Dear sisters and brothers in Messiah,
Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus -
the name above all names! I hope that you and the loved ones are in good health
and are getting along! Good health is such a wonderful blessing from the
good Lord, our Creator Lord! How is your spirit on this glorious day
that the Lord has made? I am writing to you to ask for your help. I am living
in Sussex County and am looking for a place to worship the Lord at. I have come
to be known by the Lord for about 21 years now, and am 59 years old (divorced
multiple times, more than five children and more than three wives gone until
eternity? - only the good Lord knows at this point! and now living alone
without any of the little loved ones). I am of Jewish heritage and consider
myself to be a Jewish Christian, or a Jew. I don't know of any Messianic
congregations around here, and I don't think it would be wise to travel great
distances for worship. I have in the recent past have had problems with one
foot (the left one), and have recently had problems with the right shoulder,
but have been feeling well praise the Lord. Also, I am on a very tight budget.
I don't have much in way of assets compared to rich people (or middle class
people also), but compared to those living on less than $2 a day I probably
have a lot! I have been greatly blessed by the good Lord, our Creator Lord,
over my entire life (one time I was labeled autistic and couldn't speak [the
good Lord, the Great Physician, healed me], one time I was living out on the
streets, and one time I was deeply in debt [not that I believe in the
"prosperity Gospel"] - to mention only three times that I was blessed
by the Lord.
Please let me know if I could join you in the
worship of our loving, gracious, merciful Father, and our Lord and Savior - for
I worship the Holy One of Israel daily! I appreciate your prayers, and any and
all Godly advice. Thank you and may the Holy One of Israel bless you and the
loved ones with love, joy, peace, and patience!
In hope, peace, and love,
Ken Miller
Main St. Rm. 103
kmillerbloggerablogbyken@gmail.com
still one of the working poor - if only in
spirit!
Jesus is the Holy One of Israel! Jesus is
Lord!
Love one another.
Love is the fulfilling of the Law.
We love, because He first loved us. 1John4:19
Jesus is the Bread of Life!!!!
Please find out more about
Terri Schiavo - see www.lifeandhope.com
The following is an
article that appeared in lifeandhope, the publication of the Terri Schiavo Life
and Hope Network, Volume 6 / 2nd Edition / www.lifeandhope.com,
pgs. 4 - 5. It is posted free of charge here to help further the kingdom
of GOD!!!
forgetting
how to
LOVE
Are the profoundly disabled and frail elderly
living too long?
" ... bioethicist Daniel Callahan - who saw
the feeding tube as a serious hurdle - boldly stated that changing its
classification from 'basic care' to 'medical treatment' would be 'the only
effective way to make certain that a large number of biologically tenacious
patients actually die."
BY BOBBY SCHINDLER / LIFENEWS.COM
Originally appeared as Yes, We have a Culture
of Death
According to research reviewed by board certified medical geneticist and Co-Director of the Down Syndrome Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dr. Skotko, it is estimated that 92 percent of all women who receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome abort their baby.
World famous atheist
proselytizer and Oxford professor, Richard Dawkins, made headlines when he
called it "immoral" not to abort Down babies "and try
again."
Belgium has legalized
euthanasia (with no age limits) for children who have been diagnosed as
terminal and with death expected to occur "within a brief
period." If this criteria is met, then the parents - and child! -
may ask in writing for a lethal injection.
The head of Canada's largest
doctors' group has called child euthanasia an "appropriate" choice
under certain circumstances.
Northern Ireland Minister of
Justice, David Ford, is considering a change in the law so that it is legal to
kill pre-born babies suspected of being disabled.
Professor of Bioethics
at Princeton University, Peter Singer, believes we should be permitted to
lethally inject Alzheimer's "non-persons," even if they never asked
to be killed.
Currently, there is a
strong push advocating the removal of spoon feeding from Alzheimer's patients
if they so requested in an advance directive.
In 2012, a prominent
doctor in the UK made the chilling claim that the (NHS) - the publicly funded
healthcare systems in the UK (and what most likely Obamacare will look like for
us here in the US) - "kills off 130,000 elderly patients every year."
