Dearest Friends,
Today I want you to hug and kiss your loved ones. Set aside the stress and the business that is your life and love and love and love them up.
Today I turned on the webcam of my friend Brenda D. She's at UCSF with Graft vs. Host disease of the lungs. She's fighting. She's a fighter. She's going to beat this because I'm tired of those people I love dying.
Bren, I'm not going to let you go. Because I need you. I need to climb mountains and run races with me. I need to know about your life and your children for many years to come. I am selfish. I need to know your smiling face is out there somewhere. I need to know you will email me with your funny emails, your endless humor, and your loving support. I need you to be there when there are so few people that really understand what our lives are like. I'm selfish. You're my family and I need you to get better.
I am going to lend you the ass kicking powers of Uma. The lung capacity of Lance Armstrong. The humor of Chris Rock to get you through this. The hammer of Jim Adler (aka The Texas Hammer) to knock out anyone else that says "hang in there." And the strength of the strongest US Ass Kicking soldiers to get back to the business of being you. You have a whole long life ahead of you. Get to gettin' to it.
I pray for you. I pray for your body to heal. I pray like an insane woman. I pray for your doctors, nurses, pharmacists. For their knowledge, their magic, their power. I pray for your husband and his love. I pray for your friends, your two beautiful boys, and your family - with their gorgeous smiles. And I pray for your endurance, your perserverence. I *am* going to meet you someday.
So just snap out of it. C'mon Body O' Brenda.. Respond to this treatment. Use those healing powers. You've done it before. You're a badass. Use my prayers, please?
I love you, B. I really do. Heal. I know you can do this. As you have told me so many times. I know you can do this.
Be well. Be healed.
Much love. Much much love,
Debs
Dear God,
Please just back off this one for me. I'd really appreciate it right now. She has much more chocolate to eat in this lifetime.
Thankyakindly.
Love Always,
Debuma
aka The Debutaunt
How do you turn on a webcam? I'm praying for your friend sweetie.
Posted by: Traci at March 5, 2007 12:40 PMHopefully God will hear these prayers!
Posted by: Clarie at March 5, 2007 12:47 PMYou can do this Brenda
Being a preacher's kids doesn't gain you much ground in salvation (seeing that we're hellions beyond reclamation according to many accounts), but there are some interesting learning opportunities. One of these is in learning the Greek and Hebrew meanings of some of the words associated with theology.
So, the Bren lesson today is this: Pneuma is the word for being filled with the very breath or the Spirit of God. Pneuma - as in BREATH. So when I said my prayers this morning for Sister Bren (heh heh, hope she appreciates having an evil twin-Bren...lol), I asked that God would fill her lungs with his Spirit - for healing, for hope and for her to be given life. Not just for a quick kiss of uplifting but to breath her life back into every cell of her weakened lungs and fix them and fill them with life-giving, life-saving breath that will be miraculous.
My prayers are feeble without faith and even more so from the mouth and heart of a sinner but I do believe God hears a fervent prayer and I hope His glory is seen in this much-loved woman's life and healing.
Posted by: Bren/Cody'sMom at March 5, 2007 07:49 PMthank you for this. brenda will do this with God's power!
Posted by: miah at March 5, 2007 09:18 PMYour words could not be any more encouraging. You get this and you know exactly what it is about. There is spirit in, around and near you at all times.
I am emerging each day from that of a human to a compassionate and spiritual person. My breath is my life and it is fragile, yet it feels so strong and powerful.
Deb, you are one my hereos that provide me infinite strength. You are knowledgeable, funny and kickin it HARD! I cherish your words...OK time for bed now...i mean AGAIN....
Time for more healing, meditation and prayer soon for our entire family (it will be a new concept for us)
Posted by: Brenda at March 6, 2007 07:56 AMWE are doing this together. You have been my HERO and I'm so sorry we have not connected earlier, cuz i'm such a bad lurker. But, we are together now and I know you are with me everday now.
I've been more of a meditator than a prayer person, but I am starting to find power in prayer too. It has been foreign to me in my life, so now is the time to explore.
I love all that you have given people and I feel it in my bones, Deb.
WE ARE ROCK STARS...even if I have to crawl to the bathroom all day long. The couch is my new friend and I get to buy a new snazzy electric wheelchair soon....kids will just DIG that. Jarrett wants me to get a blue one...of course Trevor wants me to get a red one.
I think I'll get a tye dye one.
Love and peace to all of your supporters and lovers.
Brenda Donato
WE ARE ALIVE!
Posted by: Brenda at March 9, 2007 07:28 AM