Rhonda, and Everyone,

Thanks for sending this. I also received it in my inbox from PDL. It would
really be a miracle if Carolyn was healed.

This is February first, and she is still with us.

We went to see her last week. We left on Wednesday morning, and got back
Saturday evening. It was a fast trip, but a good one. God was with us, and
it was God's will that we go see her. She did immediately recognize me, but
she did not recognize Vernon at first, but she did eventually recognize
him, after a short period of time being with her.

It was wonderful meeting Billie and Tom and Nicole. We loved her dogs,
Rusty and Brandy, Carolyn's two Babies.

It was just like we were suppose to be there. Billie and I even prayed with
Carolyn.

During the day, when Carolyn was at her best, she was teaching classes at
the NFB convention, only in her mind. It was kind of sad, but we did go
along with it.

Please continue to pray for Billie, as Tom is out of town this week, and
she' there with Carolyn by her self when Nicole isn't there.

I'm still praying for a healing for Carolyn. It wouldn't bother me one bit
to send all the things that Billie gave me, including her Voice note back
to her if she were healed.

We also made a stop at Deb Kroll's house on Friday afternoon and we had a
wonderful time with Deb and Gene. Vernon and Gene had a wonderful time
together, also. Deb and I laughed like we've never laughed before. We
stayed over night, and left on Saturday morning. They are two very sweet
and squeezable loving ones.

Thanks for praying. God is so very wonderful!

love and Blessings,
Pat Ferguson
At 05:48 AM 2/1/05, you wrote:
>"But She's Okay Now!"
>by John Fischer
>
>Instant healing, that's what my friend said I performed. Of course he was
>just kidding, but that's what it seemed like to him.
>
>We were talking on the phone and I realized I hadn't told him that a
>co-worker of mine, someone he knew casually, had been undergoing a 9-month
>bout with
>cancer. Ironically, however, I had also just heard days before that after
>numerous chemo treatments, she had been proclaimed clear of cancer. (All
>visible
>signs of the cancer that had infiltrated several areas of her body,
>including her bone marrow, were completely gone.) I hadn't really figured
>out how to
>talk about this to someone who wasn't aware of her ordeal at all, so it came
>out rather oddly.
>
>Something like: "I don't think I ever told you that Sheryl has been fighting
>cancer for some time now."
>
>"Oh, no. I'm so sorry to hear that."
>
>I could sense his emotions starting to wrap around this reality, so as to
>not have him to go too far with unnecessary sympathies, I quickly
>interjected,
>But she's okay now!" There was a pause.
>
>"Wow, that was the quickest healing I've ever heard of," he said laughing.
>"John," he went on, "you just healed someone right in front of me!"
>
>We enjoyed a good laugh over this, but later I got to thinking, there's
>something to learn here. In a way, you could say my friend got the God's eye
>view
>of Sheryl's suffering.
>
>Sheryl's view was quite different. She got the day to day assault on her
>body with anti-cancer treatment and all it's resulting consequences, and she
>got
>the day to day uncertainty as to whether any of this was going to do any
>good. Now this, too, was God's view, because through the Holy Spirit, He
>goes
>through every step of our pain with us. The Holy Spirit even prays for us in
>groans we cannot even utter (Romans 8:26)! But God also has this other view:
>"But she's okay now!" He knew that all along.
>
> From God's point of view our struggles are over that fast. He knows what He'
>s doing. He knows why things happen, even if we never do. He has His
>purposes,
>and that's what faith is all about: believing this when we're stuck in the
>long haul. All along the way God knows the outcome.
>
>And I suppose there is a way you could say this was true for all of us who
>put our trust in God for whatever we are going through, and whatever the
>outcome,
>including even death itself. God sees it completed. His healing is instant.
>His comment is always going to be the same.
>
>"But she's okay now!"
>
>John Fischer is the Senior Writer for Purpose Driven Life Daily Devotionals.
>He resides in Southern California with his wife, Marti and son, Chandler.
>They
>also have two adult children, Christopher and Anne. John is a published
>author and popular speaker.
>
>
>
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