Comments on: Hope Enters the Heart http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/ Listen to stories on anything from honeymoons to WWII, from award-winning journalists to first-time writers alike, from anywhere in the world. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:09:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Sandy Radoy http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-44789 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:14:43 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-44789 In this life there are no accidents. We are created by God, for relationship with him and our education on this earth is to learn his purpose for us and to fulfill it so that we can be all that he designed us to be. Ed is the embodiment of faith, hope, love, generosity, strength, and kindness. He has accomplished an education from lifes experience that he shares and uses to help others traveling through this world to find their place and peace through Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE, ONLY BELIEVE! I had the pleasure of organizing and preparing a small dinner party for Ed last night. It was a blessed evening of good food, wonderful friends and conversations of substance that still fill my heart this morning. I had just met Ed a few weeks previous in our local health food store and was very impressed with his knowledge and willingness to help everyone that came into the store. I have been involved in a healthy lifestyle, studying alternative methods for over 35 years and it is always a blessing to aquaint myself with anyone who can educate me further. Ed has the ability to integrate body, mind and spirit and as a result he is a bright light in an often dark world. My little dinner was in appreciation for Ed helping me with an eye infection. It was late in the afternoon on Satuday. My eyes were swelling shut and had a discharge. I have not been to a conventional doctor in a couple of years as I am generally quite comfortable taking care of almost any issue that I encounter. I believe that I contacted a bacterial infection working out at my Gym. At any rate, the store was about to close and I really did not feel comfortable to drive with my eyes. Ed not only delivered the remedy to my home, (which was out of his way) but showed me how to use it and put the drops in my eyes before leaving. He brought a bottle of colloidal silver which will now be a staple at my home. It worked remarkably well, saved me a trip to our emergency room and added another piece of valuable knowledge to a lifetime of natural health endeavors. He would not take anything, saying that the Lord gave him the knowledge freely and he felt that he should share it with a similiar generosity. Dinner was a small payment for his efforts and honestly I felt that I benefited more from our conversation and enjoyable evening. I received more than I gave! There are Blessings to be had every day of our lives. We just have to be aware of everything around us, listen when the Lord speaks to our hearts, be available when we are called on to fulfill his purpose for us on this earth and then give thanks. Thank-you Ah-de for listening to our maker and sharing the love. You have found your purpose and are collecting your crowns. In this life there are no accidents. We are created by God, for relationship with him and our education on this earth is to learn his purpose for us and to fulfill it so that we can be all that he designed us to be.

Ed is the embodiment of faith, hope, love, generosity, strength, and kindness. He has accomplished an education from lifes experience that he shares and uses to help others traveling through this world to find their place and peace through Jesus Christ, Our Lord and Savior. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE, ONLY BELIEVE!

I had the pleasure of organizing and preparing a small dinner party for Ed last night. It was a blessed evening of good food, wonderful friends and conversations of substance that still fill my heart this morning.

I had just met Ed a few weeks previous in our local health food store and was very impressed with his knowledge and willingness to help everyone that came into the store. I have been involved in a healthy lifestyle, studying alternative methods for over 35 years and it is always a blessing to aquaint myself with anyone who can educate me further. Ed has the ability to integrate body, mind and spirit and as a result he is a bright light in an often dark world. My little dinner was in appreciation for Ed helping me with an eye infection. It was late in the afternoon on Satuday. My eyes were swelling shut and had a discharge. I have not been to a conventional doctor in a couple of years as I am generally quite comfortable taking care of almost any issue that I encounter. I believe that I contacted a bacterial infection working out at my Gym. At any rate, the store was about to close and I really did not feel comfortable to drive with my eyes. Ed not only delivered the remedy to my home, (which was out of his way) but showed me how to use it and put the drops in my eyes before leaving. He brought a bottle of colloidal silver which will now be a staple at my home. It worked remarkably well, saved me a trip to our emergency room and added another piece of valuable knowledge to a lifetime of natural health endeavors. He would not take anything, saying that the Lord gave him the knowledge freely and he felt that he should share it with a similiar generosity. Dinner was a small payment for his efforts and honestly I felt that I benefited more from our conversation and enjoyable evening. I received more than I gave!

There are Blessings to be had every day of our lives. We just have to be aware of everything around us, listen when the Lord speaks to our hearts, be available when we are called on to fulfill his purpose for us on this earth and then give thanks. Thank-you Ah-de for listening to our maker and sharing the love. You have found your purpose and are collecting your crowns.

]]> by: Sunil Aggarwal http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-41358 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:45:11 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-41358 Thank you, Charmie, for sharing this with me. It brought unshed tears of joy out inside me. I was feeling joyous about realizing the importance of the very simple, basic necessities and at the same time a bit of shame at worrying about all else. Thank you, Charmie, for sharing this with me. It brought unshed tears of joy out inside me. I was feeling joyous about realizing the importance of the very simple, basic necessities and at the same time a bit of shame at worrying about all else.

