Comments on: ELLA TO BEGIN RADIATION 10/24 http://hope4ella.com/2010/10/ella-to-begin-radiation-1024/ Sun, 05 Jun 2011 04:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Karen http://hope4ella.com/2010/10/ella-to-begin-radiation-1024/comment-page-1/#comment-292 Karen Wed, 20 Oct 2010 15:11:08 +0000 http://hope4ella.com/?p=138#comment-292 Dear Glen - I in no way meant to offend you or suggest you find "God" in your circumstances, but I can see how it would come across that way. My only desire was that somehow you would be comforted as you had brought the subject of God into this blog and I had no idea it would be an unacceptable thing to include in my comments. I deeply apologise for any offense that I caused. I am a RN and work every day in the operating room. I do know first hand the debt we owe to the men and women whose brilliance and scientific breakthroughs, that were indeed often forged under incredibly difficult circumstances, religious persecution, and ridicule, continue to guide us today. Most importantly, my deepest apologies, I misunderstood and so wanted to somehow comfort you and did just the opposite. I am very sorry. Dear Glen – I in no way meant to offend you or suggest you find “God” in your circumstances, but I can see how it would come across that way. My only desire was that somehow you would be comforted as you had brought the subject of God into this blog and I had no idea it would be an unacceptable thing to include in my comments. I deeply apologise for any offense that I caused. I am a RN and work every day in the operating room. I do know first hand the debt we owe to the men and women whose brilliance and scientific breakthroughs, that were indeed often forged under incredibly difficult circumstances, religious persecution, and ridicule, continue to guide us today. Most importantly, my deepest apologies, I misunderstood and so wanted to somehow comfort you and did just the opposite. I am very sorry.

]]> By: admin http://hope4ella.com/2010/10/ella-to-begin-radiation-1024/comment-page-1/#comment-248 admin Sat, 16 Oct 2010 01:52:21 +0000 http://hope4ella.com/?p=138#comment-248 Karen, thank you for your kind words. I was raised in a religious home, I came to secular humanism after spending many years searching for proof of a divine creator, but instead only finding that we humans have incredible imaginations and that death is not easy for us to face, ever. If I were to believe that it was a divine creator who gave these scientists the knowledge and ability to remove Ella's tumor, and not the hundreds of years of practicing science and medicine, in the face of persecution from religious leaders, then I would also have to believe that this divine creator gave Ella this cancer and is right now torturing her and our family, for no reason. I certainly won't be forgetting logic and facts, and "finding" god, based on the ordeal I'm going through, in fact quite the opposite. We never give credit to all the scientists who died, bringing medicine and truth to the rest of us. Marie Curie is an excellent example, she died so that Ella could have a chance to live. I suggest you all go look up Marie Curie and thank her for the radiation treatment my daughter is about to receive that may cure her of this disease, that most of you think your god gave her. If god has a plan and knows all, then he knew she'd get brain cancer, not only that, he would've been the one who gave it to her! If christians aren't willing to donate money to Ella's medical fund, because our family trusts science more than we do a 2,000 year old story, then not only is that totally unchristian, but it just makes us more passionate about science. I would like to think that humans pull together in a time of crisis, to help one another because we're all human, not because of what religion we believe. I would help the chrstian parents of a child who was in Ella's same situation, because I'm a father, I'm a parent, I understand. All these beliefs we have, should be kept to ourselves and we should never discuss them in public. They are our personal beliefs, keep them personal. Then we could have a society based on human needs, helping one another and not asking for tithing in return or anything else. Just courtesy, kindness, and love. I won't ever stop being a secular humanist, and if Ella survives I will raise her to trust science and to appeciate the delicate world around us that gives us life. It doesn't mean I don't need help, help from chrstians, jews, muslims, buddists, hindus, native americans, and any human willing to extend their hand to me and my family. I will be indebted to you the rest of my life. Again, thank you for your kind words, but you never need to mention your god to say something nice to another person. Karen, thank you for your kind words. I was raised in a religious home, I came to secular humanism after spending many years searching for proof of a divine creator, but instead only finding that we humans have incredible imaginations and that death is not easy for us to face, ever. If I were to believe that it was a divine creator who gave these scientists the knowledge and ability to remove Ella’s tumor, and not the hundreds of years of practicing science and medicine, in the face of persecution from religious leaders, then I would also have to believe that this divine creator gave Ella this cancer and is right now torturing her and our family, for no reason. I certainly won’t be forgetting logic and facts, and “finding” god, based on the ordeal I’m going through, in fact quite the opposite.

