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Hey everyone. I've been sick recently and on bedrest since wednesday.
This thread is NOT meant to once again start up a religious debate, and if that is your intention, please refrain from posting here.
The point of this thread is to ask my fellow Christians on this board to send a prayer for me. And also, if you feel comfortable, to post something you would like to be prayed for.
I know I could always use prayers, and so can you guys. So, my prayer request would be my health as of late. What's your's?
One in Christ,
Rome
Hi Rome,
I am SO sorry you are not feeling well and hope it is not too serious, hope you get better soon and that it is only a short term illness. I will definitely say a prayer that your health improves soon.
As for myself, perhaps a prayer that my persistent problems with insomnia go away.
All the best, and praying for you,
David
I will pray for your health since I've been witness to many things I would consider
to be miracles.
What does prayer do for people that physicians can't? Well it
may help them develop an understanding of what's going on,
especially when their disease is painful, troubling, or unexpected. It may improve their quality of life by providing
a feeling of well-being. Like meditation, it may aid people to let go a bit."
By reducing stress, praying might also have a physical effect.
Stress generates high levels of the hormone cortisol, which
suppresses the body's capacity to fight infection. By lowering
cortisol, prayer might boost immunity to disease.
In fact, Dr. Herbert Benson, an associate professor of medicine
at Harvard Medical School and director of the Mind and Body
Medical Institute in Boston, argues that regular prayer, along
with general stress management, can reduce visits to doctors
and other health professionals by 50 percent.
So yes, i will pray that your health improves.
Take Care
so sorry you're not feeling well, what is your problem. glad to know there are other christians like myself with long hair. please respond to my personal e-mail with your e-mail and site name so we can keep in touch regularly.
mikeh
Well, I am an atheist, so you won´t get any prayers. However, I do hope for your well being and that you get well soon. No time for sickness, got too much hair to grow! :)
Me, too, Rome. I am also atheist, but regardless of our theological disagreements, I can honestly say that I hope you feel better (and get better) soon and I sincerely hope that you find all the comfort and peace during your bout of illness that your faith will allow.
Wishing you all the best (from a former Born-Again),
Shawn (Mr. Crow)
(http://www.myspace.com/manlocks) - Mr.Crow's photo archive of growing hair
"Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need."
The above quote was written by a woman named Mary baker Eddy, who discovered & founded Christian Science (whose church headquarters are in Boston, MA); but more importantly, wrote a book in the late 19th century called, "Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures". Although I personally no longer neither attend that church, nor claim to be a "practicing Christian Scientist" (strict adherants rarely if ever go to doctors or take medications, whereas I do); I still value its teachings, and find that the writings of Mrs. Eddy still hold comfort, inspiration, and have a sense of logic and common sense that I still find easy to grasp onto, as well as ring of truth to unquestionably believe in. The very first chapter in her book, for example , is titled, "Prayer", --- and is filled with tremendous insight on the subject, has always expanded my views to help me consider what it really means to pray, and digs deeply into both the myths and validity of effective prayer. She wrote that book never intending to start a religion, so it is really meant for peoples of all demominations and faiths, --- Christian, or "otherwise"...
Again, I no longer attend nor am a member of a Christian Science church, so I am not trying to "sell" anyone here on the religion. I simply am advocating to you, or to anyone else reading this reply who might be interested, that the book I mentioned above is well worth reading, --- especially if you care to explore some fresh insight and original thinking on a very old and controversial topic: Christian prayer & healing. In fact, at the end of this book are included approximately 100 pages of testimonies of healing, --- healings that have occurred from simply reading that book.
My best to you, Rome, --- regardless of whether or not you take up my recommendation --- for a speedy and complete recovery!
- Ken in San Francisco
I used to watch these videos from Dr. Kent Hovind (who is a very conservative Christian and hates long hair and gays) that he said a grown up Christian should learn to eat the meat and spit out the bones. I do subscribe to some of his preaching but not all, and whatever you do make sure it's the right thing, that it won't cause you to hurt someone else or something. If you're believing something wrong or doing something wrong, it will become painfully obvious. God does not abandon his people.
hi there Rome,
hope your illness isn't anything serious,I will be keeping you in my thoughts and prayers.
I am not a Christian, but I do wish you the best. Get well soon.
Hey there,
You have my prayer. Someone showed me this interesting link today. Check it out. It's pretty shocking and pretty long.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=264868249898683262&q=Paul+Washer&hl=en
Of course, Prayers are with you for a speedy recovery...
Way down the board, you had asked some help with cropping your update photo......lost some resolution, but still a great photo, great hair, great look !!
I think you look sort of "Keith Urban-ish".
