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Dear Friends, Thank you all for your prayers - I'm home now and on an iv drip thanks to a misdiagnosis in early May  But nothing happens without a reason! The people I met in hospital and their suffering is very real and much worse than mine. Truth be told, I'm going down-hill quickly and am beyond medication which is only serving to cripple me. I'm in God's Hands now and hope I may continue to lean on your prayers. The dark night of the soul is just beginning for me now and it is positively frightening. May God forgive me and strengthen me in what lies ahead. May God help and preserve all of you. May God remit my sins, known and unknown. Alex
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Alex,
Prayers continue for your health and salvation.
John
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Thank you John.
I'm very much afraid. Guess am not as spiritual as I like to think of myself as being.
I'll work on it!
Alex
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Dear Pani, You must be referring to someone other than me . . .  Alex
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Alex,
It is because these dark nights that we pray in the Our Father that we not be brought to the time of trial, and that we be delivered from evil.
You are not deficient spiritually...just making some painful progressions in Theosis.
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Thank you for your words sir!
I've learned that in times of personal crisis and suffering, prayer is always a slow, reflective exercise in the midst of silence.
Thank you once again.
Alex
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Thank you to everyone for your prayers! My full eye-sight has returned. My doctor says that I have a cataract growing in the right eye and will have to eventually have it removed, so he doesn't understand how my eye-sight can be better with it . . . Sometimes it's good not to be too inquisitive . . . Thank you and may the Lord have mercy on you for your kindness and witness to the Charity of Christ! Alex
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May God bless everyone here and those who have remembered me in what are truly powerful prayers before the Throne of the Almighty!
Please forgive me for anything I've said or done to offend.
Physicians are very good, but prayer alone and in silence is the best possible support system, as you all know.
Alex
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Abba Father, we know you are a God of miracles. We ask for total healing for our brother Alex!
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Dear Intercessors in Christ!
Today I was taken off all devices - three weeks ahead of schedule!
To God be the glory! Thank you!
We visited the travelling icon with the Holy Relics of Blessed Venerable Mother Josaphata (Hordashevska) at St Nicholas today and I invoked God's blessing on you all!
Alex
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This is great news about your improvement Alex - Glory to God !
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ABBA FATHER WE THANK,PRAISE, AND GLORIFY YOU FOR THE MIRACLE YOU ARE DOING FOR OUR BROTHER ALEX. Abba Father, we know you are a God of miracles. We ask for continued healing for our brother Alex!
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Just a note of to thank one and all for your prayers.
I've been taken off all medications, iv drips etc. Although slated for surgery, this week I was given the all clear and won't be undergoing any eye surgery or anything of the sort.
My specialist said "You must have a lot of people praying for you!"
Thanks to you all who have prayed this miracle of recovery on me from Heaven!
(If anyone doubts the power of prayer, let that person come here with their petitions and find out for themselves! Thank you Mr. Administrator and the Moderators here for making this invaluable shared spiritual resource available to us all!)
Glory to You, O Lord, glory to You!
Alex
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I am grateful to God for His goodness in healing you.
Alice
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