Welcome to a week comprised of videos… even Friday’s Wisdom Story will be in video form!
A couple of weeks back, we had the incomparably sad theme music from Schindler’s List. Today I’ve chosen another soundtrack but this time it is delightfully upbeat. Enjoy a couple of minutes with “Il Postino.”
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Oh – how I loved that movie! Now I will go see if it is on Netflix so I can watch it again. Thank you!
Fran,
I don’t think it’s on streaming Netflix, but I hope I’m wrong.
Paul
Great way to kick off the first week in October, many thanks…
Tim,
Please don’t remind me it’s October… We still have no building permit.
Paul
You can’t be serious. Oh wait. I’m certain that you are… Oh dear.
It is hard to believe that the process would be so slow. I hope you get it soon.
A lovely little tune for a Monday morning.
Please pray for my childhood friend (a postman) and his young family. His wife has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and the drugs that could extend her life are not on the NHS approved list.
Please know that others will be praying.
Prayers coming!!
Simon,
I promise fierce prayers.
Paul
Prayers going out to this family.
Is there any chance that they could obtain the drugs through any ongoing research? If I’m not being overly intrusive, would you mind sharing the pharmaceutical needed?
Simon,
He and his family are in my prayers.
Simon,
My prayers are with this dear woman, husband and family.
What soft and gentle music with which to begin the week! Thank you.
Lynda,
Sometime soft and gentle is all that we need, right?
Paul
Hi,
Thanks for some nice music to get Monday off to a great start.
Simon I will pray for your friend and his wife hope that things will work
out okay for them.
May God be with them
Phil
Phil,
Nice? Damning with faint praise?
Paul
I cannot recollect hearing this music before and found it quite mellow.
Prayers for your friend and his family, Simon.
Katy,
Yes, mellow is a lovely and suitable description for this music!
Paul
Thank you for the lovely music.
I am looking forward to seeing the videos you have chosen for us this week.
Simon — prayers for your friend, his wife and the whole family.
Denise,
To be fair, Denise chose one of them and will present it in a guest post.
Paul
For me, there is nothing like the gift of a sunset from God especially when the ocean is also involved. What a beautiful way to start my day especially since it is rainy and cold where I am and my body aches. Seeing the sunset to this beautiful music,and feeling God’s presence warmed me up and gave me the Grace to get started this morning! Thank you Paul.
Happy and Blessed Monday to all on PFO!
Kathy,
You’re so kind. Thank you.
Paul
I will pray for your friends, too, Simon.
Thank you all so much. I know they will appreciate it.
Emma, I have no idea what the drugs/treatment are but I’ll try and find out. It’s at times like this that it brings home the fact that even in countries with some safety net, rationing of health care is very much a fact of life unless you are one of the few who can afford to make your own provision. I am not sure many families have a spare £80k (the cost of the drugs available for private patients) sitting around just in case they need to pay for a prescription
Last spring we had a shortage of methotrexate, which is used as a treatment for childhood leukemia, an effective treatment. Investigations showed that the reason behind the shortage was that the patent had expired making the drug unprofitable to manufacture. The same companies that make use of gov grants for research and development to drive their profits, then cease to produce the drug when it no longer brings a high profit. They are very forthright in stating it. I’d be ashamed to admit that I could care less about the children dying. The whole system is a disgrace! I wonder what becomes of the people who enter these fields driven by a desire to benefit humanity? I don’t think it’s greed in their situation as much as it is that they’re ground up by the machine. So frustrating. But, yes, if you can pass on the name, I’d be interested…
To be honest Emma, I am not even sure that people are ground down by the system. There is moral hazard everywhere. The scientists who make the drugs are rarely the people who make the decisions to stop making the drug because it becomes unprofitable. That decision will come from the board, after the summary reports from the finance department highlight what is making money and what isn’t. The board is unlikely to want to be fired by the shareholders for overseeing the demise of the company or, for that matter, a hostile takeover by a more profitable pharmaceutical company with a newer drug pipeline. I think you can put this down to the two competing forces – greed and fear