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Kate Dreston's avatar

I am so glad to hear of some pain relief for you! I know this is not easy on you or your loved ones. Your point is so important; we have to trust that the Lord is doing what is best for us. I pray you can experience an improved quality of life for however long the Lord allows. And keep writing because it encourages your readers!!!!

Kristy Fitzgerald's avatar

When Mom called me and let me know about the surgery, I immediately started praying. We serve an awesome, awesome God. You are more of an inspiration than you know, Tom because you are real. Coming to the realization that this situation is in God's hands and trusting in that takes great faith. I will continue to pray and believe! Get well soon!

Moe Strausberg's avatar

Thank you Tom

Your essay gladdens my heart. I don't claim to understand Paul's Hellenistic Judaism. I am a Jew and Jesus is my brother. My oncologist gave me two years to live in 2008 and 2025 was the first year since then without an MRI or cystoscopy. Today is the first day of the week and new beginnings for Jews like Jesus and next week is the festival of Queen Esther.

Judaism is unAmerican on the feast of Queen Esther is the one and only day we get drunk as skunks so we can be like Adam and Eve before our disobedience. In his Legends of the Bible Jewish Publication Society 1909 before Thomas Woodrow Wilson's Ministry of Truth; aka the Committee on Public Information. It sure looks like the cartoon your President posted about the Obamas. MTSU is Middle Tennessee State. Tennessee is where my sweetheart was born and where Darwin is considered sinful and Noah is history both can be true or false depending on your point of view in the Divided States of America. I hate the thought of war when a new set of nations can be achieved by simply understanding E Pluribus Unum didn't work south of the Canadian border. Donald Trump has 10% of Canadians on his side and united the 90% who still love America and mourn its passing. I miss Woodie but I still sing his songs in my head while I listen to Mormons sing his Jesus Loving Songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAyKeOtavA4&list=RDnAyKeOtavA4&start_radio=1

https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/committee-on-public-information/

Louis Ginzberg tells us the Jewish understanding of Sodom and Gomorrah and the Great Flood. Legends of the bible is still in print 117 years later and available at the archives until Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA sets the library ablaze. I pray for your success but Jesus needs people like you to help him carry his burden. Stop limping and stop believing in eugenics. Evolution like in the Book of Job is not progress only change. Paul was an American 2000 years ago. That is why my brother weeps.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Judaism/Hellenistic-Judaism-4th-century-bce-2nd-century-ce

https://archive.org/details/legendsofbible0000loui/page/n5/mode/2up

Here in Quebec Healthcare is a human right and MRIs are free and available 24/07/365 we need people to read the MRIs, people we call doctors. We don't care where they come from too many of ours journey south where doctors are upper middle class not civil or servants. The Taliban speak Farsi and pray in Arabic because they are Persians and Shiites. They are not Semites like Abraham and his sons Isaac and Ismael. Before the Crusades began the Crusaders slaughtered all the Jews they could between Moscow and Jerusalem before sending their children to be slaughtered by Saladin a Sunni Arab from Syria and a Kurd.

Live long and Prosper I have much to learn in my dotage. I am almost blind and still autistic and a slow learner. My wiser and older brother is said to have exclaimed the Truth shall set you free. The Samaritans are Israeli Jews who never left Israel but keep the bankers away from the closets where they pray.

https://autismeaspergerquebec.com/

https://www.israelite-samaritans.com/

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Karen Lynn Cannon's avatar

Tom, as Kate said, your writing encourages others, including your dad and I. And as Kristy stated, you are an inspiration to so many people, and yes, more than you know. Even though we are your parents, you still continue to encourage, inspire, and amaze us with your courage, your positive attitude and your love for the Lord. Keep believing, keep fighting, and keep looking to the Lord and we will all keep praying for that miracle for complete healing. â¤ī¸đŸ™đŸ‘†

Stan R. Mitchell's avatar

What a crazy couple of days?! Thanks for the detailed update. So glad that this has helped you with your pain.

I obviously knew you were in the hospital and was worried, but I was too shortsighted to think about the fact that God might be using this as a way to help heal the very thing we were all (partly) praying about.

But man, the hospital scene overcrowding is giving me PTSD of how bad it was with my Dad there at the end, trying to even get him in.

aida flick's avatar

God works in the most incredible ways. 🙏đŸ’Ē