders the flow.  There may be plentley of time to mock after next week.  If he is healed  I will try to get documentation for it to be posted on the website.  Pray for a miracle.  The difference between a miracle and a healing is that a miracle is instant, a healing may take time even years to come to pass.  A sign and a wonder is things like diamonds appearing from out of the sky etc...  A creactive miracle is something like someone's arm or leg grows back.

Miracles I have seen:  Arthritis Healed in an instant, toe nail grow back where there was not nail in less than 30 seconds, hypoglocemia various illness like virous, colds, etc...  People delievered from drugs, alcohol, sexual abuse, inner healing, uclean spirits cast out etc...

Healings: Cancer, arthritis, hypoglocemia, etc...

Signs And Wonders:  Oil appearing on my hands, Gold Dust appearing during prayer in meetings and in private, Diamonds appearing in meetings, Manna appearing during meetings, Angel Feathers appearing during meetings, numerous encounters with the Kingdom Of God and angels too many to count..., being tansported some where else in the Spirit and then it being confirmed I was there in the natural.  Entire parks or small cities having an encoutner with God at the same time.

one suave folk

While I really don't want to appear like some religious kook, miracle do happen, and I have witnessed some myself.  Things that are just jaw-dropping, unexplainable...miracles.

I guess it's the nature of them that they're so amazing that they are literally incredible for someone who hasn't witnessed or experienced one first hand.  So I completely understand the scepticism.

Just wanted to lend my voice to Kev's prayer, as someone who remains an avowed sceptic, but knows that miracles happen.

Life is a miracle and it is difficult to get through a day of it without acknowledging such.  But what troubles me about Kevin's "intervention" is the magical mystery aspect of acting as a mini-Christ on earth or something.  There is something in this attempt to supercede the learned medical profession with his extra-special faith and prayer and belief that I find troubling. 

Quiet prayer.  Fine.  Beautiful. Caring too. 

Hanging around severely damaged humans, offering 'hope' through your special God-human intervention, and detecting gold dust and oil -- all this augurs poorly from my perspective.  Are you certain it wasn't golden snake oil?

Were I a member of the family of any of these unfortunate 'crippled' folks, I'd be outraged at the charlatans at the door. 

Go home and pray.  The Greek humanists had a special word for this type of behavior.  Hubris.

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

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"We cannot allow a mine shaft gap"

Hubris is often the outward symptom but not always. What underlies it all, as Aldous Huxley has argued, is humanity's 'deep-seated urge to self-transcendance', more often than not leading into 'a search for some bogus liberation ... Grace-substitutes, into which and by means of which men and women have tried to escape from the tormenting consciousness of being merely themselves'.

If more of us prayed in the manner you describe, far from the alleviation of human suffering, the result would be widespread infrapersonal and antisocial irresponsibility. It's happened before.
 

Beauty is momentary in the mind -
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal.
The body dies; the body's beauty lives.
So evenings die, in their green going,
A wave, interminably flowing.
So gardens die, their meek breath scenting
the cowl of winter, done repenting.
So maidens die, to the auroral
Celebration of a maiden's choral.
Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings
Of those white elders; but, escaping,
Left only Death's ironic scraping.
Now in its immortality, it plays
On the clear viol of her memory,
And makes a constant sacrement of praise.

('Peter Quince at the Clavier' by Wallace Stevens)

Deep seated urge to self-transcendence, hmm? I must have absorbed that concept back in my Huxley years. (BTW, last week was the 43rd anniversary of the death of Aldous Huxley -- same day as the JFK assassiantion. Cancer of the tongue. Los Angeles. 11/22/63)

I would have to come down on the Freshly Squeezed column on this one even while confessing I do pray.

Have I ever prayed that the lame would walk? That the blind would see? That the feeble would... uh, score 1600 on their SATs?

Nope.

As I said before, prayer to me is about humility, gratitude, acceptance, dignity, fortitude, serenity and asking for guidance in separating wheat from the chaff -- internal stuff like that. It is not about putting in requests for miracle cures, which is then sorted through, assessed and processed into the "YEA" file, if earnest enough or the "NAY" file if insufficient. I'm also enough of a humanist to know that prayer didn't create the polio vaccine even if the human scientists laboring away also happened to pray. And, you know, the lord does help those... as they say.

But carry on with those prayers for miraculous healing of the gravely ill, those of you who would. But always remember, "One hour with Debra helped more than years of therapy."

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Beauty is momentary in the mind -
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal.
The body dies; the body's beauty lives.
So evenings die, in their green going,
A wave, interminably flowing.
So gardens die, their meek breath scenting
the cowl of winter, done repenting.
So maidens die, to the auroral
Celebration of a maiden's choral.
Susanna's music touched the bawdy strings
Of those white elders; but, escaping,
Left only Death's ironic scraping.
Now in its immortality, it plays
On the clear viol of her memory,
And makes a constant sacrement of praise.

('Peter Quince at the Clavier' by Wallace Stevens)

Sunday I was watching CSPAN book TV.  They had three women on a panel -- one Muslim, one Jew and one Christian.  They were all New Yorkers who came together after 9/11.  The Christian met the Muslim at a bus stop.  The Muslim woman had the idea to put together a children's book on the three faiths. Well, anyway, the interesting comment one of them made stayed with me:

The opposite of faith is not doubt.

The opposite of faith is certainty.

Not sure how it applies to this discussion but I've been giving it some thought the past few days.

Like it?  I did.

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin

Susan

That makes sense.  If you know something for certain, then there's no faith involved.

Faith can be used to bridge the gap of the unknown also.  So something can be known, unknown, or believed in faith.  (geez I'm starting to sound like Rumsfield over here...)

...and they sit there in their corporate offices acting all corporatey...

Susan 

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin