WHat about the cancer cures? Don't wait until you need it....

Knowing means living...
http://davesnewsblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/27/cancer-cures/

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Phoebe…. A very brave and wonderful young person, that I knew when she was a little child. http://phoebewilding.wordpress.com/2013/02/ God answered prayer! Not in the way I sought; Not in the way that I had thought He ought! But in His own good way and I could see, He answered in the fashion best for me. And I was glad that I had such a share In His parental love and gracious care, That thus He answered prayer. God answered prayer! But not in my brief hour: I looked to see the fruit ere yet the flower Had shed its gales of sweetness o’er my path! But I have learned that slowest blossoms yield The choicest fruit; and so I leave them there Upon the boughs, assured that they will bear In time my answered prayer! God answered prayer! So sweetly that I stand Amid the blessing of His wondrous hand, And marvel at the miracle I see, The fashion that His love has wrought for me, Pray on for the impossible and dare, Upon thy banner this brave motto bear, “My Father answers prayer.” Seeing, Feeling and Understanding February 19, 2013 Seeing….. Seeing what people rush to hide Seeing clearly what’s on the inside Seeing through people’s fake highs Seeing the inner turmoil and sighs Seeing things as they truly are Seeing under the radar Feeling….. Feeling the loss, pain and shame Feeling the heat in taking the blame Feeling life slipping through your fingers Feeling the scar that forever lingers Feeling the agony of failing Feeling the torture of not knowing Understanding….. Understanding the confusion Understanding the false illusions Understanding the far away gaze Understanding the defiant faze Understanding the inner reasoning Understanding the deepest feelings If we could see,feel and understand What’s in the heart of each man How would we treat Those we so recently meet Who act like they’re in a cage Or those who take center stage If we could see people as we see ourselves Reacting differently to the stuff on the shelves Learning to look past the first impressions Learning someone’s true confessions Would we so quickly jump to conclusions Filling our head with false delusions If we could give people a chance Instead of judging at a first glance We would see them in a new light Without biasness blinding our sight We would then come to realize The best friends hidden in disguise -Phoebe Wilding-The Moment Everything Changed February 19, 2013 The moment I found out I got leukemia it was like my life was ripped away from me. Before I was relatively happy, although life wasn’t perfect, it made sense and I felt like I was finally getting to a place where I could figure out what I wanted. There was a lot of confusion for me at the time due to the fact that what I had been doing for a year I didn’t really need to do anymore and I was trying to figure out what to do next. It wasn’t perfect of course, but it was life and all around it was good. But from one moment to the next it was gone, everything that I wanted to do, all my hopes and dreams, everything that seemed to be finally within reach was gone and I was left with the uncertain feeling that too soon I would also be gone and without really having done anything to be proud of in this life. With each day that passed things kind of just seemed to go from bad to worse with each check up and test it was another day of bad news, another day of trying to be strong and failing. After my first round of chemo treatment which wasn’t successful in ridding my bone marrow of the leukemic cells, we moved to the states. I had been in Mexico a year and I was very close the people I lived with and knew well there. Just moving in itself was painful, not knowing what the future held for me, not knowing if I would ever see them again. When I got to San Antonio I learned that I couldn’t be treated without some sort of insurance and at that moment I lost control. It was like everything had been taken away and then I was slapped in the face for even hoping things could get better. I asked the Lord why, why he had allowed this to happen, why he was doing this to me, why he was making it so hard. I told him I hated him for doing this to me when I tried so hard to please him and do what he asked of me. After the crying and begging for a reason, an answer ended. He spoke to me, it wasn’t an audible voice, there were no life altering signs, just a calm, loving tender, voice in my heart. The voice said. I have been with you from the beginning, from the time you were born I cared for you, protected you, supplied your needs and your wants. I have been with you at every step blessing your life and guiding you and giving you what was always best for you. You praised me when I came through for you, and throughout your life you learn that I never take anything away from you without giving you something better. Everything that I have ever allowed to happen to you was for your best and what you ultimately needed at the time, the good and the bad, the hopes fulfilled and the hopes disappointed. So it is with this, this is for your best; I have allowed this because in the end you will be thankful you went through this. I know you don’t understand the reasons now and you feel abandoned and alone, yet you are not. I’m here giving you the grace for each day. Just as I have asked you to trust me before so I ask you to trust me again. Trust me that I am in control and I will bring to pass my perfect plan. After that I had a peace. As most of you know I did get into the hospital and with that came another round of chemo and a secondary infection that almost killed me. Chemo sucked, ICU was hell, and recovery was long, painful and annoying. Yet with every moment I was given what I needed to get through it, and right now I’m at a point where I just have to wait and see. Things are as uncertain as ever and I really don’t know what going to happen next, what my future holds or how long it will be. But the one