]]> by: Warren Petoskey http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-33620 Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:45:40 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-33620 I am the oldest in our family. I was abused from the time I was three years old by my father and put in foster care at fourteen. I grew up thinking I was adopted because I didn't think anyone could treat one of their own children the way I was treated. I have one brother and two sisters. When I was put in foster care I attended the same school they did. When I went to greet my brother he looked at me sternly and told me that Dad said we aren't to talk to you anymore because you are not our brother. All my life my greatest fear has been rejection and so I tried to counter balance it all and then, I discovered the history of the boarding schools and my father and grandfather mirrored this experience. My father and I visited about these things and he began his healing and recovery. I was fifty-four years old when I heard my father say for the first time, "I love you, son." Historical trauma, the boarding schools, orphanages and foster care system we experienced has deposited a residue in our lives as Native people, Dr. Eduardo Duran coined as "psychecide." We have a mortality rate 300 per cent higher than any other ethnic population. We die in unprecedented numbers because of suicide, diabetes, crime and spousal and child abuse. It is time now for us to be able to live. If it had not been for the help of the Creator and the gathering of knowledge concerning our history I would still be an alcoholic. I have been clean and whole for nearly forty years. I am the oldest in our family. I was abused from the time I was three years old by my father and put in foster care at fourteen. I grew up thinking I was adopted because I didn’t think anyone could treat one of their own children the way I was treated. I have one brother and two sisters. When I was put in foster care I attended the same school they did. When I went to greet my brother he looked at me sternly and told me that Dad said we aren’t to talk to you anymore because you are not our brother. All my life my greatest fear has been rejection and so I tried to counter balance it all and then, I discovered the history of the boarding schools and my father and grandfather mirrored this experience. My father and I visited about these things and he began his healing and recovery. I was fifty-four years old when I heard my father say for the first time, “I love you, son.” Historical trauma, the boarding schools, orphanages and foster care system we experienced has deposited a residue in our lives as Native people, Dr. Eduardo Duran coined as “psychecide.” We have a mortality rate 300 per cent higher than any other ethnic population. We die in unprecedented numbers because of suicide, diabetes, crime and spousal and child abuse. It is time now for us to be able to live. If it had not been for the help of the Creator and the gathering of knowledge concerning our history I would still be an alcoholic. I have been clean and whole for nearly forty years.

]]> by: Kathy http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-5970 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:12:27 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-5970 Thank you for this story. Your experience rejuvensted me and gave me hope, too. Thank you! Thank you for this story. Your experience rejuvensted me and gave me hope, too. Thank you!

]]> by: Zelda http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-1299 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:45:21 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-1299 Oh my goodness, I will never say \"Poor me\" again! I only went to 14 different schools, not 17. I often had to sleep on the floor, but never on a bed of coal. And I always had some kind of building to live in, never just a car. But yet, I am envious of Ah-de, because he found hope and an appreciation of small things. I felt hopeless and longed for big things. I wish I could clip out this beautiful, inspiring story, put it in a time capsule, and send it back to teen-age me. Maybe then I could have made more out of less, instead of less out of more. More or less... Oh my goodness, I will never say \”Poor me\” again! I only went to 14 different schools, not 17. I often had to sleep on the floor, but never on a bed of coal. And I always had some kind of building to live in, never just a car. But yet, I am envious of Ah-de, because he found hope and an appreciation of small things. I felt hopeless and longed for big things. I wish I could clip out this beautiful, inspiring story, put it in a time capsule, and send it back to teen-age me. Maybe then I could have made more out of less, instead of less out of more. More or less…

]]> by: Charmie http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-1296 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:26:23 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-1296 Thank you, Suneet. Keep praying, stay strong and be hopeful, even while learning all the facts. Thank you, Suneet.

Keep praying, stay strong and be hopeful, even while learning all the facts.

]]> by: Suneet Kaur http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-1150 Sun, 24 Dec 2006 10:19:30 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-1150 Hi, Your story is really a very touching story and a story which we in India often hears, the tragedy of the people broken from poverty or the stories of the people who are living below poverty line and are struggling to meet two ends meal a day. I am often disheartened by the extent of miseries surrounding us but if there is a life there is a hope and itis a hope that allows us to see our tomorrow. With this I wish you all A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND wishes for good and happy days ahead Hi,

Your story is really a very touching story and a story which we in India often hears, the tragedy of the people broken from poverty or the stories of the people who are living below poverty line and are struggling to meet two ends meal a day. I am often disheartened by the extent of miseries surrounding us but if there is a life there is a hope and itis a hope that allows us to see our tomorrow.

With this I wish you all A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND wishes for good and happy days ahead

]]> by: Cantiq http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-1138 Sat, 23 Dec 2006 13:10:24 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-1138 A very touching life story and I cried as I read. God always spring us a surprise when we most needed help. The author had to think and act for his father who is already helpless in that desperate situation. That was a really tough experience to go through for a teenager. A very touching life story and I cried as I read. God always spring us a surprise when we most needed help. The author had to think and act for his father who is already helpless in that desperate situation. That was a really tough experience to go through for a teenager.

]]> by: paul kozlowicz http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-1068 Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:40:15 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-1068 I am one of Ed's clients. In our conversations we agree that these experiences are parts of our character development. Ed's mission is the love and care of all God's creatures. I wait for more of his parables. I am one of Ed’s clients. In our conversations we agree that these experiences are parts of our character development. Ed’s mission is the love and care of all God’s creatures. I wait for more of his parables.

]]> by: emma http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-1018 Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:35:25 +0000 http://www.commonties.com/blog/2006/12/18/the-tale-of-a-cherokee/#comment-1018 What a wonderful memory! Yes, as I read it I saw the semblance of tradition all those years ago. God was watching over you and when you asked, He gave, through the kindness of strangers. How strong you all were, how devoted to one another. Thank you for sharing this story and I too will pray for those that helped you. Merry Christmas! What a wonderful memory! Yes, as I read it I saw the semblance of tradition all those years ago. God was watching over you and when you asked, He gave, through the kindness of strangers. How strong you all were, how devoted to one another. Thank you for sharing this story and I too will pray for those that helped you. Merry Christmas!

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