Luis Vas forwarded: > It all started with the healing that Sanfrancesco had done with a
> ten-year-old child who had been raped and shot and left to die in the > Congo where he had gone recently. Not only did the girl, who until > then had shunned humans, clung to Patrick, but the planeload of > American doctors who’d flown in for relief work had been stunned to > see that she had made a spontaneous and miraculous recovery. > > One of them was related to a cardinal at the Vatican and that’s how > the Pope heard about Patrick and invited him to be his personal guest > and address not only his highest conclave of cardinals, but also to > meet their Islamic equivalent in Turkey. ------------------------------------------- Luis, God does not direct disease or tragedy to certain people. People direct the 'negative energy' to themselves. Some knowingly take in disease as with those who inhale carcinogens and some get maladies just because science has not yet pinpointed the cause. Strangely enough, the two countries I love the most are the ones filled with magicians, mystics, transcendentals, etc. etc. who all claim they are capable of redirecting 'energy'. In Tanzania, such people sit under a magical baobab tree and do not move from that auspicious spot. Their counterparts in India (and elsewhere) have understood that it is much more lucrative for the magician to market himself to people who are beyond a one days walk from the magical spot. In other words, you don't have to come to us, we will come to you. As far as Popes are concerned, I have a new respect for the old German one. He seems to have a better understanding of how to direct the energy of 11 people towards the goal. Mervyn