thing I do know is that everything is going to work out, everything is going to end just fine one way or another. But most importantly I will be given the grace for what I have to face and the strength to go through it and in the end I will be thankful to have gone through this and will know the reason why and it all will be worth it. The Reason to Why February 19, 2013 In these days, for some reason we are so scared of death and try to do everything we can to fight it, to delay it, to postpone the inevitable. There are many reasons for why we do this, I guess the main one would be we’re afraid to leave this life behind, we’re afraid to leave our loved ones, our friends, our family, the people we care about. We are so attached to this life, and there are so many things that we don’t know about the next life that we’re scared to let go. If we have children, we want to spend as much time with them as we can and we worry about what will happen to them when we are gone. We worry if they will be ok, if they will move on from our passing, if they will accept what has happened and move forward with their lives. For me the question was this: should I hang on and fight with everything within me for that one more breath, for that one more moment on this earth, and that maybe by me fighting, it will encourage someone else to not give up, to keep going in spite of what life throws at them, to keep hanging on and to keep hoping that things will end differently than what l have been told? Or should I let go, and trust that everything will be ok without me. To trust that whatever reason this is happening for, it’s a good one. To trust that everything that I have gone through has not been in vain, to trust that my life has reason and purpose and that even though I’m here for a shorter time than a lot of people that I did accomplish something good, that I did my part to make the world a better place for those who knew me, that no matter what happens there is a reason, a purpose, a plan. By choosing this was I giving up? Was I failing myself and family and friends and even the Lord by not being willing to continue fighting? Was there something more that I needed to do? Was I in fact missing out on something awesome and wonderful if I would just keep going, keep trying and never let go of the fact of where there is life there is hope and as long as I keep fighting things always have the potential to get better. All these thoughts and more went through my mind as tried to figure out what I should do.. As I lay in bed, these thoughts and more running through my head, there came a peace that told me it was time, that I had completed what I was placed on earth for, a peace that said that as I let go He would take care of those that I would have to leave behind for now. A peace that told me as I took this final step I would enter into the last phase of my life and complete the reason why He saved me from ICU and brought me here. As you know, I decided to trust what I felt and let go, to enjoy what I have left and trust the Lord for the rest. All of these questions that ran through my mind are still there and I honestly don’t know the answer to most of them and I guess I won’t till I pass over to the Other Side. I’m writing this because I know a lot of you have questions about what I have decided to do and a lot of you feel that I should have chosen differently and I wanted to write and explain this to you, so that you would know that my decision wasn’t based on what happened to me the last time I went through chemo and although it has been a factor in my deciding it hasn’t been the main reason, or the deciding factor. Through everything in my life, I have learned to trust the voice in my heart that has lead me each step of the way, through all the things I’ve been through, through all the good and bad choices I’ve made. The Lord has been the one to carry me through everything that I have been through before and will yet through everything that I will face over these last couple months. As I have trusted Him before, so must I trust Him again and hold to the reality that He has never failed me before and He won’t fail me now. Decision February 19, 2013 I’m sitting here trying to figure out what say, and coming up completely blank. I guess writing this out as a Facebook status makes it just that more real, but you need to know and so here it goes. On Jan 11th i went in for a bone marrow test, to see how my DNA was doing, to see if the abnormalities were still there and what the chances were of the Leukemia coming back. I was told to wait 3 weeks for the results. 11 days later my doctor called me and asked me to come in. At the appointment the doctor told me that not only was the Leukemia back in my bone marrow, but also that it was active. The options he gave me were: a bone marrow transplant which had a 50% chance of success and me surviving up to 5 years. Or I could continue as I am and not do any form of treatment. That would only give me a few months at most. The thing is that once the Leukemia comes back after it’s been in remission, it is very had to get rid of because it has become resistant to the chemo. Considering everything I’ve been through due to chemo, plus the lack of guarantee that the bone marrow will be successful, I have decided to continue as i have been without treatment and enjoy what I have left. I know some of you would like me to keep trying chemo and go for the transplant and do everything i can to fight this, but in praying about it and seeing what i have the faith for, I would prefer to spend my last days in peace, and enjoy life to the best of my ability. It freaks me out just as much as it is probably scaring you, and it’s hard for me to believe that it has gotten to the point that I’m actually sitting here typing this. As hard as it is, i hope you can support me in this so that the few months that i do have, will be peaceful and happy. Besides I’m going to Heaven, and what’s better than that? I love you and am so thankful for your support of me over these last 8 months, it has meant more to me then you will know. I love you!

