Thread closed      Thread closed My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board home   Printer-friendly view   » Ship of Fools   »   » Oblivion   » Prayers of the Faithful 2014 (Page 71) Email this page to a friend or enemy.   Pages in this thread: 1  2  3  ...  68  69  70  71  72  73  74  76  77  78    Source: (consider it) Thread: Prayers of the Faithful 2014 Rossweisse High Church Valkyrie # 2349 Posted                    Lamb Chopped has offered up some prayer requests on my behalf, but I'm finally back my own self, in the virtual flesh. Every other year, it seems, I end up with cancer bombing out Christmas: 2010 was the original, stage 3 inflammatory breast carcinoma. 2012 was the little one, an early-stage breast cancer dealt with via surgery. Now the first one has returned, like a bad movie sequel: Stage 4, the Revenge. It's metatasized to my sacrum, the left half of which looks like one of those wind-sculpted rock formations in the Utah desert. My docs think we can "manage" it, with radiation, new pills, and "bone builders" delivered via infusion. No chemo this time, for which I give thanks. I ask your prayers for strength (physical, emotional, spiritual), for success in the treatment, and for a continued sense of humor. Thank you! b [ 03. December 2014, 19:52: Message edited by: Rossweisse ] -------------------- I'm not dead yet. Posts: 15117 | From: Valhalla | Registered: Feb 2002  |  IP: Logged Uncle Pete Loyaute me lie # 10422 Posted                    Prayers aplenty for you, my dear. Cancer: the Gift that keeps on giving. NOT. -------------------- Even more so than I was before Posts: 20466 | From: No longer where I was | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged Gee D Shipmate # 13815 Posted                    To which we add ours. -------------------- Not every Anglican in Sydney is Sydney Anglican Posts: 7028 | From: Warrawee NSW Australia | Registered: Jun 2008  |  IP: Logged Tree Bee Ship's tiller girl # 4033 Posted                     Rossweisse good to see you back. -------------------- "Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple." — Woody Guthrie http://saysaysay54.wordpress.com Posts: 5257 | From: me to you. | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged Laud-able Ship's Ancient # 9896 Posted                     Dear Rossweisse, Prayers ascending, and a candle lit before Our Lady. -------------------- '. . . "Non Angli, sed Angeli" "not Angels, but Anglicans"', Sellar, W C, and Yeatman, R J, 1066 and All That, London, 1930, p. 6. Posts: 279 | From: Melbourne, Australia | Registered: Jul 2005  |  IP: Logged Lamb Chopped Ship's kebab # 5528 Posted                     -------------------- Er, this is what I've been up to (book). Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down! Posts: 20059 | From: off in left field somewhere | Registered: Feb 2004  |  IP: Logged Ann Curious # 94 Posted                     Rossweisse -------------------- Ann Posts: 3271 | From: IO 91 PI | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Moo Ship's tough old bird # 107 Posted                     Rossweisse Moo -------------------- Kerygmania host --------------------- See you later, alligator. Posts: 20365 | From: Alleghany Mountains of Virginia | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Ann Curious # 94 Posted                     Awful Din (Joyful Noise) -------------------- Ann Posts: 3271 | From: IO 91 PI | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged JoannaP Shipmate # 4493 Posted                     Rossweisse Also to see you posting again. I have been praying and wondering how you were. -------------------- "Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow." R. H. Tawney (quoted by Isaiah Berlin) "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin Posts: 1877 | From: England | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged Rossweisse High Church Valkyrie # 2349 Posted                    Thank you all! I have been too long away, and I have missed the Ship. -------------------- I'm not dead yet. Posts: 15117 | From: Valhalla | Registered: Feb 2002  |  IP: Logged Sioni Sais Shipmate # 5713 Posted                     We've missed you too Rossweisse, we've not stopped praying, nor shall we. -------------------- "He isn't Doctor Who, he's The Doctor" (Paul Sinha, BBC) Posts: 24276 | From: Newport, Wales | Registered: Apr 2004  |  IP: Logged Telepath Ship's Steamer Trunk # 3534 Posted                     ROSSWEISSE!!!! Cancer be gone!!! Welease Woderwick, Joyful Noise, Robert Armin, Starbug, Uncle Pete. A few private intentions. For the F. family. [ 04. December 2014, 00:07: Message edited by: Telepath ] -------------------- Take