[Magdalen] prayers please

[Marion Thompson]

Aw, rotten luck.  Prayers rising for Billy and all who care for him.

Marion, a pilgrim


On 4/3/2017 1:38 PM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> Please pray for Billy Barnes (geologist), business partner of my 
> friend Jim. All last year Billy seemed to have lung/pneumonia problems 
> and was hospitalized a few times, and seemed to be recovered but then 
> something else would happen. It turned out he had several tumors in 
> his lungs. After radiation he seemed to bounce back (he is 88, and 
> until recently a spry-guy) figuratively, but he had gone really 
> downhill over the last few weeks and yesterday was given a diagnosis 
> that it had spread to the liver and that he had, at most, a month to 
> live. He is now in Hospice care at home.  In parallel with this sad 
> news, Jim is out on the site of the oil leases that they have been 
> trying to get someone to drill for the last 9 years.  They've had 
> 'drill to own' offers during this time that only went so far in the 
> bad oil economy (someone else drills and spends that $$ and the lease 
> holder/s retain a small steak and hands the lease over to the 
> drillers), and finally have a partnership with investors that is going 
> forward with drilling. Jim is out there at the site this week 
> supervising the 'finish' work on the to pads for drilling to begin 
> before the end of the month.
>
> I'm just praying.  I am hoping for peace for Billy, and maybe just a 
> little more time if it's not pain-filled....  I so wish that his 
> feisty spirit might linger on this vale long enough to see if this 
> lease gets drilled. His own history, with the conviction that this 
> remote and obscure 'fault' is oil-filled, is at least 50 years old.
>
> peace
> Lynn
>
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>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have 
> not a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You 
> gave me." attributed to Erma Bombeck
> "Either Freedom for all or stop talking about Freedom at all" from a 
> talk by Richard Rohr
> "The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom 
> they oppress." F Douglass
>