WORLD ME & FM PRAYER and MEDITATION DAY

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World M.E. & F.M. Prayer and Meditation Day
(affectionately known as the 'time2link')

a global multi-faith event, supporting those with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome,Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome, Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia Syndrome and related or accompanying conditions...for example Myofascial Pain Syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivities & Chemical Injury

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There are two days in every week that we should not worry about, two days that should be kept free from fear and apprehension.

One is yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed, forever beyond our control.

All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed. Nor can we erase a single word we've said - yesterday is gone!

The other day we shouldn't worry about is tomorrow, with its impossible adversaries, its burden, its hopeful promise and poor performance. Tomorrow is beyond our control.

Tomorrow's sun will rise either in splendour or behind a mask of clouds - but it will rise. And until it does, we have no stake in tomorrow, for it is yet unborn.

This leaves only one day - today. Any person can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when we add the burdens of yesterday and tomorrow that we break down.

It is not the experience of today that drives people mad - it is the remorse of bitterness for something which happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may bring.

Let us, therefore, live one day at a time!

A selection of current e-petitions targeting health & social issues, as featured on the official website of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Office http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/

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URGENT! Major Online Petition – approx 16,000 signatures to date, but thousands more are needed if the Government are to listen…

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to recognise the vital support that Attendance Allowance (AA) and Disability Living Allowance (DLA) provide to disabled people, and to ensure that these benefits are secured and are not removed as part of any future reform of the social care system in England.

 Submitted by Peter Hand of Mencap
Deadline to sign up by: 07 December 2009

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/AttendanceA/

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2 ATTENTION ME/CFS/CFIDS PATIENTS...
A recently identified retrovirus called XMRV has been linked to ME/CFS. Published findings report that 95% of ME/CFS patients tested posItive for XMRV! To read more visit http://www.mefmaction.net/Portals/0/docs//Retrovirus95-Wh.pdf
and please sign the petition below.....

We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to provide funding to research further and better particulars of the breakthrough in the understanding of chronic fatigue Syndrome/M.E.

Scientists say they have made a dramatic breakthrough in understanding the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome – a debilitating condition affecting 250,000 people in Britain which for decades has defied a rational medical explanation. The study, published in the journal Science, shows that the virus, called murine leukaemia virus-related virus (XMRV), was found in 68 of 101 patients from around the US with chronic fatigue syndrome. This compared with just eight of 218 healthy "controls" drawn at random from the same parts of the US, the scientists said. XMRV was originally found in men suffering from prostate cancer. The discovery of XMRV in two major diseases, prostate cancer and now chronic fatigue syndrome, is very exciting. If cause-and-effect is established, there would be a new opportunity for prevention and treatment of these diseases

Submitted by Joe Ennis
Deadline to sign up by: 12 October 2010

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/CFSresearch/#detail
 

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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to oppose the adoption of the Codex Alimentarius (WHO/UN) proposals for imposing agro chemical use on all farmers, including Organic farmers, as well as restricting nutritional & herbal supplements. More details

Submitted by Mr Jeremy Friar
Deadline to sign up by: 09 December 2009

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/CodexAlimentarus/

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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Increase UK Central Government Support for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). More details

Submitted by Professor Joseph Chikelue Obi 
Deadline to sign up by: 26 March 2010

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/CAMSupport/#detail

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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to push for more increased monetary funding and party backing and full awareness into finding more suitable, better effective and healthier treatment options for invisible, multi symptomed and painful conditions like Fibromyalgia, M.E. and many other of these non terminal but crippling Invisible medical conditions, especially for those severely and very severely affected by them. People who have these invisible conditions are often living in such agony/exhaustion etc..., with little or no effective treatments and the side effects of these treatments, regularly causing such a very poor quality of life, so much so it surely could be called cruel. More details

Submitted by Mrs Millard
Deadline to sign up by: 02 March 2010

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/invismedcondtns/

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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister that Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) be also formally recognised as a distinct clinical entity in the United Kingdom. More details

Will a great flood occur in the period surrounding December 2012, as predicted in the Mayan prophecy? 

From GENESIS 9: 8-17
 ⁸ Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him: ⁹ "I now establish my covenant with you and with your descendants after you ¹⁰ and with every living creature that was with you—the birds, the livestock and all the wild animals, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature on earth. ¹¹ I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."

 ¹² And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: ¹³ I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. ¹⁴ Whenever I bring clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds, ¹⁵ I will remember my covenant between me and you and all living creatures of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life. ¹⁶ Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth."

 ¹⁷ So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the covenant I have established between me and all life on the earth."

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A time2link fact:
Directly after I 'received' the Divine message conveying the idea for the World M.E. & F.M. Prayer and Meditation Day, I opened my eyes and the first thing I saw was a double rainbow in the sky!

Image: 'Landschaft mit dem Dankopfer Noahs' by Joseph Anton Koch 1803.
Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License

A well loved hymn many can remember from their childhoods...

CLICK LEFT CORNER ARROW TO PLAY
!Avoid center arrow - it will whisk you away to youtube website!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9mvrkQbzgc
 

Autumn Days
by Estelle White

 ⁵Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. ⁶Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. ⁷And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.  

Observing the International Day of Peace 2009

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Send Thy peace, O Lord, which is perfect and everlasting,
    That our souls may radiate peace.
Send Thy peace, O Lord, that we may think, act and speak,
    Hamoniously.
Send Thy peace, O Lord, that we may be contented and
    Thankful for Thy bountiful gifts.
Send Thy peace, O Lord, that amidst our worldly strife we
    may enjoy Thy bliss.
Send Thy peace, O Lord, that we may endure all, tolerate all
    In the thought of Thy grace and mercy.
Send Thy peace, O lord, that our lives may become a divine
    vision, and in Thy light all darkness may vanish.
Send Thy peace, O Lord, our Father and Mother, that we
    Thy children on earth may all unite in one family.