How can we do this? Do you know?

Does anyone have an idea how we can do this?
Last night these thoughts came to me and I want to ask you for your help and thoughts:
Can´t we all see the clouds gathering on the horizon, some being even near and above?
They will break eventually, and we can hear already the thunder in some places. We have also heard from the seers, different faiths and predictions that a great storm is to be expected sooner or later, a lot depending on peoples decisions and prayers.
Now my big question and concern lately has been, what can we do to prepare? What needs to be done to be ready and able to survive these times? When a storm is coming we take an umbrella when we go out, we fasten the ropes and make sure things can´t fly away, fall, and or be damaged by the wind and rains. A friend told me how they had in Germany such a storm recently that the big living room windows were bending and she was afraid that they would break!
Yesterday I watched the movie “Josef” about the amazing life of this patriarch and servant of God in good and bad times. He was used of God to save many lives from famine by interpreting the dreams of Pharaoh correctly which gave God’s warning and prepared him for what was to come, collecting during the good years so they had enough during the bad ones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wQrQk0MODg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLk_WAP3h9E&feature=related
What does this mean for us? How can we prepare? What do we know of what is to come?
“Surely the Lord God will do nothing but He reveals his secrets unto His servants the prophets.” The Bible tells us. Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon was shown the future in a dream and Daniel the prophet interpreted it. (Daniel chapter 2). So God warns and shows in advance, so we can be prepared if we ask Him how.
In the prophecies of Sarah Hoffmann it talks about visions of the future with people who are prepared!
Let it be us…. Does anyone have an idea how we can do this?
http://www.moneyteachers.org/Hoffman.Prophecy.htm
“….The air seemed to be filled with smoke as many buildings and cities burned and no one put them out. As I looked upon the scene of chaos, destruction and smoke, I noticed that there were these little pockets of light scattered all over the United States. There were, I would guess, about twenty or thirty of them. I noticed that most of these places of light were in the Western part of the United States, with only three or four in the East.
These places of light seemed to shine through the darkness and caught my attention and so I concentrated on them, asking, “what are these things?”
I could then see that they were people who had gathered together and they were on their knees and they were praying. The light was coming from them and I understood that it represented their goodness and love. I understood that they had gathered together for safety and that they cared more for each other than for themselves. Some of the groups were small, with only a hundred people or so, but in other groups there were what seemed several thousand.
I realized that somehow many, if not most of these cities of light had been established just before the disease attack and that they were very organized. It was like they had known what was coming and had prepared for it. I didn’t see who or what had organized them, but I saw many people struggling to get to them with nothing but what they could carry.
These cities of light had food and were sharing their food with those who joined them in their groups. There was peace and safety in the groups. They were living in tents, all kinds of tents, many of which were just blankets, covering poles. I noticed that the gangs left these groups alone, choosing to pick on easier targets and unprotected people. They also preyed on the people who were trying to get to the cities of light. Many people in these cities of light had guns to defend themselves with and so the gangs left them alone but it seemed that the gangs just didn’t want to come against them.”
There are many more prophecies like from Mitar Tarabich, Nostradamus etc.
http://www.futurerevealed.com/future/texts-date-2.htm

