From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #106 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Friday, June 26 2009 Volume 08 : Number 106 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] The State of my prostate [Tom Marcinko ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:43:52 -0700 From: Tom Marcinko Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The State of my prostate Wow. Gil, wishing for the best possible outcome! On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Gil Ray wrote: > Hey all, > Some of you may know this, some of you may not, but I consider you all > friends of the family. > > I hate sending out this mass e-mail but things are moving at a hectic pace > regarding my prostate cancer adventures. My surgery has been scheduled for > July 7th. Should take 3 - 4 hours and the prognosis is great. I have a high > probability of coming out of this in a dandy fashion. I will spend one night > in the hospital. > > I'm expected to miss 6 weeks of work (Thank God!), and our main concern is > how to keep Dexter (our cat) from attacking the catheter tube that will be > in me for probably the longest 2 week so of my life. Dexter loves plastic > tubing. Especially to chew on. > > For those stout of heart, you can read about all of the shenanigans on my > blog. Here's the link to the first installment. There are a few after this > one but I'm sure you can navigate the blog site with no problem. > I love you all. > > I am a bit stressed, but Stacey, myself, the doctors and my family are all > convinced that the outcome will be a great one. > Here's the blog link - http://pobuck.blogspot.com/2009/06/predicament.html > > The coolest thing is the robot that will be assisting my surgeon. It's > called the "da vinci". You can check it out here: > http://www.davinciprostatectomy.com/index.aspx > > I'm a perfect candidate for this machine due to my age, my health and my > weight (or lack of..) > > It's gonna work out well. > Love, > Gil > - -- http://www.linkedin.com/in/tommarcinko http://clarionwest.org/events/writeathon/2009 http://tomaq.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/TomMarcinko http://www.new.facebook.com/tom.marcinko http://blip.fm/the_night_manager ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:18:30 -0700 From: Andrew Hamlin Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The State of my prostate Thinking of you, Gil. As I'm sure everyone else is. For once words fail me (but check the .sig), Andy 1. Look inside Your teacher is within you, look not forth. Mind that which is pure in you to guide you to God. Mind the Light, that all may be refreshed one in another, and all in One. 2. Identify the Light Now this is the Light which you are lighted withall, which shows you when you do wrong; and you know with that when you have wronged anyone, and broken promise, and told a thing that is not so, there is something riseth in you that is a witness against you, and that is the Light. But oh, then did I see my troubles, trials and temptations more than ever I had done! As the Light appeared, all appeared that is out of the Light, darkness, death, temptations, the unrighteous, the ungodly; all was manifest and seen in the light. 3. Let the light show you yourself Mind the pure Light of God in you, which shows your sin and evil, and how you have spent your time; and shows you how your minds go forth. As the Light opens and exercises thy conscience, it will let thee see invisible things, which are clearly seen by that which is invisible in thee. That which is invisible is the Light within thee, which he who is invisible has given thee a measure of. That will let thee see thy heart. Therefore all now awake from sleep and see where you are. Let the Light of Jesus Christ, that shines in everyone of your consciences, search you thoroughly. 4. Trace the light to its source The Light which lets man see sin and evil is a perfect Light of God. This which shows you sin and evil is in you, and makes manifest all that you have acted contrary to it. It is the eye that sees the deceit in all its transforming of you and it will let you see. The eye that sees, and the ear that hears that is of the Lord. Ye query, What God really is in himself? My counsel to you is, to stand still in his counsel, namely, his Light in your own consciences, that in that you may be led forth into his life and likeness. Wait for his appearing in his own spirit and power to restore his own image in your hearts. God, as he is really in himself, is beyond all definition of ours at all. 5. Trust the light to show you the alternative That which lets you see your sins, in that stand, and you will see your Saviour. In the Light that shows you all this, stand, neither go to the right hand nor to the left; here patience is exercised, here is thy will subjected, here thou wilt see the mercies of God made manifest in death. For the first step to peace is to stand still in the Light (which discovers things contrary to it) for power and strength to stand against that nature which the Light discovers: for here grace grows, here is God alone glorified and exalted, and the unknown truth, unknown to the world, made manifest. For looking down at sin, and corruption, and distraction, you are swallowed up in it; but looking at the light that discovers them, you will see over them. That will give victory; and you will find grace and strength, and there is the first step to peace. 6. Feel the new life grow He who follows the Light comes to have the Light of life. The Lord hath a Seed that ways, if ye in patience all of you wait, and not matter the weather, the storms, the winds, the hail, the rain, when ye are to sow the seed, nor the rough ground that is to be tilled. For the husbandman waits patiently after the seed is sown. There is a winter before the summer comes. And there must be a great work before the misty heathen be cleared in their understandings (that are so naturally) and the dark air be driven back, and the Prince of life and Light be witnessed. So the Light shineth forth in the Darkness, to visit the Seed shut up therein, and the Light breathes Life into the Seed. 7. See other people in the light Abiding inwardly in the Light, it will let you see one another and the unity one with another. Now, all loving the Light here no self can stand, but it is judged with the Light; and here all are in unity, and here no self-will can arise, no mastery; but all that is judged out. 8. See the world in the light This Light, which is of God, lets thee see all the works of the world, and draws thee out of the worships of the world, and keeps thee in the fear of God. 9. Learn to love in the light I stood up again in the eternal power of God and stretched out my arms amongst them all, and said again with a loud voice, "Strike again, here is my arms and my head and my cheeks" and I was in the love of God to them all that had persecuted me. "Here is gospel for thee, here is my hair and here is my cheeks and here are my shoulders", and turned them to him, and the Truth came so over him that he grew loving. - --from http://www.charlieblackfield.com/light/medits.htm ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:00:57 -0400 From: glenn mcdonald Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The State of my prostate > 4. Trace the light to its source But of course this is how they discovered the cancer in the first place! Anyway, I'm with you, too. With so much goodwill infusing your surgery, and its robot, already, I'll devote my emotional energy to keeping your new tubes free of not-funny-until-WAY-later chewing incidents! glenn ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:18:59 EDT From: JRT456@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The State of my prostate What kind of world is it where everyone's talking about Michael Jackson instead of Gil's prostate? Best thoughts, etc.... **************Shop Popular Dell Laptops now starting at $349! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222031056x1201446063/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.dou bleclick.net%2Fclk%3B215910283%3B38350812%3Ba) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:47:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Gil Ray Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The State of my prostate Thanks, JR. I do appreciate it. - --- On Thu, 6/25/09, JRT456@aol.com wrote: > From: JRT456@aol.com > Subject: Re: [loud-fans] The State of my prostate > To: loud-fans@smoe.org > Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 6:18 PM > What kind of world is it where > everyone's talking about Michael Jackson > instead of Gil's prostate? Best thoughts, etc.... > > > > **************Shop Popular Dell Laptops now starting at > $349! > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222031056x1201446063/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.dou > bleclick.net%2Fclk%3B215910283%3B38350812%3Ba) ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #106 *******************************