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Barb, Need a prayer? - You got it! Along that line of thought, my parents just left today after visiting for a week. My dad brought along with him the book, "Saved by the Light." I read it while they were here. It's about a guy who has now died twice and survived, and has had near-death experiences (NDE's) both times. The first time he died of a lightening strike while talking on the phone. Anyway, his experiences have been some of the most detailed of anyone, and a couple of the things he related I found particularly interesting. The first, which is relevant to prayer, was that when this Being of Light brought him into this "city" that was also filled with light, he could see all of the prayers coming from those still down on earth, arriving in the city, and kinda moving around on their own beams of light. I guess all of our prayers go to one place, and they seem to take on their own reality, so to speak, and become visible. Makes sense then, that if ya have alot of people praying at once for the same thing, it would get noticed. Another interesting aspect of his experience was the life review he was given both times, and also some predictions that he was given the first time by these Beings of Light. Not all of the predictions were written in stone, they could be changed, but so far something like 94 of 115 of them have happened. Anyway, it sounds like he was a real bully growing up, and then as an adult, worked as an assassin in the military, and later transported weapons to other countries for the CIA or whatever. All that changed after his first death experience, due both to the visions he was shown, a mission he was given (to set up what would essentially be like holistic treatment centers where people could go and destress, get massages, etc), and also due to a life review that they gave him, which wasn't very pleasant for him, consideriing all of the things that he had done. The key thing about his life review was that he experienced it from the perspective of the people (and their families, etc) that he had hurt. He also made a point to mention that anyone who also ever hurts an animal during their lifetime, will also get to feel the animal's pain during their review. The point of the life review was in part to show him how every action one made, not only affected another, but rippled along to many others too. On the other hand, the Being told him that the world was made a better place, not necessarily by big, elaborate good deeds, but thru lots of many small ones over a lifetime. He also said it made a difference in the review whether the person he had hurt deserved it (e.g., he was defending himself) or whether he had just hurt them for no real reason. Just thought I'd bring this up, as we recently had our prayer day. I wonder what it would've been like to have seen hopefully thousands of prayers for a cure for pd arriving all in one day! (Altho' whats a day up there? Who knows?) His story may also give some comfort to those with pd faced with the prospect of having a "fatal" disease (altho' as I've said before, I have issue with that designation). Death, as portrayed in his book, and by many other accounts which I've read, is not something to be feared. It is simply a transition to another form, and in fact, many of those who have had NDE's actually look forward to when they'll be able to return. Kinda takes the edge off of or some of the power away from pd. I like that. Anything that I can steal back from pd, I will! Wendy Tebay