We never give credit to all the scientists who died, bringing medicine and truth to the rest of us. Marie Curie is an excellent example, she died so that Ella could have a chance to live. I suggest you all go look up Marie Curie and thank her for the radiation treatment my daughter is about to receive that may cure her of this disease, that most of you think your god gave her. If god has a plan and knows all, then he knew she’d get brain cancer, not only that, he would’ve been the one who gave it to her!

If christians aren’t willing to donate money to Ella’s medical fund, because our family trusts science more than we do a 2,000 year old story, then not only is that totally unchristian, but it just makes us more passionate about science. I would like to think that humans pull together in a time of crisis, to help one another because we’re all human, not because of what religion we believe. I would help the chrstian parents of a child who was in Ella’s same situation, because I’m a father, I’m a parent, I understand.

All these beliefs we have, should be kept to ourselves and we should never discuss them in public. They are our personal beliefs, keep them personal. Then we could have a society based on human needs, helping one another and not asking for tithing in return or anything else. Just courtesy, kindness, and love.

I won’t ever stop being a secular humanist, and if Ella survives I will raise her to trust science and to appeciate the delicate world around us that gives us life.

It doesn’t mean I don’t need help, help from chrstians, jews, muslims, buddists, hindus, native americans, and any human willing to extend their hand to me and my family. I will be indebted to you the rest of my life. Again, thank you for your kind words, but you never need to mention your god to say something nice to another person.

]]> By: Karen http://hope4ella.com/2010/10/ella-to-begin-radiation-1024/comment-page-1/#comment-247 Karen Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:57:55 +0000 http://hope4ella.com/?p=138#comment-247 Hi Glen. I live in your community and have heard about Ella's battle and have been following her progress through your updates. I am praying for Ella and each member of your family. I am also praying for the medical teams assessing and caring for her round-the-clock. I cannot help but wonder if you haven't already seen the hand of God in the sheer beauty of your fearfully and wonderfully made daughter, in the outpouring of love and support you are experiencing, in the exquisite skill and courage of surgeons who have meticulously removed tumor cells from a most sensitve area fighting for a little girl they have just come to know (to name just a few ways that I believe God is showing up in your present circumstances). I am praying that you do see God's love and provision for you right now and that your heart will be calmed. Ella and each of your family are loved!! Your words are precious and your love for your daughter a tangible thing when I read your updates. Thank you for your honest words. Hi Glen. I live in your community and have heard about Ella’s battle and have been following her progress through your updates. I am praying for Ella and each member of your family. I am also praying for the medical teams assessing and caring for her round-the-clock. I cannot help but wonder if you haven’t already seen the hand of God in the sheer beauty of your fearfully and wonderfully made daughter, in the outpouring of love and support you are experiencing, in the exquisite skill and courage of surgeons who have meticulously removed tumor cells from a most sensitve area fighting for a little girl they have just come to know (to name just a few ways that I believe God is showing up in your present circumstances). I am praying that you do see God’s love and provision for you right now and that your heart will be calmed. Ella and each of your family are loved!! Your words are precious and your love for your daughter a tangible thing when I read your updates. Thank you for your honest words.

]]> By: Yasi http://hope4ella.com/2010/10/ella-to-begin-radiation-1024/comment-page-1/#comment-246 Yasi Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:50:31 +0000 http://hope4ella.com/?p=138#comment-246 Thank you so much for sharing your journey with us so honestly. Sending your family Love, Blessings, and Healing Energy. Your family is surrounded and held by infinite circles of support, seen and unseen. (SICS 1st grade parent) Thank you so much for sharing your journey with us so honestly. Sending your family Love, Blessings, and Healing Energy. Your family is surrounded and held by infinite circles of support, seen and unseen. (SICS 1st grade parent)

]]> By: Kathleen http://hope4ella.com/2010/10/ella-to-begin-radiation-1024/comment-page-1/#comment-241 Kathleen Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:49:25 +0000 http://hope4ella.com/?p=138#comment-241 we are all here...thinking of you, praying, feeling love and strength for ella and feeling hopeful that one day soon you will hear and see and hug each other again. it will happen. we are all here…thinking of you, praying, feeling love and strength for ella and feeling hopeful that one day soon you will hear and see and hug each other again. it will happen.

