School Play: CINDERELLA Can you find Tyler as Prince Charming behind 6 of the Singaporean Seven Dwarves? 

Article by Tammy Bruce

I don't normally write about politics, but I found this article WHY A DEMOCRAT SHOULD VOTE FOR BUSH
by a notorious feminist quite refreshing.

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Pam Kluver's BIRTHDAY Pendant

Symbolism in the birthday gift...
Yep. I've had these pendants since I bought them the last week we
lived in China...waiting for the right person to give away to. As I was
pondering your birthday I decided to keep one for me and give that one to you.
Twins.
Besides it being Chinese and from China that makes it special,
there's also a funny special meaning to them too: I CAN'T figure out what that word is. The dictionary hasn't been
helpful.
The woman who sold them to me said it was a good meaning... didn't really understand what she said. But I bought them anyway -- with a laugh -- it symbolizes that I'll NEVER master this language! Like I love this pendant, but don't get
it, I'll never really GET the Chinese even though I love them dearly.
Just like you!
I'm not shut up writing too much, I've been teaching more than ever
(this week besides my little 5 star group, I've 3 other groups I'm teaching for that's really unusual!) I'll get the scripts done somehow. I've 2 done, 8 to go!

Little Miracle for Tyler

Yesterday, and quite by accident (but not God's accident - He was answering an 11 year old's prayers!) I stumbled on City Music. A friend had recommended this store and an amplifier sold there if we were going to go ahead and get a guitar for Tyler. And what did I find? a great package deal on the electric guitar with the recommended amp, case, cord and strap for a price tyler can
afford.Later in the day I took Tyler back to see it. Tyler will pick it up Wednesday.

A Friend with Lymphoma Shares His Understanding on Healing

Mike Crow's STRUGGLE WITH MEANING AND MYSTERY

(from his email prayer letter in November 2004)

Disease seems to hit Christian and non-Christian alike. Healing also occurs for some, but many are not healed. Some see illness as simple randomness and genetics. Others say God heals everyone who comes in faith. People take various positions between the extremes of meaninglessness and oversimplified meaning.

Position #1	Position #2	Position #3
If you’re pleasing to God, He’ll heal you! Medical help is a cop-out, a failure of faith. Everything has a 1:1 significance, a fixed meaning and purpose. Illness is either: (a) a result of personal sin, (b) a generational curse or (c) Satan’s attack. Just repent, refuse & resist!	God is all-powerful, good, sovereign and wise. We live in a fallen world with fallen bodies. Christians are not exempt from the consequences of Adam’s sin. God can & does intervene with healing. But He is hard to pin down to any hard and fast formula. Somehow, amazingly, He seems to bring glory to Himself both through healing and through our facing suffering with His grace and peace. Often it seems that we only come to this place through severe personal trial, being Biblically faithful yet embracing cold, hard realities. Get the best medical help you can trusting God through it all.	Illness occurs randomly & genetically. It’s all chaos & chance. Get the best medical help you can, then grin and bear it. The naïve attribute random junk & medical help to God. But there is no higher purpose or meaning. Faith is an obstacle to scientific advance
Tends to deny painful facts contrary to faith. Tends to simplify life and faith. Sees medicine as nice but unnecessary. Tends toward aggressive prayer.	Tends to struggle with integrating faith and suffering. Acknowledges God’s sovereignty in the mystery of life, even life with pain. Embraces medical advance as a gift from God to suffering humanity, made possible because of His image in man (compassion and intelligence). Tends to be more tentative in prayer (If it be Thy will).	Denies God and looks only at “the facts.” Tends toward skepticism, cynicism and / or hedonism. Medical advance is human ingenuity. Prayer is pointless.
God heals all who have faith, so lack of healing is a lack of faith. My faith releases God’s power. God is not in control; I am.	If God heals some but not others according to His will, then it does not depend so much on my faith as on His mercy. The stress is not on my faith but on God’s sovereignty. I am not in control; God is.	There is no God or miraculous healing. “Healings” are psychosomatic or a fraud. God is not in control; I am and so are my doctors!
Simplistic Meaning and Pat Answers	Meaning & Mystery	Meaninglessness, Cynicism, Despair

I’ve found myself struggling at every point along this continuum, trying to integrate faith with lack of healing. I’m now circulating around the middle area, embracing both the meaning found in faith and the mystery found in lack of healing. I am leaning heavily on the mystery of God’s mercy and rejoice in medical advance.

Indeed, I see my entry into the National Cancer Institute as a wonderful answer to prayer. I’ve jumped to the head of the queue! I’m at the cutting edge of research on lymphoma treatments, which other cancer patients will benefit from years from now.

Thank you, God, that I can be a part of Your work through human beings, to extend Your healing to any suffering person, regardless of their faith. This is truly Your mercy in action towards suffering humanity.