In a March 2008, New York
Times article titled, "Terminal Options for the Irreversibly
Ill", Judith Schwartz, a registered nurse and clinical coordinator for
Compassion and Choices of New York (formerly known as the Hemlock Society)
openly stated that over one million people die each year in American hospitals
as a "a consequence of someone's decision to withhold or withdraw
life-sustaining treatment."
In the same article, Dr.
Sidney Wanzer and Dr. Joseph Glenmullen of Harvard University Health Services
noted that in situations where a person is going to stop receiving food and
water, "refusal of hydration is faster and less distressing than
starvation in hastening death."
Sadly, these are just a
few more recent examples of the life-threatening prejudices plaguing the
disability community and countless others who are medically vulnerable.
Indeed, this terrible toll does not arise in a cultural vacuum, but reflects
attitudes that assume dead is better than disabled. And, there is no doubt,
that included in the number of patients dying in this sobering New York
Times article, regardless of its title are those with cognitive
disabilities who, every single day, are being starved and hydrated to death -
persons who are not dying, but who are simply living with their disability, and
only need basic care (food and water, via a feeding tube) to live.
It was not long ago that
feeding tubes were considered basic and ordinary care and therefore it was
illegal, an act of euthanasia, to stop feeding and hydrating a person in need
of a feeding tube. Today, however, feeding tubes have been redefined as
"artificial nutrition and hydration" - and therefore a form of "medical
treatment." Consequently, the removal of food and water from the
cognitively disabled patients, and countless other medically vulnerable people,
is now legal and routine in fifty states.
In his book, Culture
of Death: The Assault on Medical Ethics in America, author and bioethicist
Wesley J. Smith writes that, "defining 'artificial nutrition' as treatment
instead of human care was a crucial step in the development of the culture of
death." According to Smith, as far back as the early 80s, bioethicists
began to debate out loud whether or not "the profoundly disabled and frail
were living too long." In particular, bioethicist Daniel Callahan -
who saw the feeding tube as a serious hurdle - boldly stated that changing its
classification from "basic care" to "medical treatment"
would be "the only effective way to make certain that a large number of
biologically tenacious patients actually die."
Eventually, more bioethicists
agreed with Callahan's view, as well as health care professionals, politicians,
judges, and others, ultimately accomplishing their goal of redefining the
administration of food and hydration via a feeding tube.
Today, either the
general public is unaware of this change, or they just don't care. But if
you think dehydrating to death our medically vulnerable isn't happening, then
you are not paying attention.
Whatever the reason, the
mainstream media does very little to properly clear up any confusion that may
exist, as they continue to report that persons who receive food and water via
feeding tubes are receiving "artificial life support," giving the
perception that these people are aided by machines.
Tragically, too many of
us today have become disconnected and desensitized to our own dignity and
intrinsic worth. It seems we no longer know how to love, and we place
more significance and value on what a person can or cannot do, instead of
understanding the value and dignity of the human person simply because they are
human.
As a consequence, every
single day decisions are being made for our medically defenseless to be
barbarically starved and dehydrated to death. Not to mention the
offensive claim that to slowly dehydrate persons to death over a period of
weeks is "an act of compassion;" that they are somehow experiencing
death in a dignified way. This is not compassion. This is not
love. This is intentionally killing, and in the most undignified way.
Recently, Germany made
the decision to inaugurate a memorial for the people with physical and mental
disabilities who, because of their disabilities, were killed by the Nazis after
their lives were deemed "worthless." Estimates are that over
200,000 were killed.
Perhaps we should
consider erecting one here in the United States.
Bobby Schindler is Executive Director of The
Terri Schiavo Life and Hope Network. The preceding is an article that
appeared in lifeandhope, the publication of the Terri Schiavo Life and Hope
Network, Volume 6 / 2nd Edition / www.lifeandhope.com, pgs. 4 - 5. Please
visit www.lifeandhope.com.
'Sadly, these are just a few more
recent examples of the life-threatening prejudices plaguing the disability
community and countless others who are medically vulnerable. Indeed, this
terrible toll does not arise in a cultural vacuum, but reflects attitudes that
assume dead is better than disabled.'
Posted for no financial
consideration whatsoever! Please spread the word! Jesus is the Word
of GOD!
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