[Magdalen] prayers please

[Ginga Wilder]

Prayers for a peaceful death for Billy.

Ginga

On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Aw, rotten luck.  Prayers rising for Billy and all who care for him.
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> Marion, a pilgrim
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> On 4/3/2017 1:38 PM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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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>> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
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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
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