Greetings My Friend,
As a person of faith in Jesus I find it difficult to ask how to cope with Parkinson's using my faith. I saw a lady who was searching for the reasons about her mental anguish along with her PD symptoms, I am sure my answer was deleted a couple of times. One time she was in so much spiritual pain I mentioned she should open her Bible, start reading it. I could have answered in her inbox although, I felt there may be others who are also searching. Many times when we are struck with hard to accept facts we find a need to turn to Jesus. Another time I told her I was praying in the name of Jesus and I am fairly sure this was deleted as well. I know there is a Buddhist in the group because when I told him I would pray to Jesus he mentioned that many people of many faiths tell him they pray for him. I thought saying I was praying for people meant to Jesus although many people pray to other gods than the one true God so I started saying I was praying to Jesus. I need my faith as I face my illness, it gives me the strength to handle the day to day struggles of life of my disease. As a believer I also want to share to hope of Jesus especially in times of great stress. Junior tells me I could keep mentioning Jesus until I get blocked from the sight, my thought is I would like the information I can get in regards to PD, real life situations makes it easier than reading through a ton of dry technical talk. I have also found some friends in the groups, some are followers of Jesus as well so we are able to talk off of the help group site. As I face my disease, daily life struggles I also want to share what I learn, if others are offended by my faith, my politics I find I no longer want to worry about stepping on someone's toes because it offends them. For sometime now I find I am rather offended by what by what I can't say, by what others said to me so I now want to say what I want to say. I feel I have connected a bit with all of those people who have wanted a change, knew we were being fed hogwash even though they were promising us what we wanted to hear. I also am hearing from older people who feel there aren't many years left so they want to say what they want to say. Many of us have come back to the faith we grew up with in the Christian nation we grew up in so we are fighting hard to get it back. I have a progressive disease, it may take many years for all of the stages of PD to progress, still my faith is what keeps me getting up in the morning, living my life as best as my body will let me, I learn all I can about how to be proactive with my disease much of my learning comes from my Savior, He will point me to short articles to read, sometimes I am directed to the Bible where I learn how good olive oil is for me or I grasp that generations of people lived without toothpaste so Jesus points me to do a search for ways to make my own toothpaste, even chewing on whole cloves can help clean my teeth although at present I brush them with baking soda and hydrogen peroxide which has whitened my teeth, I have had no cavities so Jesus has shown me that I don't need all the chemicals that is found in most everything we eat, drink. I can only do this in faith. May God bless you and keep you make His face shine on you. Love Janet
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