Take Care, my friend
Walter White Tail
I'm an atheist, but wish you the best :)
I still don't understand that some people really believe that there is something like a devine being. That is total crap. What has "the good lord" ever done for you. Sorry if I don't answer to your question to not response to your none religious part,think about this: there is no greater atheist than me,on the other hand I am a great pacificist and 90% of all the wars ever started in the world, are religion-related. Drop religion and there is 90% less trouble. So cut the bullshit about send me your prayers, blablabla. It won't help, dude. You have to believe in only one thing: believe in yourself. By the way, your hair has great potential
Let's see, since you don't understand you say it isn't so. You also claim to be a great pacifist, yet attack someone who is sick and reaching out just because you don't share their beliefs. Seems the total crap you mention is in your post.
Rome, as another Christian you have my prayers. I'll also offer one for those who have to attack others to espouse their own lack of beliefs.
Big George
Great answer, Big George. Rome, I've been praying for you and will continue to do so. We know it works!!!
Prayer isnt about changing God's mind about what He should do on earth. Prayer is about a reverance to God. Prayers lift up a person, and it is a tool of the body of Christ.
Prayers reveal things to PEOPLE, not necessarily change God's mind so to speak, however, I have personally witnessed healings if you will that have baffled doctors. I'd love to talk to people about them if they care to hear about them.
Anyways, thanks again
~Rome
Feel free to IM or email, its always nice to hear from another Christian. :)
~Rome
Patrick,
Whenever someone speaks or acts with the type of vehemence you have displayed here, it is usually a pretty strong indicator of personal insecurity, either in general, or in regards to the issue in question (in this case, "religion"). That, or you're just trolling for a flame war. I'll assume the former, that you are, more or less, an insecure person who tends to respond to ideas outside of your personal box in a fearful, hateful, and/or disrespectful manner. In the words of Thomas Jefferson, "Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances." In failing to do so, Patrick, you have yielded the advantage of cool-headedness to the very people you apparently oppose, though why you feel it necessary to oppose another, based on his or her personally-held beliefs, I cannot fathom. I, myself, am not a "religious" person; that is, I do not prescribe to any single school of conventional religious ideology, although I do consider myself a spiritual man. That said, I also have it within myself to extend well-wishes to ANY good person. It appears to me that some serious, dedicated introspection on your part is in order.
Rome,
You have my very best wishes for a full and speedy recovery.
If you ever feel like you would like to talk, or debate or whatever, feel free to email me at rome.sc@gmail.com
or you can IM me at lookcloser1827
Im kind of disapointed at your reaction to my post, and whether you like it or not, it motivates me to pray for YOU, and so I have. Anyways, feel free to write me.
God Bless you,
Rome
You have my prayers, Rome
Rome,
It has been almost 5 days since you shared your concerns with us. I too wish for your speedy recovery and for long term good health, given the reality of our mortality.
However, it would be helpful for me if I knew the condition which concerns you for I do not know what interventions would be most appropriate unless I understood your condition.
I grew up considering myself a Christian, since the people around me who were most concerned about the welbeing of their fellows and sisters used that self description. While I still endeavor to follow the teaching of Jesus, I have given up the term "Christian" for I now associate it with Jerry Falwell, James Dodson,Pat Robertson, Timothy LaHaye, James Kennedy and I could name others who I think are perverse beyond belief.
Nor do I believe that the glorious creator of the universe interferes with the natural order based on the number of votes she receives in a poll asking to help one person in contrast with another. Rather I think the creator of the universe has designed a system which can yield the maximum health for all if we seek to understand the laws of nature through scientific reserach and and apply them to the benefit of all.
I am always amazed when I read of a horrible chash between a semi- and a car, on US I 26, near my nome, northbound between Charleston and Tennessee, and someone say that "God saved me," and I think, "Why did God not prevent the death of the other three people in that accident?" This does not compute. It reduces the creator to a slot machine, one who plays favourites. I cannot buy that. I do not believe that the dead, failed to say the magical formula, nor failed to light the right number of candels, nor were significantly less righteous than the one who thanks God for saveing her.
There is a tragic randomness in reality. The child who died because a brick fell from a chimney after an earthquake in central California where no other deaths ccurred, which hit her cradle, was not determined by the author of the creation. Bill Gates, did not become one of the richest persons of earth because he worked harder and was brighter and more righteous than any one else. One found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time and the other found himself in the right place at the right time.
Given this randomness in life, it seems that our ethical task should not be to gloat, but rather to compensate by giving more opportunity for those who are by accident in bad circumstances, and by demanding more for those who have benefitted by cirumstantial accident, so that we could build a more equitable community of mutual support in this hazardous world, in which the hazards become more severe, not because the religious idiots think it is a sign of end times, but because population growth puts more people in hazardous circumstances.
Rome, I will not pray for you. I do wish the best for you. But I pray only for greater wisdom, greater knowledge, greater compassion for everyone, and for a world which seeks justice and mercy.
If you will share with us your particular problem, I will do everything I can to be of assistance to you if I have the ability and knowledge to do so, and my deepest faith is that the creator wills your health no more and no less than every other being on earth.
Sinerely,
Caledonian.