emptiness and lying speech far from me, and do not give me poverty or wealth. Give me a living sufficient for me. Posts: 3509 | From: East Anglia | Registered: Nov 2002  |  IP: Logged Mamacita Lakefront liberal # 3659 Posted                     Ross! Great to see you here! But sad at the news. Prayers aplenty for you! -------------------- Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. Posts: 20761 | From: where the purple line ends | Registered: Dec 2002  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                     Another one glad to see The Return of Rossweisse but sad at the news. Holding us all, particularly Ross, in the living, loving Light. -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged Kelly Alves Bunny with an axe # 2522 Posted                     Exactly. Glad to see you're back, so sorry about the news. -------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003. Posts: 35076 | From: Pura Californiana | Registered: Mar 2002  |  IP: Logged Piglet Islander # 11803 Posted                     Rossweisse, welcome back! for you that your treatment will be as effective and un-horrid as possible. God, cancer sucks. also for all others in need. -------------------- I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander. alto n a soprano who can read music Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006  |  IP: Logged Starbug Shipmate # 15917 Posted                     Lord, in Your mercy, hear our prayers. -------------------- “Oh the pointing again. They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them?” ― The Day of the Doctor Posts: 1189 | From: West of the New Forest | Registered: Sep 2010  |  IP: Logged Starbug Shipmate # 15917 Posted                     Lord, in Your mercy, hear our prayers. -------------------- “Oh the pointing again. They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them?” ― The Day of the Doctor Posts: 1189 | From: West of the New Forest | Registered: Sep 2010  |  IP: Logged Lothlorien Ship's Grandma # 4927 Posted                     Rossweisse, many prayers for you from me too. I was thinking about you just a couple of days ago. -------------------- Buy a bale. Help our Aussie rural communities and farmers. Another great cause needing support The High Country Patrol. Posts: 9745 | From: girt by sea | Registered: Aug 2003  |  IP: Logged Golden Key Shipmate # 1468 Posted                       For healing and good resolution of Ferguson, NYC, and all similar situations. And peace. For me: health, general upholding, private intentions, and dealing with various helpers and "powers that be". Thx. -------------------- Blessed Gator, pray for us! --"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon") --"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train") Posts: 18601 | From: Chilling out in an undisclosed, sincere pumpkin patch. | Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged daisymay St Elmo's Fire # 1480 Posted                    reading praying -------------------- London Flickr fotos Posts: 11224 | From: London - originally Dundee, Blairgowrie etc... | Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged fullgospel Shipmate # 18233 Posted                        Rossweisse all here and all they care about -------------------- on the one hand - self doubt on the other, the universe that looks through your eyes - your eyes Posts: 364 | From: Rubovia | Registered: Sep 2014  |  IP: Logged jedijudy Organist of the Jedi Temple # 333 Posted                     Rossweisse! It is so good to see you here! You have my prayers, my friend! Praying for all of us. -------------------- Jasmine, little cat with a big heart. Posts: 18017 | From: 'Twixt the 'Glades and the Gulf | Registered: Aug 2001  |  IP: Logged Nanny Ogg Ship's cushion # 1176 Posted                     Further news about Joyful Noise via Facebok (he does know I've been posting here). The doctors have found no cause for the pain but and he's planning his escape but he hopes to be out soon. Please continue to pray for him and his family and for a diagnosis and end to his pain. -------------------- Buy me a beer and I'm you friend forever Posts: 4137 | From: Away with the fairies | Registered: Aug 2001  |  IP: Logged ErinBear Shipmate # 13173 Posted                     Rossweisse, it is indeed good to see your post here, although I, too, wish it could be for different reasons. I'm so sorry to hear about the cancer's recurrence, especially around this time of year. I've been remembering you in my thoughts and prayers all along, and will redouble my efforts! Reading through the list, and praying Posts: 2441 | From: California, USA | Registered: Nov 2007  |  IP: Logged Robert Armin All licens'd fool # 182 Posted                    Another bit of rejoicing at the return of Ross! And for the cancer. for all who have posted, with many thanks for the kind words sent in my direction. -------------------- Keeping fit was an obsession with Fr Moity .... He did chin ups in the vestry, calisthenics in the pulpit, and had developed a series of Tai-Chi exercises to correspond with ritual movements of the Mass. The Antipope Robert Rankin Posts: 8927 | From: In the pack | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Kelly Alves Bunny with an axe # 2522 Posted                     Coming from Hell to offer a prayer for RA. -------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003. Posts: 35076 | From: Pura Californiana | Registered: Mar 2002  |  IP: Logged Robert Armin All licens'd fool # 182 Posted                    Prayers from the Hell bunny - I feel deeply honoured. -------------------- Keeping fit was an obsession with Fr Moity .... He did chin ups in the vestry, calisthenics in the pulpit, and had developed a series of Tai-Chi exercises to correspond with ritual movements of the Mass. The Antipope Robert Rankin Posts: 8927 | From: In the pack | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged fullgospel Shipmate # 18233 Posted                        -------------------- on the one hand - self doubt on the other, the universe that looks through your eyes - your eyes Posts: 364 | From: Rubovia | Registered: Sep 2014  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                     Holding us all in the living, loving Light. -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged Rossweisse High Church Valkyrie # 2349 Posted                    Praying through. -------------------- I'm not dead yet. Posts: 15117 | From: Valhalla | Registered: Feb 2002  |  IP: Logged RuthW liberal "peace first" hankie squeezer # 13 Posted                    Robert Armin Rossweisse Posts: 24453 | From: La La Land | Registered: Apr 2001  |  IP: Logged Nicolemr Shipmate # 28 Posted                        Prayers for all, especially Rossweise. -------------------- On pilgrimage in the endless realms of Cyberia, currently traveling by ship. Now with live journal! Posts: 11803 | From: New York City "The City Carries On" | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged M. Ship's Spare Part # 3291 Posted                     Yes, prayers for Rossweisse and good to see you back. I too have been thinking about you recently. M. Posts: 2303 | From: Lurking in Surrey | Registered: Sep 2002  |  IP: Logged Eutychus From the edge # 3081 Posted                       Good to see you back, Ross. -------------------- Let's remember that we are to build the Kingdom of God, not drive people away - pastor Frank Pomeroy Posts: 17944 | From: 528491 | Registered: Jul 2002  |  IP: Logged Ariel Shipmate # 58 Posted                       Yes indeed, welcome back. Everybody Posts: 25445 | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Starbug Shipmate # 15917 Posted                     Lord, in Your mercy, hear our prayers. -------------------- “Oh the pointing again. They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them?” ― The Day of the Doctor Posts: 1189 | From: West of the New Forest | Registered: Sep 2010  |  IP: Logged Heavenly Anarchist Shipmate # 13313 Posted                       -------------------- 'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.' Douglas Adams Dog Activity Monitor My shop Posts: 2831 | From: Trumpington | Registered: Jan 2008  |  IP: Logged L'organist Shipmate # 17338 Posted                        RIP Jeremy Thorpe Yes, a flawed man (who isn't) but a basically good man who stopped the Liberal Party from disappearing into oblivion. -------------------- Rara temporum felicitate ubi sentire quae velis et quae sentias dicere licet Posts: 4950 | From: somewhere in England... | Registered: Sep 2012  |  IP: Logged fullgospel Shipmate # 18233 Posted                        praying for you and you -------------------- on the one hand - self doubt on the other, the universe that looks through your eyes - your eyes Posts: 364 | From: Rubovia | Registered: Sep 2014  |  IP: Logged daisymay St Elmo's Fire # 1480 Posted                    reading praying -------------------- London Flickr fotos Posts: 11224 | From: London - originally Dundee, Blairgowrie etc... | Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged QLib Bad Example # 43 Posted                     Joyful Noise, Rossweisse, Robert Amin -------------------- Tradition is the handing down of the flame, not the worship of the ashes Gustav Mahler. Posts: 8913 | From: Page 28 | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged fullgospel Shipmate # 18233 Posted                        -------------------- on the one hand - self doubt on the other, the universe that looks through your eyes - your eyes Posts: 364 | From: Rubovia | Registered: Sep 2014  |  IP: Logged ChastMastr Shipmate # 716 Posted                        Praying for all!! And love and welcome back to Rossweisse!! Speaking of family holiday trepidation, I have finally decided to send cards, with a letter inside explaining who I am (which will include the fact that, yes, I'm gay--I'm 47 and I have no intent to dilly-dally around with that as if it's a game) to the various relatives, mainly cousins, whom I haven't really gotten to know, and who my parents (now dead seven years) would have been the ones to send cards to. I'm not sure how the Baptist minister uncle in Kentucky will react (... I can make a guess...) nor the other relatives on that side of the family, but, well, I don't know what to expect, but I really want to make at least one real stab at getting connected to my biological family, even if it doesn't work out. Maybe I'll get a nice response from some of them, maybe I'll get hate mail telling me where I will go when I die. No idea. Nervous but I really want to make at least one try... Cubby's health seems to be, I think, improving. But definitely not happy with this doctor/insurance thing. And of course for my and all students, and those who teach them, as at least here next week is Finals Week. -------------------- My essays on comics continuity: http://chastmastr.tumblr.com/tagged/continuity Posts: 14068 | From: Clearwater, Florida | Registered: Jul 2001  |  IP: Logged ChastMastr Shipmate # 716 Posted                        Oh, and... a rekindling of my faith. Not that I've stopped believing or anything like that, but now that I am 47, and I haven't accomplished the sorts of things I thought I would have, and I have more of a sense of my impending mortality... I find myself troubled by the fact that all of that bothers me. It didn't used to. When I was a young Christian and first in college, I couldn't wait to die and be with Jesus. Have I become so rooted in this world that I've lost that desire? I don't think I have, but I think it needs to be rekindled a bit. The whole "we had a house and it got foreclosed" thing (now, what, 5 years ago?) weighs on me as if it's a personal moral failing, rather than as "stuff of this world" to move on from. Please pray. -------------------- My essays on comics continuity: http://chastmastr.tumblr.com/tagged/continuity Posts: 14068 | From: Clearwater, Florida | Registered: Jul 2001  |  IP: Logged Piglet Islander # 11803 Posted                     for all in need. -------------------- I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander. alto n a soprano who can read music Posts: 20272 | From: Fredericton, NB, on a rather larger piece of rock | Registered: Sep 2006  |  IP: Logged Welease Woderwick Sister Incubus Nightmare # 10424 Posted                     Holding us all in the living, loving Light. -------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand? Posts: 48139 | From: 1st on the right, straight on 'til morning | Registered: Sep 2005  |  IP: Logged Rossweisse High Church Valkyrie # 2349 Posted                    Chastmaster for all -------------------- I'm not dead yet. Posts: 15117 | From: Valhalla | Registered: Feb 2002  |  IP: Logged Amos Shipmate # 44 Posted                    Praying through the thread. For Ross, for Chast, for all in need of healing, strength, and peace. Asking all your prayers for a boy called Tom, the son of a dear friend, who, while working as an apprentice tree surgeon, fell from the top of a tree a few days ago and broke his back: surgery and rehab await him, and none of us knows what the future will hold in the way of mobility. -------------------- At the end of the day we face our Maker alongside Jesus--ken Posts: 7667 | From: Summerisle | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Pages in this thread: 1  2  3  ...  68  69  70  71  72  73  74  76  77  78         Thread closed         Printer-friendly view Go to: Select a board: Category: Ship's business -------------------- The Styx Category: Community discussion -------------------- Heaven Purgatory Hell All Saints Category: Special interest discussion -------------------- Ecclesiantics Kerygmania The Circus Dead Horses The Eighth Day Category: Ship's Locker -------------------- Glory Limbo Category: Things we did -------------------- Nativity Play Auctions The Laugh Judgment The Da Vinci Code Chapter & Worse Contact us | Ship of Fools | Privacy statement © Ship of Fools 2016 UBB.classicTM 6.5.0