Re: Why Do I Not See My Own Messages?

2006-05-15 Thread Don Calkins
Title: Re: Why Do I Not See My Own Messages? At 11:33 AM -0700 5/13/06, Tim Nolan wrote:   >Could your preferences or the settings of the list have been altered?   That could be the reason.  How do I see my list preferences or settings?   Go to http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/login/ Enter y

Re: How to know if your prayers are being answered

2006-05-15 Thread Dean Betts
Will your email allow you to request a delivery receipt?   First, Will someone please let me know whether this gets posted to the bahai-st list.  The list never lets me see my own posts, so I never know if my note got through unless someone responds.       The inform

How to know if your prayers are being answered

2006-05-15 Thread Tim Nolan
First, Will someone please let me know whether this gets posted to the bahai-st list.  The list never lets me see my own posts, so I never know if my note got through unless someone responds.   David,   My experience is that if I pray to be given something, or for something to happen, I a

Re: How to know if your prayers are being answered

2006-05-15 Thread SKYGRAM
David, My first response to your question would be to say that were my prayers answered I would suddenly discover that I could buy a new car. Or that I would find myself being released on my own recognizance. No money down. On the other hand to reply to your query, I have prayed for God's help o

Wish me luck

2006-05-15 Thread Scott Saylors
I have recently finished a novel and am making the rounds of agents and publishers, trying to shop it.   It's set 600 years in the future and makes oblique references to the principles of the faith.   Regards, Scott     The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments the

Re: How to know if your prayers are being answered

2006-05-15 Thread smaneck
Dear David, I think first off, it is important to recognize the supplication (asking God for stuff) is the lowest level of prayer. Not that you shouldn't do it, but whether you get what you ask for is not a measure of the efficacy of prayer. The real measure of the efficacy of prayer is does

How to know if your prayers are being answered

2006-05-15 Thread David Friedman
For most of my life I have prayed.  During that time I have had faith that the prayer has been working.  Putting faith aside, however, I would have to admit I have no evidence, strong or even weak, that the prayer's were being answered.  Put it this way: everything that has happened has been

Help with source please

2006-05-15 Thread M Chase
On page 90 of A. Khursheed's Science and Religion: Towards the Restoration of an Ancient Harmony (OneWorld, 1987), he quotes Abdul-Baha in a passage that begins and ends as follows: "Moses taught that the world . . . used in their campaign against religion and the Bible." Does anyone o