Phyllis, I will keep you in my prayers. I am a firm believer we all go to a better place and will keep your cousin and your friend in my prayers as well. I have no doubt you have the strength you need to get through these trying times. Take care for now. --- On Fri, 10/1/10, Phyllis Eyre <pweyre@xxxxxxx> wrote: From: Phyllis Eyre <pweyre@xxxxxxx> Subject: [women_of_phoenix] Re: (no subject) To: women_of_phoenix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 3:42 PM Sharon, it is so great to meet a friend who is a believer that God loves us all and wants us to be happy. For that reason I am asking you to keep me in your prayers this next week. Tuesday and Wednesday of this week I have lost a cousin to cancer and a friend to complications of lupus and RA. My cousin was 58 and my friend was in her early 40's. Thankfully both of them know the Lord and will be waiting for me when it is my trun to go home. I am sad that they are gone from this earth but thankful neither of them is still suffering. Thanks for your notes and messages of encouragement and for being part of women_of_phoenix. Take care. On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Sharon Gillam <sgillam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: yes, exactly! --- On Fri, 10/1/10, Phyllis Eyre <pweyre@xxxxxxx> wrote: From: Phyllis Eyre <pweyre@xxxxxxx> Subject: [women_of_phoenix] Re: (no subject) To: women_of_phoenix@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Friday, October 1, 2010, 3:10 PM Thank Sharon. As we learned the song as children: THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF MINE...I'M GONNA LET IT SHINE!!! SHINE with me. On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Sharon Gillam <sgillam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. -- Marianne Williamson