Tag Archives: ordinary miracles
Miracle Stories
Miracle Stories We are just back from another of our week-long stays in Riverside, California. We go there periodically to get treatments only available from the neuropathy clinic at Loma Linda Hospital. Here’s how we “happened” to learn of this … Continue reading →
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Tagged airport wheelchairs, analytic philosophers, angels among us, being resigned, Bible movies, Cecil B. DeMille, chance occurrences, chance v providence, Dr. Mark Bussell, experimental treatment, graveside service, holistic treatment, intelligent listening, laws of nature, mind and body, miracle stories, miracles, natural miracles, nerve regeneration, Neuropathic Therapy Center at Loma Linda Hospital, neuropathy, neuropathy treatments, Non-Western medicine, ordinary miracles, peripheral neuropathy, persistence, pretended resignation, real-life miracles, supernatural miracles, telling miracles stories
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Woman’s Search for Meaning
Woman’s Search for Meaning I’ve talked two friends out of committing suicide. Don’t recall exactly what I said, but I do know what went into my general approach. First, I ignored their existential/metaphysical pronouncements, eloquent as they were. Life, they … Continue reading →
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Tagged Abigail L. Rosenthal's "A Good Look at Evil", absurdity, alternative healing, betrayal of trust, canceled engagements, canceled speech, chance happenings, charlatan healers, clues to the plot, Coincidences, contemplating suicide, correct diagnosis, crisis of meaning, desecration, desecration of woman, despair, dislocation, distance healing, Divine interventions, divine/human partnership, existential anxiety, expectations frustrated, focused mind, friendship, God as Co-Author, hopeful signals, indifferent world, invisible crisis, invisible suffering, life crisis, living one’s story, loss of grip, loss of meaning, meaningful life, meaningless world, mental healing, mental labyrinth, metaphysical materialism, metaphysics, mind and body, mind and matter, Mind Control, MRI's, negative energy, neuropathy treatment, Nor'easter, novelistic lives, ordinary miracles, personal defeat, power outage, precognition, preserving self image, Providential happenings, public speaking, quieted mind, Raiki healing, reorientation, rescheduling, saving the story, search for meaning, self image, sense of self, senselessness, small defeats, speaking events, spiritual malpractice, spiritual seduction, spiritual temptation, suicidal thoughts, suicide, suicide prevention, the right name, Thomas Hardy's Tess of The d'Urbervilles, travel plans, true north, Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning, world out of joint
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