We can´t prepare by ignoring the clouds and warnings.

Our best preparation is to be close to and led by God, and to be under His protection.
The safest place is in the will of God.
“See, I am with you always, even until the end of the world.” Jesus said.

Be the one

Be The One: Serve
By John Maxwell, June 1, 2010
In life, it's not what happens to you, but what happens in you and through you that counts. When adversity visits your life, you have two choices: to be a victim or to be a victor. Victims allow circumstances to get them down, and they spend their lives asking others to redress the grievances life has dealt them. Victims are needy and demand to be served. Victors, on the other hand, rise above the challenges they encounter. They rebound from life's hardships with newfound strength, and they use their strength in service of those around them.
Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon was born in 1860 to a wealthy family in Savannah, Georgia. Far from the typical Southern belle, Juliette was willful and tomboyish, always in search of adventure. She was the type of person never to be caught sitting still; she enjoyed trying new things and traveling new places.
In her mid-twenties, the first of a series of misfortunes struck Juliette. Suffering from chronic earaches, she sought medical care, but doctors mistreated her. As a consequence, Juliette lost the majority of her hearing in one ear. The following year, Juliette was married, but as she and the groom exited the ceremony a grain of rice, tossed by a well-wisher, lodged in her good ear. While attempting to remove the grain, a doctor punctured her eardrum, and Juliette lost hearing in her second ear.
For someone who enjoyed an active lifestyle, deafness could have been devastating, but Juliette persevered. She moved to her husband's estate in England where she became a favorite in social circles. Her humor and vivacity made her a sought-after guest and celebrated hostess.
However, Juliette soon crossed paths with tragedy again. Her husband's alcohol abuse and infidelity contributed to the gradual decline of their relationship, and in the middle of divorce proceedings, Juliette's husband died from a stroke. To make matters worse, he bequeathed his substantial estate to his mistress rather than giving it to Juliette.
Having lost her hearing, her husband, and her home, you would have expected Juliette to feel bitter and victimized. However, at this very point in her life, she chose to serve. Somehow, she moved past her own tragic circumstances to see the good she could do for others.
Having befriended Sir Robin Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, Juliette became intrigued by the Girl Guides, Britain's sister organization to the Boy Scouts. The Girl Guides program awakened passion in Juliette, reminding her of youthful adventures from days gone by. With the help of Sir Baden-Powell, Juliette returned to the United States with a notion to launch the Girl Scouts.
Over the next 15 years, Juliette devoted her life to pioneering the Girl Scouts of the USA. She founded its inaugural troop, authored its bylaws and handbooks, and solicited its startup funds. Thanks to her tireless recruiting and relentless campaigning, the Girl Scouts program blossomed. The organization was such a source of joy for Juliette that, when diagnosed with cancer, she hid the illness as long as possible in order to continue advancing the scouting movement. While she never had children of her own, by the time of her death Juliette had an "adopted family" of more than 160,000 girl scouts. Her legacy lives on today in the 3.4 million young ladies who belong to local Girl Scout troops in America.
Study may shed light on when it's appropriate to remove wisdom teeth
By Laura Hambleton, The Washington Post, June 1, 2010
Bethesda oral surgeon David Ross studied the X-ray of my 17-year-old daughter's mouth. She had 28 fully grown adult teeth, with long roots, looking pretty straight after a few years of orthodontia. In her upper jaw, though, two errant teeth floated above the rest out of alignment, lurking in the shadows.
"These teeth are completely impacted," said Ross, pointing to where they hid in her upper jaw, to explain his recommendation to pull them. "In this position, they probably aren't going to drop down."
Or they might. And if they do, my daughter would have two perfectly functioning molars at the back of her upper jaw.
But if the teeth don't come through or push through only part way, they might cause problems down the road. Ross showed us the X-ray of a 75-year-old man who left in place a wisdom tooth that was now growing sideways, surrounded by a cyst. The man's jawbone could be in jeopardy, and so the choice was clear: The tooth needed to come out.
For my daughter and me, the decision was not so straightforward. We had to weigh the risks of possibly unnecessary surgery against the advantage of taking the teeth out then, while their roots were less formed and easier to pull, in the hope that she would avoid problems--ranging from infection and damage to adjacent teeth to cysts or even tumors--that might, or might not, happen in the future.
This is the dilemma for those whose wisdom teeth aren't causing them problems.
