Cancer, The Crab

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This is a good typical representation of the Zodiac sign for Cancer – the Crab. In German the word is Crebb or “Crebbs,” and that is the word that is used in Germany for what we know in America as “Cancer.”

A question asked of “cancer” patients with increasing frequency is, “What is you pain level, on a scale between 0 and 10?”

The next question usually follows up with, Continue reading

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One Of The Battles In A War Of Many Fronts

divided house” This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law,” Galatians 5:16-18.

In this context we are touching on one of the battle fronts in this war between flesh and Spirit. Certainly this is an important part of the war, but not the front I have in mind for present exploration. Rather what I am thinking about and wanting to address in this post is the war that goes on between flesh and blood family members and the presence of the Spirit in our lives. Continue reading

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The Perfect Storm

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There are two word pictures, which have surfaced in these days of waiting between possible treatments:

The first has to do with “critical mass.” This is the concentration of radioactive material necessary for sustaining a nuclear reaction.

The second, the timing and circumstances of  “The Perfect Storm.”

We are presently in a waiting period, which is accompanied by two large tumors, each of which are large enough and aggressive enough to Continue reading

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