Most of us only get to know each other through our writing and opinions. Sometimes it gives us a stronger sense of knowing than many of those that we term our friends.
Meteor Blades is one of those that I have got to know over a few months for whom I feel great respect and friendship. I am sure that I am echoing what many of you share if I simply repost this notice of a difficult time that he is facing.
“From ePluribus Media
We don’t know the specific details, but Meteor Blades’ wife and sister-in-law have been in a serious automobile accident.
Their injuries are challenging. There were fatalities in the other car involved.
We know how much Meteor Blades means to this community, and we thought everyone might like to send some good energy his way.
Please express your best wishes and love to him via comments to this diary and we will save it for him. He can read it when he has the time and energy to focus. Let’s keep his email box open for his family and the business of healing.
SusanG and I will start.
Our hearts go out to you and your family, Meteor Blades. We hope for a full recovery. If there is anything we, as a community, can do to help you and your family, just let us know and it will be done.”
Dear Lord,
Please be with all those involved in this terrible collision. Lord, please hold their families in Your loving embrace as we would if we could be there with them. Heal those who were injured. Comfort the families of those who experienced loss.
Lord be with those we love and those we do not know.
In His name we pray.
Ben and Christine.
Amen.
Many here and at DKos are concerned, but I haven’t seen any new news since the initial posting about the accident. Many thoughts and warm wishes to MB and his family . . .
May peace surround and comfort you.
My thoughts and best wishes are with you and your family, with hopes for a speedy recovery.
Can’t imagine anyone in the online community more worthy of all of out thoughts, prayers if you wish.
I will keep them in my thoughts, and hope that they are recovering and will be good as new soon!
I am saying the 23rd Psalm for this family.
Our thoughts and prayers and with you all, MB, especially for your wife and sister-in-law. God bless you always.
It’s as if Meteor Blades can’t catch a break! All my love and sympathy to him and his family at this difficult time.
My goodness, if there’s anyone who has been around the block and been challenged and refined by those challenges in their life, it is definitely MB.
They say the Lord doesn’t give us burdens we can’t carry, but this is a tough one. All my intentions this pre-dawn morning are that everyone involved will be healed.
Pax unto MB’s family
I pray for strength for you all in this time. May you feel the healing energies sent.
I send one of my Angels to you, to help in this time of need. Recieve, and use, with love.
I have been there. I learned what faith is there. Not religion, but accepting having no control over the future. Control came from those who cared, in their thoughts and hopes, their prayers and wants, the profession of nurses and doctors committed to their craft. And in this I surfaced. In so, I do for you, and for those who are important to you. I know how hard this is…
well obviously I normally don’t have much problem thinking of things to say or opinions to offer and I type really fast so time isn’t the problem here but I’m at a loss.
I saw this thread a few times and my one comment at dkos is about all I can muster and what is there to say but good luck and we love you?
But I wanted to say something again because it’s terribly sad news and it’s painful to think about and I don’t know all the details so all I can be is scared for Meteor Blade and I am, but at least I can express it. While it can’t accomplish what needs to be accomplished, only doctors and the healing process can… I do feel I owe Meteor all of the support and good wishes and atheistical prayers and spiritual charms I can muster for his family.
I’m speaking in third person because I don’t know Meteor will read this having more pressing things… but if you do read it Meteor: as you know we love you and by extension your family and may fate give your family good and speedy recoveries.
I hope your family the best luck possible Meteor.
!!!! 🙁
I’m never very eloquent when it comes to these things, so I’ll just say: MB, you’re a good guy and it sucks that this happened. I hope for the best for you and your family.
Nothing more can be said than that the thoughts of the entire community are with you and your family, praying for a complete and speedy recovery.
We also mourn for the families of those who have suffered a loss in this tragic event.
Oseh shalom bim’romav, hu ya’aseh shalom aleinu v’al kol ha’olam, v’im’ru: amein.
May our prayers provide comfort to all who grieve, and be a source of strength for those who need support in this time of trial.
