Dear KKIM Family,
I am so sorry this will be short…my first meeting is at 6:30 this am………
We love you all and hope you have a great weekend in the Lord.
“A ruthless, sleepless, unsmiling concentration upon self……….is the mark of Hell, not Heaven.” C.S. Lewis
Happy 35th Birthday to Phillip Miranda!
From Nik……….
Consider carefully the decisions you make at this time, for they will undoubtedly produce long-term consequences. Quiet your own soul, your mind and emotions, and allow your spirit to be influenced by My Spirit, says the Lord. If you will be sensitive to that still, small voice of wisdom, you will be directed to choose what is best for you and those around you. But, you must be still in order to perceive the influence of My Spirit.
Isaiah 30:21 Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” whenever you turn to the right hand or whenever you turn to the left.
From Karen……..
My Hope for a Better Country, by Karen Rowe
Is in God…
Living for Christ is a nicer way….
How would Jesus campaign?
I miss the old rule…In some way, it has been misplaced in that, it is okay to say bad things because others have set the trend.
If we just follow the trend leader…then who is leading the argument?
How IS peace found?
Accusations hurt someone.
How would we feel to have our picture slandered at every checkout across the Country?
What happens to trust in America when we are allowed to hurt people?
The world seems to have an attitude of “I can, so I do” and we all seem to be getting away with it or allowing it.
The scene is set to judge every time we read, look or listen to gossip and slander.
But have we ever stopped and wondered how bad words can hurt others?
…our spouse, a famous person, or an opponent; what about that stranger that is just doing their job and things didn’t go well for us…
How sweet it would be, if all would stop and just do as Jesus and turn the other cheek.
How about a kind word…joy would fill the air we breathe and love would return to be the gift that we give…it’s not money or a present…it is the love that we can share.
Why slander back? Just admit that it hurt, or ignore…either way the punches need to stop.
Whether in a marriage, a church or applying to lead our country…
It is a privilege to be loved and trusted and a joy to get along.
A fight will go no where, but spiral out of control.
Communicate with wisdom and let God mediate!
Tell me what you can do…I don’t need to hear your opinion of what the opponent has done. Expressing our opinion in a negative way directed toward someone is judging…
Didn’t God warn us that we need love, unity and forgiveness to survive?
My hope for a better Country is a Country that expresses and lives in the Peace of God.
Tell your spouse how you feel, but don’t strike a hurtful word, just because you feel the pain. Two pains do not heal…
Let go of the pain, hurt and past
Live in today with love, forgiveness and kindness.
With God at the center, our marriages will last, our country will flourish and our people will unite.
Let’s look at our self and not point our fingers.
Listen and learn…the other is speaking…there may be some wisdom that is missed because it is received in an angry way…Just listen and forgive…the American way.
God is the leader! The United States of America was founded that way!
Unity in God has united the states.
Unity in God unites us in marriage.
Our Children are watching, we can teach them better and it all starts with our home.
Unity in God unites the people…
We the people of the United States of America …In order to form a more perfect Union …
Let’s use God’s wisdom and keep it that way!
Tell me about you and what you can do
Tell me the truth and don’t try to hurt another along the way…that just makes me sad.
My hope is in Jesus, so I have hope for our Country…we just need to unite under God.
In Jesus’ Name I pray for peace, joy and happiness in one Nation Under God…
Love in Christ,
Karen Rowe
and From Dr. Deb……….
Dear Walking in The Way Listeners:
Just a couple more weeks and the elections will be over. While everyone is focused on the national elections, there is a race here in Bernalillo County that is of interest to many. A couple of weeks ago Lisa Torraco joined me for a conversation about her campaign for District Attorney in Bernalillo County. This Saturday Kari Brandenburg will join me to talk about her campaign and bid for re-election. This will be a great chance to find out more about the office of District Attorney and its importance to Bernalillo County. If you have questions about the District Attorney’s office and how it serves the citizens of Bernalillo County, this will be the time to call in. Ms. Brandenburg has been serving us for eight years. Her insight into the criminal justice system and where it needs to head in the future will be important for us to know. Listen in this Saturday morning at 8:05-9:00 AM and call in with your questions or comments. This will be your chance before the election to hear from Kari Brandenburg about her plans for the Office of District Attorney.
