Hey Phil,
         I really appreciate this testimony.  I'm finding myself 
having to begin with a medical issue of my own that has really caught 
me off guard.  When I went in for my annual check up about three 
weeks ago, my blood pressure was a little high.  I was asked to keep 
coming in for checks and, basically, it is bounsing 
around.  Yesterday, I had another exam and it was really high, to the 
point of scary.  As they were asking me questions, I lead a pretty 
healthy life, I don't drink soft drinks, or much junk food and I walk 
about three miles a day,  so there isn't much I can do, but take more 
blood tests and continue to work on losing weight, which I hope will 
help, but now, it looks like I will have to be using a blood pressure 
medication.  I've always dreaded the day when I would have to start 
taking drugs to stay, "normal," whatever that is.  Since I deal with 
a lot of older people who seem to practically take drug cocktales, it 
doesn't look pleasant.  I had always figured that that day, of drugs, 
was a long way off for me.  Thanks for the reminder of Jesus.  Of 
course, I know that, but it is nice to here it out loud, from someone else.
Kathy  whose hoping that I won't need to be on it for long


At 01:13 AM 6/17/2006, you wrote:
>Virgie,
>
>That's great.  Years ago I suddenly became ill.  I felt like I was getting
>the stomach flue.  I finally went into the bathroom to up chuck and there on
>my knees, starting to heave, as it were, I called out loudly, "Jesus!"  That
>was the only thing I could speak at that second.  I suddenly felt my stomach
>settle and nothing happened, that is, I didn't vomit.  I went back out of my
>office to work and for an hour, a voice in my thoughts, sort of, kept
>saying, it won't last.  I kept rebuking that voice and claiming I was healed
>by the stripes of Jesus.  Within an hour, I never had any more symptoms.  No
>one can tell me that just the name of Jesus doesn't work.  Sure, I have been
>sick hundreds of times since that day, not to mention even things in recent
>weeks with my back.  I still seek Jesus in each situation, though, and maybe
>tomorrow, I will post to the list what happened concerning my back pain when
>I began to amend Wednesday.  It is quite miraculous.  Something spiritually
>unusual happened to me during these weeks of perpetual back pain that I'll
>tell about later.
>
>Phil.