I just returned from a Methodist workshop in southern Washington state.  I was asked to pray for Kathy's friend, Elaine, who is in her 9th year battling ovarian cancer (stage 3 and spreading, chemo, etc.).  Elaine goes to Spokane for more tests next week, so hopefully there is improvement or, better, complete healing.  Elaine is a high school teacher and her husband Rick is a highschool principal.  Elaine and Rick shared these two ADCs with me.

Elaine's niece, Tami H, had died unexpectedly, while a student at Washington State.  It was Christmas about a year later and a family reunion was planned. Elaine asked Rick to try to get some eggs at a nearby mini-mart.  There was only one carton of a dozen eggs left.  Rick paid for it and received a dollar bill and some change back, which he quickly stuffed in his pocket.  When he got home, he by chance noticed some writing on the dollar bill.  It read "Tami H." with a smiley face underneath.  Note the correct but unusual spelling (i. e. not "Tammy").  H was the initial of Tami's last name.  The cashier was  a stranger and wrote nothing on the bill in Rick's presence..  Besides, Tami had lived far, far away.  Rick and Elaine were both blown away by this ADC. 

Meanwhile, Tami's Mom (Elaine's sister) had been having several dreams and waking visions of her daughter.  Tami had always appeared full-bodied, but in the last vision she appeared only from the waist up.  Tami explained that it was becoming harder and harder to manifest visually to her Mom as she progressed on the other side.  This fits  nicely with research done in the 1970s indicating that 50% of Americans (48% of Brits) report ADC contact with their deceased loved ones during the first year of their passing.  After that, ADCs are relatively rare. 

Don

By the way, Elaine had been to the healing spring at Lourdes. Her cancer went into remission, but it came back.   She gave me a sealed glass of water from this spring.  I already have a thermos of water from the healing spring at "the house of the Virgin Mary" at Ephesus in Turkey.

I've told the story here of how Dick thought this was a joke, but his wife Mary Ann convinced him to pour it on his knee with bad arthritis and torn tendons.  He had been scheduled for surgery frmo the top orthopedic surgeon in Spokane when he returned from Turkey.  The surgeon put him under anesthetic and cut him open, only to find nothing wrong.  Even the arthritis was gone!  I mean, the doctor had al MRIs, etc. to prove the tendons were torn and the arthritis was  there.

I also have a bottle of water from the Jordan River.  OK, some people collect stamps or rare coins; I collect water from holy springs or rivers.  Just imagine the healing service: one line gets anointed with Lourdes, another with the Virgin Mary's healing spring, and a 3rd with Jordan River water.  If I advertise this, it would bring a crowd.  But of course, I'd never do it.  Still, the fantasy is interesting.  And you can't buy those kinds of bottlled water at Wal-mart!
Don

It is the thought that counts.  Literally.  In the NT, Jesus looks on those who were healed by his touch and says "your faith has made you whole."  Note that he did not say "my faith has made you whole." 

In other words, it is the belief of the good person in the healing, the certitude that by touching the hem of JC's robe, etc. they would be healed that activated their healing potential. 

In this regard, the origin of the water may or may not really be important.  I have seen healings documented where believer's were told that a healing talisman was applied, when in fact it was a sham.  The miraculous healing still came forth. 

The healing process may to some extent be imprinted on the water (see the work of Emoto), but it is less important than the internal belief/certitude/thanks/conviction of the supplicant.


Matthew

Sometimes, Mogen things can be healed with faith.  Sometimes, we are given opportunities to heal with doctors and others in the physical world. 

I wouldn't let the Lourdes water be a test of your faith.  Many of the faithful go there for miracles but miracles aren't guaranteed.  It is simply that faith/conviction can change probabilities in the "real world" so that certain possibilities may be more likely. 

M

OK Mogen, but just as an FYI,

You have to believe it will work.  In your gut.  At your core.   You have to give thanks for the healing before it occurs, and cultivate the emotions and feeling of how you will feel if you are free of pain and walking well.  If you say "I don't think it will work but will try..."  it won't.

WIth meditation, you can let the healing thought slip to imprint itself onto your subconscious till it becomes a true conviction. 

Now my belief is that when you are convinced you will heal, the cure may come.  And while miraculous cures may happen, you also may be given another opportunity - a medical treatment, pill, topical agent, etc. that greatly improves your function and pain. 

Be open to the possibilities.

Matthew

There are other treatments too Mogen.  There is a lubricant injectoin in the US called "Synvisc" or "Orthovisc" that helps a lot of people.  There is a topical treatment with Lidocaine called Lidoderm and there are nutritional treatments that help including Bromelain, Turmeric and Glucosamine-Chondroitan.


M

Maybe try the lubricant anyway or get a second opinion about it?  Some surgeons just like to operate...

Don-

If this ADC is genuine, it raises some interesting questions.

All along I've heard/read that once someone has passed over, and they are still in the earth plane, they have no ability to affect physical things.

For instance, they pass their ethereal hands right through solid objects.  Nor can they pick up a pencil and write a note.

On the other hand, many people report that shortly after a loved one dies, they can not only sense their presence but can sometimes feel their hands pressing down on them as they lie in bed (which, by the way, happened to me the night after my own dad died).

So I have to wonder.....which is it?  Can the deceased affect the physical environment or not? 

I still have to think there's some sort of protocol that determines such things.  And it's something that no one has been able to figure out.  Why do some of us get solid ADCs while others, equally in need, get nothing.

I know that sometimes we do get signs or signals that we might dismiss or ignore.  I'm not excluding those things, nor am I excluding vivid dreams.

I'm really talking about solid, almost irrefutable evidence that our loved one survived death.  Those things remain all too infrequent (such as your Leonard story, which you might want to repeat for benefit of the newbies).

R