Posted on 03/27/2007 6:55:25 AM PDT by Pyro7480
Breaking on CNN!
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You are 100% correct. That was my observation also.
See post 501!
To Tone,
God bless ya and you know we're storming heaven. Heard on the way in from Long Island (grrrr, impartial hearing).
Remember, Dad, Dottie, the Snow-wife and the Snowflakes are gonna need you to be strong.
Now let's kick some cancer *ss.
Saying my prayers for Tony and his family.
Prayers up for Tony...that's a horrid disease...may our Lord heal his body!!
Prayers going up right now.
BUMP
Everything to God in prayer.
zarf, God has demonstrated that he doesn't stop people from dying in horrible ways. He didn't lift a finger for Jessica Lunsford, who was actually about as Christian of a kid as you could find-- not that being a Christian should be required to be spared from dying the way she did. It's hard to say what God actually does in this life other than destroy things (flooding the earth, slaughtering Israelite enemies and their families, etc.). God does give people the Holy Spirit as a gift in this life, though, even though that's not really a tangible gift.
Job said "Shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil [at the hand of God]?" God is unable to only do good. He does good sometimes, and evil sometimes (even if it's by allowing Satan to do evil-- it's all really the same thing because the buck stops with God).
He wasn't even able to stop a war from happening in heaven ("And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels..."), so you shouldn't have such high expectations for God. By the way, God didn't even see fit to give the traitor in his midst and his respective army the "death penalty" (and the US has always viewed treason as cause for death).
Also, you could say that any answering of prayer by God is in violation to total free will.
Verses like "Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you" and "If you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your Heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?" don't refer to tangible things, but mostly things once you're dead. God isn't a genie who grants wishes.
That is not the Article I was referring to, but it is another good article that gives credence to the optimistic research being done using Adult stem cell and other non ESCR.
My prayer for Tony, that the good Lord will help him and his family. That He will save him for he is such a good man and a wonderful example for all. This world is sorely lacking in good and decent people to look up to. Please have mercy, Lord.
Howlin, what's the name of the drug your mom took... you remember?
Tony,
Know that you are not alone as you face this.
God Bless you and your family
Very very sad ... one of our greatest communicators and loyal soldiers.
Mike Emmanuel said that when the press was told, there was hardly a dry eye in the place.
I would think you could send cards to the WH .. there's a separate prayer thread........
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1807510/posts
God, please be with Tony.
Thanks Deep Blue, I also went to Edwards site and left a message of prayer and great hopes.
Prayer List Ping
I have St. Peregrine, St. Rita and Our Lady's 52 day... started yesterday with the Annunciation. I have to send his name to Lourdes and Fatima after I set up Masses.
Prayer List Ping trussell.
MrLee, fmail me your brother's name, so I can include him and your family in my prayers.
She never took it, Ali; the day before her surgery was scheduled, she had a heart attack and they couldn't do the surgery, so she couldn't have the therapy; I have been trying to remember the name of the drug since I posted that; I do remember they said it was by mouth and that she wouldn't even lose her hair.
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