There are many at dKos whom I admire, but your words are the ones that have truly touched my heart. If healing thoughts can fly through the ether – they have been sent.
She Who Heals — A Healing Prayer
Mother, sing me a song
That will ease my pain,
Mend broken bones,
Bring wholeness again.
…
Show me the Medicine
Of the healing herbs,
The value of spirit,
The way I can serve.
Mother, heal my heart
So that I can see
The gifts of yours
That can live through me.
My heart felt wishes and thought for you and your family, may all turn out well.
his family and send love his way.
I only know him from his diaries and comments but this is
a reminder that behind all those words are living human beings.
I join everyone else in extending my prayers and best wishes to Meteor Blades and his family, and the other victims of this accident.
As Welshman noted, when we spend so much time together, we do begin to feel like an extended family- only one that actually keeps in touch.
It is a blow to hear this news. And my hope is health, safety, and peace of mind for everyone that has been impacted.
M.
My thoughts and prayers are with Meteor Blades and his family, and all those affected by the accident (including family of the others involved).
My thoughts are with you in hoping for the swiftest and fullest possible healing of your loved ones.
And so does the rest of this loving and caring community. We may be strangers of sorts, but every little of bit of love will hopefully help in some way.
In this dark hour you are surrounded by a web of love enveloping the planet, for your words have touched thousands around the world who now stand beside you.
My thoughts and prayers are with you, also, during this difficult time.
May you and your family find healing and comfort in this difficult time. Peace and blessings for you and your family.
Through your writings you have become part of a much larger community and our hearts go out to you. May all the well wishes that we send reach out to you with healing.
Blessed be.
May the energy of this community and dkos bring you strength and hope in the days to come. I know without a doubt that if the call is put forth we all will help in anyway we can. Blood, food, money…whatever you and your family needs is available from the bleeding heart liberals that care deeply about you. Namiste my friend!
Lee
Of all the possible thousand diaries I’ve read over the last 3 or 4 years one diary still stands out in my mind and heart(which I’ve saved) and become sort of a personal touchstone for me. It was by Meteor Blades and it is called ‘Freedom Summer’. It reminds me of the goodness and decency that is out there.
I was up all night due to my own personal problems and finally decided I might as well turn the computer around 4 this morning and check out Booman.
Then I felt like I’d been kicked in the gut seeing Welshman’s diary and my health problems seemed puny for now.
In ‘Freedom Summer’ Meteor mentions he is part Seminole so I spent the next 2 or more hours trying to find a Seminole or Native American prayer that seemed fitting. However nothing really ever seems fitting when one hears something like this.
This is as close as I could come with a short prayer by White Eagle(didn’t say what tribe, just White Eagle)
When you are in doubt, be still, and wait;
When doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage.
So long as mists envelope you, be still;
Be still until the sunlight pours through you and
dispells the mists.
—as it surely will
Then act with courage.
I am hoping for the best for everyone for all involved.
by chocolate ink (suzmyers@msn.com) on Tue Apr 5th, 2005 at 07:34:09 AM PST
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God be with you and your family during this time, MB. We are sending love and prayers to all of you, and pray for the families who lost loved ones in the terrible accident.
MB
My heart and thoughts are with you right now.
paul
Any updates yet on how his wife and sister-in-law are doing? Sure hope his stepson is holding up.
Dear Meteor Blades,
From afar, my thoughts are with you and your family.
Jacques
positive thoughts and strength your way… and a whole lotta love.
is an awesome human being.
I hope the love, strength, & sincerest prayers that all will be well for MB and his family, extended by his online friends, will help him to cope with this terrible accident.
Love on ya, MB.
In the spirit of community and love from a stranger, MB please know that the wellbeing of you and your family are close to my heart, and I pray for everyone involved in the accident.
I will not leave you comfortless
I will come to you. John 14:18
God bless you.
you are a major inspiration to me.
there’s a deep humanity in everything you write, and i’m constantly floored by your intelligence and humour.
may you endure this sad time with your usual strength, and may your family recover swiftly.
thanks for all you are, and the generosity with which you share your wisdom.