I am sorry, but I have to say something about this. I have heard of
this, and I'd really like to know if there was a statistical
significance between the improvment of people that were prayed for and
those what were not. I truly don't believe in this!!! BTW, I think that
if we want to help other people, actions are much more effective!
Nell Reynolds wrote:
Three or four years ago I read about some big research group that decided to
research the efficacy of prayers. Yeah, right, I thought. But this
research group asked people and groups all over the world to pray to their
own god(s) in their own way to help various people. They enlisted Christian
preachers of all denominations to ask for prayers from the pulpit, nuns and
monks from various convents and monasteries, Buddhist temples, Muslim
religious leaders, rabbis, and people from religions I had never heard of.
The article said they conducted this in the standard double-blind method,
different religions for various people not of their faith and in their
faith, and a control group that got no prayer at all. No names were
included, just requests for "a person (no gender or age) in (location)
suffering from (affliction)." In every case, from every source of prayer,
the target of the prayers reported improvement that was confirmed by
diagnosis.
Prayer does help.
Nell in Austin
" Ellison" wrote in message
...
Howdy!
Welcome home, RZ!
SHE'S BAAACK!!
Roberta & I "did" Fort Worth lightly the other day,
finished w/ a glass of cold tea and a lonnnnng talk.
Met Roberta's lovely older daughter;
she does quilt shops, too. g
Now let's talk Roberta into Houston 20-0-4 !
Ragmop/Sandy--leaving the charming thoughts from the original post
"Roberta Zollner" wrote in message
...
Glad you're mending!
No need to thank us, really. Remember we're a network by our own
volition.
What affects you affects me, both the good stuff and the bad. And that
quote-I-can't-remember about how shared joy multiplies, while shared
trouble
reduces? It's perfectly true. We bask in the light of our friends, even
the
cyber-light. I know for a fact that it's not even necessary to tell you
my
troubles to feel a calming presence.
Reading the ng every day keeps all of you in my thoughts, just as I am
sure
to be in all of yours. Thanks!
Roberta in D
"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
...
Im going to do a quick explanation with no gory details about my
operation
so everyone knows that I didnt get sent through a wringer. I had the
type
of
gall bladder removal they used to do, and still do sometimes, instead
of
the
easier to recover from laparoscopic type they prefer to do. So,
instead
of
a
set of tiny cuts I have a larger one, stapled shut, and two drain
sites.
The
other part of the operation was a strange one where they ran a camera
and
other gizmos to the site of the stones via the mouth and got some out
of
the
ducts. The reason my gall bladder needed this more invasive set of
procedures was simply that there were so many stones and because they
were
large. Coctail onion size they said.
While in the hospital I thought about what might and could happen
while
in
surgery. I guess its inevitable to face ones own mortality, especially
when
we know we would leave precious little ones behind, but when I read
the
messages Mike printed and brought in from all of you I realized two
things.
Many of you had lived through these procedures and are happy for
having
done
so. Second, I was not going to entertain the notion of leaving. Dying
was
not an option. I learned too that love can float around me and cradle
me
in
times of fear. I felt very little. I dont know, or care what diety or
enti
ty
you sent your prayers towards. I still feel them. They help me heal,
because
a body cant help but heal better when it feels happy, valued and
loved.
hmm...people have accused me of being effusive. Ill add maudlin to
that
list. Its your own problem if it seems over the top. In fact.. let me
know
if its over the top and Ill privately email you with MORE!
buwahahahahahaha!!!
hey, I dont LIKE whats happened to me... it hurts, but dang, you guys
know
how to do that love thing so nicely.
My individual thanks will come as I have time and energy. I have a lot
of
them to do. I will do them with joy. Its so odd to feel so wonderfully
happy.
my love to you
Diana
I should probably let this sit overnight to edit later when Im not so
high..
but.. i dont know.. is there a reason why I should not be this open
with
my
feelings?
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--
Dr. Quilter
Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens