I found out on Friday that my wife's mom has a brain tumor. So if any of you want to send some good creo corpus / creo mentem energy down to Argentina to a sweet old lady you've never met, I'd appreciate it.
I'm not sure why I'm reaching out here, except maybe that if a bunch of people from around the world throw a quick healing thought into the air, well, ya never know....
It doesn't matter if we don't know you or your lady's mom. I certainly understand you'd feel the need to share your burden somewhat, even with strangers, so don't feel bad about it, and feel free to do it again if you need to.
Your lady's mom's got all the good wishes I can send in the air, I hope some of these will reach her.
Sigh... Good luck, really, and spirit, too
Eric, I can't send her quick healing - but I can send both her, your wife and you warm thoughts, best wishes and most of all the hope that things will take a turn for the better.
When I find myself confounded with tough realities I always find solace in - a movie of all things (!)- the Shawshank Redemption and even in the shadow of a terrible feeling of powerlessness I remind myself that "Remember Red, hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies. "
I hope for you and your family; that hope will carry you through.
If I may Eric, I'll share with you something that might help.
My own father had prostate cancer and now has bone cancer. He was told by a friend of his to consult with Father Peter Rookey, a Catholic priest that is famous around the world for healing miracles especially involving cancer.
When my father spoke to him over the phone, Father Peter warned him before he blessed him that it was powerful stuff. My Dad fell to his knees at his words. My mother later spoke to him and asked him if he knew of her two cousins, one was a nun and another a brother. Father Peter knew them both, had in fact just had dinner with them the night before and recited their phone numbers by heart.
I'll leave you the website to check out if you please. I'm as big a skeptic in my own way of things like chain letters and miracle cures as anyone. My father's bone cancer though is now treatable through hormone treatments and he's actually enjoying a cruise right now. Here is the website, please check it out if you like, and God bless.
I, too, am encouraging my wife to hope, and when she doesn't have the strength I pick up the slack.
It's good to feel all of your strength folks, it helps. Reading your thoughts really made me feel better.
Isn't it strange that your words are even more effective than those of my friends? Perhaps because your words are simply pure gifts, due to the fact that we're all basically strangers.
Firth, my heart goes out to you and your wife and family. If it is of any comfort I can recount the experience of the son of friends of my parents who was struck many years ago by a severe case of Hodgkins Disease (Lymphatic Cancer) which reached critical mass of about 75-80% of his body IIRC, when suddenly, overnight, all the prayers and positive reinforcement he had been receiving from countless channels all kicked in apparently. The next morning when the nurse came for his blood sample, the hospital discovered that it had disappeared entirely from his body.