MN Christian Prayer Thread - Dippy's Back! Prayers for New Beginnings as a New Academic Year Commences ......

[CaptainDippy]

I know I would appreciate prayers as I face the prospect that the Littlest Dippy starts school in a few short weeks (w/c 12th Sept to be precise). Feeling a little wobbly to say the least ......

Blooming church!! Such a source of unhappiness where it should all be about care and support. I bet she feels very judged by the people in her church and even by God Himself.
I will pray for her, as I know you will, but maybe give her the impression that you (and God) love her the way she is. Also even if she does not believe in God, God still believes in her and loves her, however recalcitrant and stroppy she is.
And convince her that He won't stop loving her even if she doesn't go to church.

yay, I am watching the tv, from across the roomAND I can hear and see it too! (i have had to sit up close to the tv to hear much and could not watch anything atmospheric as it was all black. carrtoons aeemed to be ok though so the childen were happy)

h has ordered a control for the tv AND IT WORKS no more having to worry that ds turns something down and we can not turn it up again. (because he poked the on button into the depths of the tv)

(and I have found the batteries from the control for the dvd so we can turn that on now)

feeling tired and poorrly, can't shake sore throat/swollen glands. today is going to be an effort.

Hello everyone. I think God is really trying to test me at the moment - apart from my illness, and our friend being in a coma, my mum has now gone a bit doolally and imagined people were rampaging around her house yesterday. Police were called and she thinks my dad is still alive (he died in 93), all my brothers and I are still at home and she works as a nurse. She's 450 miles away from me so one of my brothers is there trying to sort it out.

Is it wrong to feel that this is one test too many?

no sweetest, not wrong to feel that. we are all human and God has made us the way we are. we can only take so much at a time. this is a time that you need someone else to help carry your burdens. I hope you have rl support to help. hope we can help too, even just by listening and praying.

praying now for you.

Praying for you and your mum too, Sweetest Not wrong at all to feel like that. The psalms are full of it. All you can do sometimes is what I call 'strap-hanging' faith, you are swayed and feeling slightly, (or not so slightly) sick, but you are hanging in there and you are still on the train. Every blessing

how are you sweetestt? have you heard from your db yet? praying for you all.

Heck Sweetest Sending many prayers...hope you hear from your DB soon with some sort of plan...

Thanks, everyone. Haven't heard anything yet but I know my brothers will try and protect me from it because they know I'm not well, but I'll find out what I need to know at some point.

I am lucky that I have fantastic support in rl from DH and DD (DS at uni so am not going to worry him about this) and my church is tremendously supportive in practical and prayerful ways. It does help to be able to come here and to know that you are holding my family and me in your prayers.

As for the friend in a coma in Spain, his family will find out on Monday if they can bring him back to the UK - it would be much easier for them to be back home, where they understand the language, the infrastructure and know how it all works. Two friends are going out on Monday to see him and his family so we are sending cards out with them. We've already sent email messages which have been read out to him in case he can hear while he's in this state.

I know lots of other people here need prayers too, so will pray hard for all.

Wow Sweetest, adding my prayers too. Hope you hear news soon.

Little request. My mum came to see me today, I know she loves me very much and cares about me. She's kind and generous but mentioned again how DS has me wrapped round his finger basically and that she brought up my 4 brothers and I like an army major and "1,2,3 smack" for disobedience. That her children never dared to disobey and how with DS he's going to be a tear away if I do not begin to be firmer. As discussed before I use time outs/ distraction methods and walk away and let him cool off if he's cross and cannot hurt himself. He's 2.8 yrs. The situation that begun it was the fact that there is an ice cream van outside school and he wanted one. I just left him to cool off whilst putting DD in the car and then went back and got him in the car. And he didn't want to come upstairs before going in the garden to the paddling pool. I explained I needed to have a drink and change his nappy to a swim nappy and he was cross, but he did come up after me 2 minutes later. But Mum said we never dared to do that as children

As ever I am now questioning whether she is right and came down much firmer on him just after she left, I didn't smack him though. But then I realised I'm processing what she said and have taken it to heart. Please pray for me.

tea, your mum has just got a bad memory, thats all.

I bet she didn't have your dad walk out on her just as you lot were small either. ds was coming out of his toddler tantrums but they took a turn for the worse after h "left"

sounds like you did the right thing to me. better to distract than rule with a rod of iron. persuade them that it is their choice.

Well you know already what I think about your mum's way of dealing with your little boy. I won't rehearse it here. I brought up my children different from the way my daughter deals with hers. That is not only to do with the diffenrence in time, it is also to do with the difference in CHILD. Your ds sounds like hard work and you are dealing with him MARVELOUSLY well. Just continue what you are doing. Smacking will teach a child that it is ok to use violence on a defenceless person. Time out and totally ignoring bad behaviour teaches him that bad behaviour is not tolerated.
Best of luck

Teaching a child to be frightened of their parents isn't much of a lesson, so I totally disagree with your dm's approach, tea. Yes, I could have taught ds to be terrified of me and do anything to avoid pain, but what sort of a life is that for a child?

Keeping prayers going for everyone.

Ahh thank you lovely ladies. I feel a lot better today, so thank you for the prayers.

off out up the motorway. glad you are feeling better tea wookie?

tacp I think you sound like you are a lovely mummy and doing a great job. Each child needs different strategies. We have to be a lot firmer with dd but with ds he melts down if anyone is even a bit cross so we find different ways of dealing with behaviour. Don't tie yourself in knots - you're doing great.

It's ds' birthday today - just had a party. He's having a great time :)

Yes he does have a melt down if shouted at funnily enough MHD.

Happy birthday to your DS today

Quick update - Mum has been in hospital for the past couple of days, and it seems pretty certain it's dementia. She also has a kidney infection. To be honest, I'm not surprised at the dementia dx as there have been signs of it over the past few years. When I went to see her late last year, she didn't even recognise me and kept saying she couldn't talk to me as she was waiting for her daughter to arrive.

My brother who lives near her has power of attorney and is arranging for her to go into a care home and will sell the family house to finance it - fully supported in this decision by my other brother and me. Sad to think that the family home has gone and so, in effect, has the mum I knew.

Would appreciate if you could think of her in your prayers. Poor soul is so confused.

Am new to all this (am namechanged reg though)so I hope this is ok

Can I ask for prayers for my wonderful uncle, he's been diagnosed with prostate cancer and is undergoing chemo

Am so so scared and could do with knowing others are praying too.....please please please

Tgank you

We're having our Harvest Festival tomorrow! Very excited, as I missed it last year as we were moving country then!

Prayers for parenting skills, prayers for people with illnesses, prayers for everyone else!

Morning everyone.

Sweetest, it's great that there is now a diagnosis and you know what you're dealing with. Also great that you and your brothers are in agreement with how to move forward and do what you can for your mum. I will continue my prayers. It must be a very frightening time for all of you.

Hi Fabby, I will add your uncle to my prayers.

Enjoy the Harvest Festival Blue. We had ours last week. People's generosity always amazes me

Still praying for everyone else...

Praying for everything here too x

Sweetest, are the family sure they have to sell the home? I think in some parts of the UK there's dodgy info on this and it turns out that the government is supposed to fund the care homes, not the family. Worth checking with citizens advice if the family haven't already done so (apologies if all of this has been thought through - just so sad that people have to sell their homes to pay for essential care)

Prayers all round