[Magdalen] A prayer, please

[Judy Fleener]

Welcome Arthur.  You have my prayers.  I am a long time member here, but
posting less often in the last year.  I have a geodesic dome for sale on a
small lake in Michigan.  You could pray for its sale.

I am married to an Episcopal priest who at 85 still works every Sunday.  We
have 4 sons, the oldest is chancellor of our diocese.  This past week-end
we visited a grandson in Chicago.  He is newly enrolled at Roosevelt
University and a baseball player.  RU's urban campus is a huge culture
shock for him.  Classes and baseball will be the comfortable parts of his
life.

We also visited my favorite Episcopal church ever, St. Paul and the
Redeemer.  For their 10 am service they had to add extra seating and ran
out of bulletins.  There had been a shooting/killing on the usually quiet
corner where the church is.  The rector preached a phenomenal sermon.

http://www.sp-r.org/download_file/view_inline/1588/399/

There was great music from diverse cultures, African drumming at the gospel
procession; familiar hymn tunes Ton-Y-Botel and Tidings; Leaning on the
Everlasting Arms; chanted psalm.  All well done.  The service included lots
of announcements.  No one appeared to be in a hurry to leave.

As we drove back to Michigan I said to Bill (my husband) "What would it
take to be there every Sunday?"  Too bad we can't afford a pied a terre in
Chicago.

Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan



On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Ginga Wilder <gingawilder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Prayers for your health and that your anxiety will abate.
>
> I look forward to your further introduction.
>
> I am Ginga Wilder and I have lived in Summerville, SC ny entire life,
> except for 18 months in Colorado when my husband was in the Army.  I am a
> 68 y.o.. Episcopalian who stayed with The Episcopal Church when the bishop,
> most clergy and parishioners broke with TEC to form a nondenominational
> stand alone church.  My friends and I (7 strong) vowed to reorganize an
> Episcopal parish in Summerville.   We did just that.  That was nearly 3
> years ago in October. I am senior warden of this congregation and serve on
> the Standing Committee of the reorganized diocese (The Episcopal Church in
> SC).  Yesterday morning, in our brand new church space behing a CPA office,
> we worshipped with 86 Episcopalians.  Other than having enormous love and
> committment to following Jesus in the Episcopal tradition, I am married to
> John for 47 years, have 3 adult children in NC and DE, 4 grandchildren, and
> still work a little as a marriage and family therapist.  Our sons live in
> Charlotte, one with Hearst Media and the other as a professor of Psychology
> at Wingate University.  Our daughter lives in DE and is an Episcopal
> priest.  I am a yellow dog Democrat and enjoy following politics.  I do not
> enjoy arguing about anything and will quickly drop out of such
> conversations.
>
> Welcome, Arthur.  Again, you have my prayers.
>
> Ging
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 2:02 AM, Esther Williamson <momohl1 at cox.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Welcome, Arthur. Prayers for calm acceptance.   I had polio as a child
> > which left me, among other things, with a withered arm which hangs out of
> > the socket. Several years ago I had a routine chest exam. When the nurse
> > called me at home to give me the results of the x-ray she asked if I
> knew I
> > had a dislocated shoulder. Duh!
> >
> > Esther
> >
> >
> > On 8/30/2015 9:39 PM, Arthur Laurent wrote:
> >
> >> Latest blood work brought a value that was a bit high for my PCP (though
> >> it's been bouncing around those high normal numbers for five or so
> years).
> >> So off to the nephrologist I went.
> >>
> >> He ordered a bunch of tests. In the first test (about 45 minutes into a
> >> renal sonogram beginning at 7 this morning), the resident asked me, "Has
> >> anyone ever told you you don't have a right kidney?"  I laughed,
> because it
> >> reminded me of the time my cardiologist asked, "Has anyone ever told you
> >> you have atrial fibrillation?
> >>
> >> (Why would anyone other than a specialist tell you information like
> that?)
> >>
> >> Funny I hadn't known that. I was in the Service for 7 years, and nobody
> >> ever mentioned a missing kidney to me. I would have thought Navy doctors
> >> would have been more thorough.
> >>
> >> It freaked me out, (maybe it was the dark lights and the cold slimy
> >> gel...) though I'm a lot more calm now. Since I've apparently never had
> a
> >> right kidney, I'll refine what I'm doing/eating now to minimize stress
> of
> >> my kidney. And I suppose I shouldn't expect to live more than another 61
> >> years.
> >>
> >> Please pray for my calm acceptance of this, or whatever else the Spirit
> >> might prompt you to pray for. Presumably if God wants me healed, He'll
> do
> >> it. I'll settle for just being calm accepting about it.
> >>
> >> Thanks for all prayers and good thoughts.
> >>
> >> (An exciting first post, no? Ha Ha Ha)
> >>
> >> Arthur
> >>
> >
> >
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan