Kat, thanks for this interesting thread.
I have a few questions?
1. Kat what is the source of your faith? What do you consider as the final authority of your faith?
2. Seed you said, "It seems to me as a Christian/Hindu/Buddhist/Shinto/Baha'i/etc.", what is the source of this faith? What do you consider the final authority of your faith?
It order for me to believe in something I need a source and an authority. Whitout this I would drift around living by feelings only.
As a teenager, 45 years ago, I found the source of my faith. With that source came a book that has become the final authority of that faith.
About healing, "Lift the spirt of a person and healing will follow". The person body may not be healed but their spirit may be healed. My brother died of Cancer, His body lost the battel but his spirit "sored" until the end. Don't tell me everyones prayers, love or good will did not heal his spirit, I saw it happen.
When I sing "the Rose", I sing it as a memory of my brother. The last first could have been written with Ron in mind. That song is Healing for me.
Kat, stay the course.
Lloyd