The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: One Simple Prayer

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

One Simple Prayer

Cancer. One simple word. It has touched friends and loved ones in my life and most likely you all know someone who is fighting this disease. I've posted this before, but its cure cannot be prayed for often enough.

Please say one simple prayer today asking God to help us find a cure for cancer.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: I lost my Mom to cancer in 1996 & this past June a childhood friend......
Marilyn; September 15, 2009 at 1:55 PM
audrey said...: I am so sorry, Marilyn. Cherish the memories you have of them. I fear many of our Blog friends have lost loved ones from cancer.; September 15, 2009 at 2:16 PM
Anne Huskey-Lockard said...: My mother had breast cancer, a radical mastectomy, was clear about 13-15 years and then Dx'ed with bone cancer, which took her, slowly.
It touches everyone. I don't know of anyone who doesn't have a story to tell.
Would for the day when we DON'T....when it is treatable or gone.
That would be a miracle, yes?

XXOO!!!
Anne....who watches her health closely; September 15, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Marlene said...: It is a hideous disease. I too have lost loved ones and know people presently fighting this disease. It is in my prayers daily.; September 15, 2009 at 3:25 PM
Rikkij said...: Audrey- a bastard it is. And a cruel one, always taking greedily and without discretion. ~rick; September 16, 2009 at 5:41 AM
Rikkij said...: This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.; September 16, 2009 at 5:56 AM

For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

I AM A "SEARCHER"

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves."

~ James Kavanaugh

I am THE LOVERS Tarot Card

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse. THE LOVERS represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made. Originally, this card was just called LOVE. And that's acually more apt than "LOVERS." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that you have or will come across a person, a career, challenge, or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.