God is the Grand Weaver

Antidote to Poison
”I was haunted by failure to the edge of suicide—and then came life”, Ravi Zacharias

Today as an apologist preaching in more than 70 countries, I can say only that God is the Grand Weaver, capable of creating an unexpected and beautiful pattern out of a broken life.

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Bringing people back from the dead

Bringing people back from the dead

April 25, 2013

A doctor says people can be revived several hours after they have seemingly died, BBC News reports. Should this change the way we think about death? “While 45 minutes is absolutely remarkable and a lot of people would have written her off, we now know there are people who have been brought back, three, four, … more…

SENIORS AND GOOD MENTAL HEALTH

How Therapy Can Help in the Golden Years

By ABBY ELLIN

 

April 22, 2013

Marvin Tolkin was 83 when he decided that the unexamined life wasn’t worth living. Until then, it had never occurred to him that there might be emotional “issues” he wanted to explore with a counselor.

“I don’t think I ever needed therapy,” said Mr. Tolkin, a retired manufacturer of women’s undergarments who lives in Manhattan and Hewlett Harbor, N.Y.

Though he wasn’t clinically depressed, Mr. Tolkin did suffer from migraines and “struggled through a lot of things in my life” — the demise of a long-term business partnership, the sudden death of his first wife 18 years ago. He worried about his children and grandchildren, and his relationship with his current wife, Carole.

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GOT SHOES?

Pope phones Argentine shoemaker for shoe repairs

Vatican City, Apr 18, 2013 / 01:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Francis, who has quickly become known for his austere style, will continue using his simple black shoes and has called his shoemaker from his hometown of Buenos Aires, Argentina to repair them.

For 40 years, 81 year-old Carlos Samaria has provided shoes from his store on the outskirts of the Argentine capital for Pope Francis, who was known before his election to the papacy as Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio.

“Hello Samaria, it’s Bergoglio,” the phone conversation began.

“But who is this?” the shoemaker responded with surprise.

“Samaria, it's Francis, the Pope!” the Holy Father replied.

According to Vatican Radio’s Brazilian program, the Holy Father told Samaria, “No red shoes, make them black like usual.”

Samaria said the shoes Pope Francis wears “are simple and made of black leather, with a smooth toe and no decorations. 

“If you were to grab one of the Pope’s shoes it would feel like a clog, without any adornment but with laces,” the shoemaker explained.

“He doesn’t want new shoes, only that I fix his old ones,” Samaria said.

However, he added that he is planning to “make a new but simple pair to be ready for him when he says I can visit, in May.”

Cancer Care Forum and Health Fair - Saturday, April 20th -

Saturday, April 20th

PROGRAM DETAILS:
12PM-1PM Registration and Health Fair
1PM-4PM Forum, Q&A, book signing and coaching

When & Where

Rock Church
2277 Rosecrans St
San Diego, CA 92106

Saturday, April 20, 2013 from 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM (PDT)

If you have cancer, are a survivor, lost someone because of this disease or know someone with cancer, even if you don't have cancer...this event is for YOU!

• Doctors don't know what causes cancer.

• More people died of cancer last year than were killed in WWII, the Korean War and the Vietnam War combined.

• Chemotherapy doesn't cure cancer.

• Surgery doesn't cure cancer.

• Radiation therapy doesn't cure cancer.

Statistics show that one in two Americans will get cancer in their lifetime. It's either going to be me, or YOU!

Join us Saturday, April 20th as the Rock Cancer C.A.R.E. Ministry partners with the American Anti-Cancer Institute to bring you a free forum and health fair on "Killing Cancer - Not People."

Hear from Tamela Reed, Founder of Rock Cancer C.A.R.E. and learn how to receive support services for cancer patients and their care givers, such as transportation to appointments, housecleaning and spiritual support from the only Christ-centered cancer support group in San Diego.

Get the TRUTH from Robert Wright, founder and Director of the American Anti-Cancer Institute (AACI): Learn about the AACI's top 10 natural recommendations to help your body heal naturally, learn ways to be proactive against this disease, and receive free one-on-one cancer coaching!

Receive additional resources and information through our health fair:

Rock Cancer C.A.R.E.

Kangen Water

SD Spinal Care

The Stronghold Crossfit and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

Reliv

Go Raw

Go Green

Therapy Specialist

California Avocados Direct

Gerson Institute

Saturday, April 20th

PROGRAM DETAILS:
12PM-1PM Registration and Health Fair
1PM-4PM Forum, Q&A, book signing and coaching

**Child care will not be provided, however we will reserve a special area for families to sit together.**

Carol Garlow clings to Christ

When healing doesn’t come

Carol Garlow clings to Christ, family in protracted cancer battle

EL CAJON, Calif. — Last year, while Carol Garlow was sedated after a fifth hospital visit in four months due to complications from chemotherapy, the doctor told her pastor husband, Jim Garlow, that his wife was in renal failure and only had 6 weeks to live.

Garlow, pastor of Skyline Church in La Mesa, Calif., called in the troops: their immediate family, extended family and several close friends who had been their support system for her then five-year battle with ovarian cancer. They all gathered around her bedside awaiting the doctor to fill them in on what was next.

“I had no idea this was going on,” Carol Garlow said about the experience. “I had no idea what this doctor was telling my family. He felt like my body was shutting down, or beginning to. I came into the emergency room with some problems, but I didn’t feel like I was close to death,” she added, chuckling at the prognosis.

When she awoke in the mid afternoon, she was confused by the group that had gathered around her bedside and was wondering what was going on.

“All of a sudden they heard from me, ‘Did I miss something?’”

Later she learned that while she was under sedation her husband “just fell apart.”

“If I had been awake I could have fought them on it. ‘No I’m not. I am not dying. I have longer to live than [6 weeks]. I can feel it.’ You know, you can just feel it,” she said in a 90-minute exclusive interview from her El Cajon home where she continues to be treated for the cancer, which has since spread to her liver.

“The Lord hadn’t spoken to me and said, ‘Carol, you are on your last. I know that He will speak to me and He will say to me, ‘It’s time.’ I haven’t received that yet,” she said.

As has been her pattern since she was diagnosed in July 2007, Carol rallied after her treatment and by that evening was feeling much stronger.

“I was a totally different person than the person who came in the morning,” she said, proudly boasting that she was “ruining the doctor’s pronouncement that I only had [6 weeks] to live.”
“I’ve had these experiences where I’m just really down, I’m really sick, I’m having trouble, and all of a sudden I rise up and I’m strong again and I’m moving forward.”

The cycle has been repeated dozens of times and more frequently in recent months, prompting the family—for the first time ever—to discuss hospice. Just four days before her interview with the Christian Examiner, Carol spent an entire day rolled up in a ball, wracked with pain. She was non-responsive and unable to move around.

“We had a long, hard cry,” Jim Garlow confessed. “I gave her permission to stop fighting. We went through that day and then Monday she rises up and she is fighting again. She’s going for it.”

Read more at The Christian Examiner