It seems that there were some requests to repost this, so here it is. Wendy > ---------- > From: Tebay, Wendy M > Sent: Monday, August 3, 1998 10:34 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Cc: 'E.S. Tebay'; 'Kirsten Halling' > Subject: Time for Coordinated Mediation > > Well everyone, remember I brought up a little while back the idea of > staging a group meditation/prayer for a cure of PD? I haven't been around > in the last week or two, but I think that if we're gonna do it, we should > give it a try soon, before everyone's completely forgotten about it. We > should, however, give it a few days, so we can ask whomever we can to also > participate, so that we can get as many to join in as possible for the > most effect. For some reason, August 16th popped in my head as I was > writing this. Don't ask me why, but unless anyone has objections to that > date, we'll go for that. With all of the different time zones that may be > involved, it would probably be too much of a pain to choose a specific > time, and besides, people may be doing different things. My suggestion is > for whomever is going to participate to do their meditation either near > dawn or dusk (both times of which, according to some beliefs, are when the > boundaries between worlds are most blurred and thus prayers would most > likely get through). Whether one subscribes to this or not, I figure > it'd make it easy for most people to do it either when they first get up > that day, or just before going to bed, whichever is easier. I think just > having them all occur near the same time/day will be good enough. Another > thing I'd like to suggest, which certainly isn't required (none of this > is) is to also get perhaps your families, churches, synagogues, temples, > or your dog or whatever floats your boat, to also join in on that day. > Email everyone you know and who already knows that some of us PWPer's are > wacky, and ask them to do it also. Ya never know. It certainly can't > hurt to send some positive energy toward the solution of this problem. If > nothing else, it'll give us the feeling that we're at least DOING > something, rather than just sitting here being victims. I for one do not > like the victim role that's been pushed on me. I've got alot of big > plans for things I want to accomplish, whether I get beyond this or not, > and I'd certainly rather do it without PD. > > Oh, just fyi. I was watching that show with Richard and Lindsay Roberts > (Something Good Tonight) recently, that I mentioned here on the list > before, and I thought I'd just note a couple of recent healings that > people have called/written in to tell them about (just to perhaps give us > the belief that it can happen for us too, before we do this thing). > Positive reinforcement. One guy supposedly wrote in to tell them about a > healing that he had from MS. He said that he had been bed-ridden for > something like 16 years, and from watching their show (and using his > faith) he found himself cured and able to walk (I don't know if this was > instantaneously or gradual). The mother of a little boy also wrote in to > tell how he had been diagnosed with muscular dystrophy and/or something > else as well, and he supposedly is also getting better now gradually. > She said that when the doctors did a follow-up test to verify his MD, it > came out negative. > > I'm only relating these (approximately) as I heard them. One can believe > them or not. Personally, I'd like not only to believe them, but also > believe that the same can happen for us. (I'd rather believe that than to > give in to the gloom & doom naysayers - I'm no victim!). > > Anyway, as a closing thought, I wrote this poem after watching the above > show one night, and figured it would be appropriate for our planned "Day > of Miracles": (or maybe we should call it "PD Day", - where "PD" in this > case could mean, "Positive D__n Day" or whatever! > > > A WORD OF KNOWLEDGE > > > My Faith > Your Faith > Individually > Powerful > Together > Invinsible > Moving > Mountains > With > Tiny > Seeds. > > > ************ > > Let's Do It!! > > Wendy Tebay >