Dentists often recommend that young people get those teeth pulled, particularly before they head off to college for the first time. Yet, as I discovered when trying to decide what to do with my daughter's two errant teeth, there just aren't any etched-in-stone, must-do rules, good scientific studies or even helpful statistics to indicate when it is reasonable to pull a wisdom tooth and when you can leave it.
A controversial 2007 article in the American Journal of Public Health by retired dentist Jay Friedman likened pulling an asymptomatic wisdom tooth to removing a healthy appendix just to prevent the future possibility of appendicitis. "If there's no evidence to support a surgical procedure, then it should not be done," he said. But others say that there aren't enough data to support that conclusion--or any other at this point.
The National Institutes of Health hopes to fill in some of these statistical and clinical gaps through a study it launched a year ago that is following 750 dental patients in five northwestern states. The study will look at the reasons given by general dentists when they recommend either keeping or pulling third molars and what the patients then decide to do. It will follow those patients for two years after their decision to assess rates of complications, according to Greg Huang, principal investigator for the study and head of the Department of Orthodontics at University of Washington School of Dentistry.
"There isn't any good information about the life cycle of third molars," said Donald DeNucci, a periodontist with NIH'S National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research in Bethesda. "In Great Britain, they have been looking at this closer. They state that if a wisdom tooth has a cavity or is causing swelling of the gum or has periodontal issues, remove it. Then things move into the gray area, where it's not so clear. In Great Britain, the National Health Service now says if impacted wisdom teeth are not causing problems, don't remove them." DeNucci said the NIH study will help oral surgeons and dentists in this country make informed decisions about wisdom teeth based on scientific evidence.
Most people are born with four wisdom teeth, or third molars, which ordinarily begin to come into the mouth between ages 17 and 25. "They are called wisdom teeth, I suppose, because they come in during the late teens and 20s, when a man begins to possess some wisdom," said DeNucci.
Wisdom teeth can become impacted--or trapped in the jawbone, unable to grow above the gum--for a variety of reasons, most commonly for a lack of space or because another tooth is in the way. Or the teeth grow in a skewed manner, sideways in the gum or at a slant toward adjacent teeth.
Chevy Chase dentist Steven Kahan, who has been practicing for 40 years, said: "It is the kind of thing where all of us make a somewhat educated guess. You can't always predict how a tooth will grow. I have one wisdom tooth locked in my upper arch, and it's been there forever. The advice of the oral surgeon when I was in dental school was to leave it alone. I've never had a problem."
Yet it is clear that there can be problems.
"Sometimes a sac forms around a wisdom tooth," said Washington dentist Richard Steinlen, who estimates he has cared for about 4,000 patients a year during his 28-year career. "Mouths are more cyst-prone than other parts of the body. Lots of cysts form around wisdom teeth."
Partially erupted wisdom teeth also create troubles because they are hard to clean, he said. As a result, food can get lodged in the back of the mouth and create a perfect environment for a bacterial infection called pericoronitis, which can cause pressure, pain and swelling. (Antibiotics are often prescribed to treat it.) In addition, partially erupted wisdom teeth are prone to tooth decay.
Thomas Dodson, a professor of oral surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and author of an April study in the British journal Clinical Evidence that reviewed other studies on impacted wisdom teeth, found that 25 percent of patients who had wisdom teeth without symptoms had periodontal disease on those teeth.
According to Dodson, this shows that the absence of symptoms does not mean the absence of disease. As a result, he said, patients who keep their wisdom teeth should be monitored periodically to assess the health of those teeth.
Often when Dodson tells patients with asymptomatic wisdom teeth that "there are no data" to help them decide whether to pull the teeth, "60 percent elect extraction; 40 percent choose to retain the wisdom teeth and schedule a two-year follow-up visit with me," he said.
Dodson noted that whatever the patient decides, the surgery has become easier.
Still, pulling a wisdom tooth is surgery, and surgery can lead to problems. Wisdom teeth in the upper jaw can be very close to sinuses, which can get perforated during surgery. The lower teeth, meanwhile, lie very close to several nerves; damaging them can cause temporary or even permanent numbness in the lips, tongue or chin.
"But the most common complication is infection," Dodson said, and "that happens one in 20 times. Then there can be postoperative bleeding, nerve injury and a host of rare complications, such as a possible break in the jaw. Dry socket [which occurs when the blood clot that is left after a tooth is pulled dislodges and the bone is exposed] and infection can be as high as one in 20."