]]> By: Heather River http://hope4ella.com/2010/10/ella-to-begin-radiation-1024/comment-page-1/#comment-239 Heather River Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:30:32 +0000 http://hope4ella.com/?p=138#comment-239 Glen, I am also a stranger to you. Please know that people are out here that you may not even know sending you and Ella and your family so much love and support. Thank you for updating your blog and letting all of us in. I can only imagine how hard this is for you, please know you are not alone. I agree with Elise, Progress is happening! In love and belief. Heather Glen, I am also a stranger to you. Please know that people are out here that you may not even know sending you and Ella and your family so much love and support. Thank you for updating your blog and letting all of us in. I can only imagine how hard this is for you, please know you are not alone. I agree with Elise, Progress is happening!
In love and belief. Heather

]]> By: Michelle McDaid http://hope4ella.com/2010/10/ella-to-begin-radiation-1024/comment-page-1/#comment-230 Michelle McDaid Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:25:39 +0000 http://hope4ella.com/?p=138#comment-230 Glenn, I am a stranger to you and a fellow atheist but, if there is any kind of higher being, I am praying very hard to it/him/her for you to get everything you are so desperately hoping for - the love and support YOU need and, most importantly of all, a healthy Ella. Glenn, I am a stranger to you and a fellow atheist but, if there is any kind of higher being, I am praying very hard to it/him/her for you to get everything you are so desperately hoping for – the love and support YOU need and, most importantly of all, a healthy Ella.

]]> By: Sandi http://hope4ella.com/2010/10/ella-to-begin-radiation-1024/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Sandi Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:50:50 +0000 http://hope4ella.com/?p=138#comment-226 Glen, I'm so glad you dared Him. These three remain; faith, hope & love. And LOVE never fails. I believe. Peace to you and all your family. Glen, I’m so glad you dared Him. These three remain; faith, hope & love. And LOVE never fails.
I believe. Peace to you and all your family.

]]> By: Rochell http://hope4ella.com/2010/10/ella-to-begin-radiation-1024/comment-page-1/#comment-204 Rochell Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:00:00 +0000 http://hope4ella.com/?p=138#comment-204 Thank you for taking the time to write your blogs. I know how hard it is to tear yourself away from Ella, and how much harder it has to be to relieve everything again so that you can recant it all to the rest of us. Please know that I will help more when I am able, and I think about Ella several times a day, every day. Every bit of hope I can muster is for her recovery and health. You, Alycia, Deb and Mark are truly remarkable people to endure what you have with so much love for each other, and for going through everything you have with your jaws set and shoving through it to keep fighting toward hope and positivity. Thank you for taking the time to write your blogs. I know how hard it is to tear yourself away from Ella, and how much harder it has to be to relieve everything again so that you can recant it all to the rest of us.

Please know that I will help more when I am able, and I think about Ella several times a day, every day. Every bit of hope I can muster is for her recovery and health.

You, Alycia, Deb and Mark are truly remarkable people to endure what you have with so much love for each other, and for going through everything you have with your jaws set and shoving through it to keep fighting toward hope and positivity.

]]> By: Carol-Jean Boevers http://hope4ella.com/2010/10/ella-to-begin-radiation-1024/comment-page-1/#comment-202 Carol-Jean Boevers Tue, 12 Oct 2010 03:24:43 +0000 http://hope4ella.com/?p=138#comment-202 Glenn, thank you for your candid updates. In your helplessness, you help us, who are thinking of and worried about Ella, by keeping us posted about what is going on. I wish I had some magic words of wisdom to comfort you. But all I have is the warmth and love of my heart that I feel wrapping around you all whenever I read your blog or even think of Ella. Your connection to your daughter is strong and infinite. Even if she is not awake and you can't communicate with one another, the connection is just as true and just as valid as it ever was. She certainly must be feeling and benefitting from your untiring love. And around you are circles and more circles of love and support, even from people, such as our family, whom you don't even know. I hope that can be a small glimmer in this dark horror you are now experiencing. Sending you love and light, Carol-Jean Boevers (SICS 1st grade parent) Glenn, thank you for your candid updates. In your helplessness, you help us, who are thinking of and worried about Ella, by keeping us posted about what is going on. I wish I had some magic words of wisdom to comfort you. But all I have is the warmth and love of my heart that I feel wrapping around you all whenever I read your blog or even think of Ella. Your connection to your daughter is strong and infinite. Even if she is not awake and you can’t communicate with one another, the connection is just as true and just as valid as it ever was. She certainly must be feeling and benefitting from your untiring love. And around you are circles and more circles of love and support, even from people, such as our family, whom you don’t even know. I hope that can be a small glimmer in this dark horror you are now experiencing. Sending you love and light, Carol-Jean Boevers (SICS 1st grade parent)

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