“Walking in The Way” airs on KKIM-AM1000 in Albuquerque and FM94.7 in the Santa Fe/northern NM area every Saturday morning from 8:05-9:00 AM. You can also listening to the show on live streaming at http://www.mykkim.com/. To call in, the local phone number is 998-0021 and toll-free is 1-866-523-5008. For more information about upcoming shows and events, visit http://www.walkingintheway.com/.
Stay tuned for announcements about the shows in November.
Blessings to you,
Dr. Deb
Deborah Gunderman, D.Min.
Walking in The Way
It makes the difference in life!
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505-385-7063
WOW! Read this!
Doctors often put their trust in placebos
By GARDINER HARRIS, New York Times
October 23, 2008
If your doctor has prescribed antibiotics for the flu or told you to try B12 vitamins for fatigue, those treatments were probably a placebo — an unproven therapy offered with the hope you’d feel better if you took something.
Treatment with placebos is far more common than you might think, according to a new national survey in which 46 to 58 percent of U.S. physicians admitted using placebos regularly. Only 5 percent said they tell patients explicitly that they are doing so.
The results trouble medical ethicists, who say more research is needed to determine whether doctors must deceive patients in order for placebos to work.
The survey was sent to 1,200 internists and rheumatologists nationwide; 679 responded. In answering three questions as part of the larger survey, about half reported recommending placebos regularly. Surveys in Denmark, Israel, Britain, Sweden and New Zealand have found like results.
The most common placebos the U.S. doctors reported using were headache pills and vitamins, but a significant number also reported prescribing antibiotics and sedatives. Although these drugs, contrary to the usual definition of placebos, are not inert, doctors reported using them for their effect on patients’ psyches, not their bodies.
In most cases, doctors who recommended placebos described them to patients as “a medicine not typically used for your condition but might benefit you,” the survey found. Only 5 percent described the treatment to patients as “a placebo.”
The study is published in BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal. One of its authors, Franklin Miller, was among the medical ethicists who said they were troubled by the results.
“This is the doctor-patient relationship, and our expectations about being truthful about what’s going on and about getting informed consent should give us pause about deception,” said Miller, director of the research ethics program in the department of bioethics at the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. William Schreiber, an internist in Louisville, Ky., at first said he did not believe the survey’s results, because, he said, few doctors he knew routinely prescribed placebos. But when asked how he treated fibromyalgia or other conditions that many doctors suspected were largely psychosomatic, Schreiber changed his mind.
“The problem is that most of those people are very difficult patients, and it’s a whole lot easier to give them something like a big dose of Aleve,” he said. “Is that a placebo treatment? Depending on how you define it, I guess it is.”
Controlled clinical trials have hinted that placebos may have powerful effects. Some 30 to 40 percent of depressed patients who are given placebos get better, a treatment effect that antidepressants barely top.
Despite much attention given to the power of placebos, basic questions about them remain unanswered: Are placebos any better than no treatment at all? Must people be deceived into believing that a treatment is active for a placebo to work?
Other physician surveys have found that most doctors believe that giving placebos can have a positive therapeutic effect, said Dr. Greg Plotnikoff, medical director of the Penny George Institute for Health and Healing, an integrative medical center at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.
He said the study published today was focused on whether doctors deceive their patients when they give placebos.
“There is no need to deceive a patient,” he said. “It’s about the human relationship.”
Providing a treatment that may not be specifically appropriate to a condition is part of the art of medicine, he said. And patients who believe their doctors or nurses care about them “is a powerful predictor of positive outcomes,” he said. “I challenge this idea that all therapeutic power is in the pill or procedure.”
The Chicago Tribune and staff writer Josephine Marcotty contributed to this report
God Bless you all and please keep praying for each other and are families, Dewey Sharon and family
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