[Faith-Talk] Praying for Healing

Wed Aug 14 12:08:57 UTC 2024

Hi!

I am thrilled that you have an interest in Latin as I am a Latinist by training!

The most literal translation is: It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

Vale!
—Misty, your friendly neighborhood complete nerd!

Bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem. — L. Annaeus Seneca

> On Aug 13, 2024, at 8:37 AM, Doug Lee via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> I've been quiet amid all the writing this weekend and start of week mostly because I'm spending a lot of
> time helping a friend with ALS communicate, but I'll sneak in my favorite story on this subject and then I
> have a question about your signature block - question, that is, and perhaps a little fascination. :)
> 
> So I did a lot of traveling for work for several years recently, and on one occasion when I had a snappy
> plane transfer and was running late getting in, I chanced to encounter a guy on the way out of my arrival
> gate who wanted to stop and pray over me. I made a deal: We can pray together but while zipping down moving
> sidewalks and such so I would still be on time. He agreed, and of course proceeded to pray for the healing
> of my blindness. I then took my turn and prayed that God might help us see clearly what we are to do,
> regardless of circumstance. I don't remember either of our words well enough to type a quote, but I do
> recall that my final "Amen" coincided neatly with our sailing off the end of the last walkway and into my
> next gate, and that the plane was boarding at that instant, and that I went right on sailing aboard without
> a stop.
> 
> Now the question: "Bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem" translates via Google to "Goodness is not the
> best of the worst." To avoid the indiscretion of sending a private message before you know me... Do you have
> a better rendition of that one? Latin always fascinated me a bit but I never properly learned it.
> 
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2024 at 07:55:42AM -0400, Misty Kienzynski via Faith-Talk wrote:
> I was once standing right outside a store and some rando came up to my mom and me and started praying for my healing right there.
> 
> It made my mom cry (because she still blamed herself irrationally for her genetics) and made me feel just plain nervously awkward.
> 
> Real spiritual and other violation of my/our time/space right there, IMO.
> 
> I mean, I’m perfectly fine with others praying for my healing. It’s just that…there’s a time and place…and there’s also consent..and there’s also seeing the whole person and not just the blindness all the time..so…
> —
> 
> Misty, who believes that bad theology can irreparably harm
> 
> 
> 
> Bonitas non est pessimis esse meliorem. — L. Annaeus Seneca
> 
> 
>> On Aug 12, 2024, at 5:58 PM, andrew edgcumbe via Faith-Talk <faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi  one of my experiences with healing is i was at my mom and dad's camp
>> they owned and opporated a bible camp used to that is.
>> Anyway back to the topic at hand I was approached at least once
>> inparticular that is but 4 guys got around me praying my blindness out of
>> me. They were very persistant about it.
>> Also they just got whatever about it one guy stayed with me after that and
>> went right in my face he told me this much seek your healing and  there was
>> a time I actually did call up a few healing ministries one sent me a
>> healing cloth i put it near my eyes once and then thought better it and i
>> said to myself i am tossing that peace of garbage out.
>> 
>> The other part about praying for healing is that
>> There was one guy i used to talk to for most of the time for some years
>> maybe year or couple years and this was during that time that i was
>> investagating it more fully.
>> He praid at the end of each o phone call with me and guess what he would
>> pray for my healing and then he said can you see yet do you notice anythig
>> anything different.
>> 
>> So that is my experience.
>> The bible never tells us we will be fully be heald on earth
>> 
>> 
>>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 5:02 PM Linda Mentink via Faith-Talk <
>>> faith-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi again Humberto and All,
>>> 
>>> I have a story to share from a long ago. I went to a Full Gospel
>>> Businessmen's meeting, or something like that. A gentleman came up to talk
>>> to me. He told me that God doesn't want me to be blind. I said, "If God
>>> didn't want me to be blind, I wouldn't be. He has given me a ministry in
>>> music which I might not have if it weren't for my blindness. Besides, don't
>>> try to take away my excitement about the first face I see in heaven being
>>> that of Jesus Christ." He said, "But just think how much your ministrn
>>> would be enhanced if you got your sight back!" I don't remember what I
>>> said, but what I thought was, "No, what you're really saying is that your
>>> ministry would be enhanced if you healed me!" I'm sure it's a good thing I
>>> didn't say that!
>>> 
>>> The Holy Bible does not say that all will be healed. We will have
>>> suffering and disease here on earth because of sin in the world, but we
>>> will all be made whole when Christ takes us to Himself in heaven and places
>>> us in the mansions He is now preparing for His own.
>>> 
>>> I have a blind friend who was prayed for, and was told that he wasn't
>>> healed because he didn't have enough faith. It messed him up so badly that
>>> he wanted nothing to do with God. He now is one of His faithful servants!
>>> 
>>> OK, enough out of me for now. I need to get back to proofreading so that I
>>> can get it done before I leave for Wisconsin. I'm proofing sermons ahead
>>> because I will have limited access to the internet.
>>> 
>>> Blessings to you all, and thanks for reading, if you did!
>>> 
>>> Linda
> 
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> - Whoopi Goldberg
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