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July 29, 2008

I enjoyed the workshop. It was good from beginning to end. I think I liked the graduation the most because it gave others a chance to see the workshop. I also enjoyed the music. I love experiencing your ministry. You are funny and animated. Never a dull moment. I didn't even want to go home Friday.

The music on the CD is awesome. Thanks. I thought there was one song on the CD. I was surprised to find an entire array of love songs. I always wanted someone to give me a tape of hand picked love songs just for me. It was so cool that it came through you. I was delighted. As for my testimony my healing didn’t end on Sunday. I have new developments!!!! But I will start with the workshop and attempt to be brief. Feel free to edit.

Robin Johnson had been asking me about attending the Richmond Healing workshop for a few weeks. I had not planned to attend. I did not feel that I needed any healing. Besides I had other business to take care of (tenants, stopping foreclosures, running my business...) and people counting on me to do so. But gosh, Robin woman is persistent!!!! I decided to attend the workshop and invest in myself.

One the first day of the workshop there was an exercise where everyone in the room was paired off (in groups of two) with another person in the room. I did not know the woman I was paired off with.  We didn't discuss much about ourselves or occupations before or after we paired off. I only shared with her that I didn't feel much during the little exercise. 

After the first night of the workshop I went home and became extremely ill.  I did not realize that I was experiencing a healing crisis. I was at home thinking, "Thanks God, I go to a healing workshop feeling great and I leave sick."

I returned to the workshop on day 2. It was a 12 hour day. There were several exercises. There was one exercise where we paired off in groups of four people.
Since workshop participants did not select the persons with whom they sat within the group of 4 people, I was surprised to find that the same woman with whom I paired off with on the first day of the workshop was in the new group with me on the 2nd day of the workshop.

During the session, I confided to the members of my small group of 4 people that for several years I had been hiding the fact that I had a disease for which doctors have no cure.  I did not know that the woman who I had been sitting with also had a secret.
I shared with the small group of 4 people that my immune system was attacking itself (my brain, central nervous system and reproductive organs). Doctors could only treat my symptoms but cannot cure the disease.  After years of mounting medical bills and no cure, I had given up and accepted the condition as being one I would just have to live with. Over the years, I have become good at hiding my condition. I normally don't discuss the condition. I had not planned to discuss it at the workshop either.  I only shared the condition so for the sake of the exercise. I shared with the small intimate group that there is a specialist in Philly who treats the condition but the waiting list to see the doctor is 2 years long. That's when the woman I had been sitting with confessed her secret. She was a doctor and had experience in treating people with my condition! I was floored. 

During the workshop whispering session she also whispered to me the connection between my inability to feel (as described in exercise #1 on day 1) and the auto immune disorder. Deep down I knew she was right. I had survived years of childhood sexual abuse by making myself numb, immune and detaching. Those defense mechanisms manifested at the cellular level as the "incurable" Auto Immune Disease.  

I love myself and I have the capacity to give love. And if I can give love then certainly I can open up the blocked channels to begin receiving love. Over the next several months I will be involved in a treatment program with the aid of the doctor to cure this disease. As we open up the channels to receive love we will also be treating the disorder with diet and exercise. I am soooooooo excited. I've already started. I came home from the workshop and told my closest friends, "I'mma ‘bout to get my health back and some GOOD LOVE too." That's a double whammy.  

It's been three days since the workshop and I am on a serious mission to get all the love I been missing. So everybody,  if you got some love for me, you can sing, it dance it, write it, shout it cook it, paint it, teach it, however you do what you do, just BRING ON THE LOVE!!!!!

Susan Smith

August 4, 2008

 

You had suggested that I find a support group that eats raw.    A group just started at OGOT. I didn't know they were starting a group. I went to OGOT this weekend and ended up at the first meeting for the group for people interested in eating raw!!!

 

October 13, 2008

 

UFBL is a phenomenal organization and has the most outstanding teachers in the United States. It is an honor for me to have been given the opportunity to minister Gods word in dance at OGOT.

Seeing Rev (Eric Ovid Donaldson) in his element and working the different circles was amazing. You glowed literally Rev. The posture and authority was wonderful to see.
 

LaVonne, I had an opportunity to see you working with all the different personalities and you get better and better, like grace personified.

After the session on Saturday, I had a breakthrough in my business and I ended up going back to VA.

Finally, it is worth repeating that since HW6 I have had virtually NO symptoms or incidence of the disease that I had come there with.

I say "virtually" because I had one episode 1 time on 1 day after the workshop...which is nothing compared to the past 4 years of silently living with the dis-ease every day and doctors telling me there was no cure.

Some of the people I met during the healing workshops have become good friends and supporters of the healing process...Marvin, Phyllis, Roshanne, Robin, Elizabeth...and the list goes on.

I cannot thank them nor you Rev and LaVonne enough for the work that you allow God to do through you.

I love you all.

Susan Smith
HW6 & 7

PS: Again I am (virtually) symptom free since the healing workshop. God is Good. And The UFBL Rocks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

February 15, 2009

 

Incurable Disease? No Please!