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Seeing the Unseen

By Matt Guerino, March 01, 2010

"So we do not lose heart. Though our outer nature is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."--2 Corinthians 4:16-18

Early in the musical Les Miserables, ex-convict Jean Valjean is taken in by a kind priest to be fed and housed for the night. Desperate and poor, Valjean gets up in the middle of the night to steal some of the priest's silverware. The next day he is apprehended by the police, who suspect him of theft. They bring Valjean before the priest and ask him if Valjean in fact stole from him.

At this point the priest faces a clear choice. He can identify Valjean as a thief and receive justice. Or he can choose the path of grace and refuse to press charges. He chooses the latter, lying to cover the theft by telling the police that the stolen property is actually a gift he gave to Valjean. This single act of grace becomes a defining moment for Valjean, and completely alters the trajectory of his life.

This poignant episode is a defining moment for the audience as well. We sympathize with the old man whose kindness is rewarded only with theft. When the police drag the apprehended criminal before him, we feel the pull toward justice. And so we are nearly as surprised as Valjean is when the priest chooses grace instead. What motivates someone to choose loss over gain? To choose compassion over vengeance? To choose grace over justice?

In a word, vision. The priest views the same circumstances that we do, but he views them through a different set of glasses, so to speak. He doesn't focus on the immediate situation, but instead he sees the bigger picture. The priest knows that he himself is the recipient of God's grace, and that heaven is his real home. Thus he is willing to part with the wealth he can see, because he is firmly convinced of his eternal home even though he cannot see it.

This is the perspective the Bible describes in 2 Corinthians 4:16-18. There the Scriptures tell us we can live life in one of two ways. We can either choose to focus on the "seen," that is the here-and-now. Or we can focus on the "unseen," the reality of our eternal home in heaven. When we focus on the latter, the things of this world begin to lose their grip on our hearts--even good things like fairness, security, and getting what's rightfully ours. We gradually come to care less about things like comfort and security, and we find ourselves free to love people generously and even sacrificially, the way God does.

How clear is the unseen reality of heaven to you? It may be that by focusing on the reality of heaven, you'll end up altering the trajectory of someone else's life on earth.

The choice is yours.