Tebay, Wendy M wrote:
>
> I'm sure Michael J. Fox has his good days and his bad ones, just like the
> rest of us, and he may have been putting on a bit of a positive spin on his
> situation, due to his public image, etc., but I tend to applaud and agree
> with his general view of his illness and how he's dealing with it.  He
> sounds pretty realistic, but yet still hopeful, and I believe that to be
> key.  I haven't personally set any specific age at which I expect to be
> healed, but I know it's coming, whether science helps me achieve, or I
> manage to do it by brute mental power and a touch of grace.  As I've said
> many times, I will never accept the negative espoused outcome for pd.  I
> simply refuse, period.  Not that it won't change, and perhaps worsen, but
> I'll never agree with the "relentlessly progressive" diagnosis which I've
> heard many times.  I know one thing for sure, if I accept that outcome as my
> own, then it will definitely come true, no doubt about  it.  If I refuse to
> accept it, then I at least have half a chance of beating it eventually,
> especially if I can keep my health up otherwise in the meantime.
>
> I also like his view that PD has brought him many blessings, and that he
> wouldn't trade his situation, nor does he consider himself a victim.  One
> can only be a victim,  if one permits it to happen.  I may end up disabled
> at some point, but I'm no victim.  This physical body is only a small part
> of who I really am, it doesn't define me completely.  I believe that part of
> each of us  that really matters is eternal anyway.
>
> So, before I go, I thought I'd share this poem I recently wrote, which is
> based on an idea my Dad had to explain reality, and the nature of the
> "miraculous".
>
> Wendy Tebay
> --------------------------
>
> Nth DIMENSION
>
> Picture this
> A stick figure
> On a piece of paper
> With a box drawn around him
> A two-dimensional Being
> Bound by four walls
>
> Now picture yourself
> A Being existing
> In four dimensions
> Capable of walking
> Without difficulty
> Right over these walls
>
> Because you exist
> At a 'higher' level
> These flat boundaries
> Are simply illusion
> While to the stick figure
> They bind his universe
>
> Picture this
> You as a Being
> Existing in four dimensions
> Your known universe
> Seemingly bound
> By both space & time
>
> Now picture this
> Yet another Being
> Perhaps God Himself
> Who exists at an
> Even 'higher' level
> Than yourself
>
> This Being who exists
> In the Nth dimension
> Is free to wander
> Across and over
> All of the boundaries
> Which you can perceive
>
> Now imagine this
> What if you too
> Were in actuality
> A Being also existing
> In N dimensions
> Rather than in four only?
>
> Would that perhaps
> Change forever
> Your former concepts
> Of your perceived reality
> And your definition
> Of what is possible?
>
> Well, imagine no more
> For as you were made
> In God's image
> If you will believe
> And see with God's eyes
> So shall you be also
>
> An infinite, unbounded
> And eternal Being
> Walking alongside God
> Over walls and borders
> Defying and challenging
> The very nature of reality
>
> Free then to create
> A world without limits
> Where miracles are now
> Totally commonplace
> And the commonplace
> Has become magical
>
> This knowledge you've gained
> Is not yours alone
> Rather it is to be shared
> With those still bound
> By self-imposed limits
> Unaware of their true nature
>
> *copyright  Wendy Tebay
>
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> Perhaps we are, in physical form, 4-D projections of N-dimensional beings,
> who are truly infinite and eternal.  After all, aren't we made in God's
> image?  In my view then, if God probably doesn't have PD, then I don't think
> that I'm meant to either, and the more I realize my true nature (i.e.,
> god-like), the more the PD will disappear, as it will become irrelevant and
> the lessons it has to teach will no longer be needed.   It's worth
> WENDY  TEBAY   Thanks for sharing your thoughts and your dad with me.Some how they hit   proper spot at the proper  time. Cheers Craig 60/58/57.5.