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Amber Adrian's avatar

Love thiiiiis. As someone who is both a Christian and a huge hippie I love to see the integration of stuff like this. It’s rare (but it affirms my sense of things too!). Thank you for being you and for sharing with us xx

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Fr. Paul Guarnere's avatar

What a wonderful sharing! Thank you, Peta! God has guided you by way of these alternative, shall I say, analytical systems of understanding health such to have you arrive at the spiritual one of forgiveness. I highly commend you for your perseverance in the process!

If I may add a small insight, it stuck me that you chose the healing of the paralytic as your first and foremost example. Why? Most other healings that Jesus performed in the Bible result in an action of initiation (even if only words) by the one afflicted. The woman reaching to touch his garment, the lepers walking closer to the road than was allowed and calling to him, the blind man calling and yelling out to jesus. etc. Bot there are only a few instances where the action of initiation was performed by someone *other* than the afflicted one, and "their faith" is the catalyst for the healing to occur. Why is this important?

Because the men who worked to lower the paralytic through the roof had not only faith, but demonstrated love/charity for their friend (or relative or neighbor as was the case). So in this case, and with Jairus' daughter, and the servant of the centurion, love was combined with faith to make the healing of forgiveness efficacious for the person who otherwise did not have access to Jesus.

Let me, again, commend you for your outstanding work and writig and encourage you on your further work in reclaiming human healing from the pharmaceutical merchants of chronic malaise and, now, the transhuminist wizards of nanobiotechnology who seek to become Gods over all humanity with their heinous techno-alchemy.

Yes, let us all keep working to claim and defend all the greatness, beauty, wonder, and goodness that God created in each one of us!

Peace & Blessings to you and yours.

✨️🕊🙏🎊✨️

Godspeed.

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