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 ......

nope no thunder or lightening, and I like a good storm!

amber - glad everything is going smoothly

To our beautiful special Alice aged 18 who is being laid to rest today xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Soozi - prayers for your family today.

Blue -prayers you'lll get a result soon.

Great it went well Amber

Soozi, much prayer for today...
...and for each of the rest of you too

Sweetest - poor you. You have so much on your plate at the moment. Prayers for your Mum and for Carl and his family

my parents are off to see my aunt today. she had a stroke and is in a coma. one of dads other siblings is now in a nursing home so will be better looked after after a heart attack/heart trouble.

ds woke with a pooy nappy and is really sore and is alking like a cowboy whimpering everytime he wees.

Special prayers for Soozi and her family and Alice's family as well.

Much prayer for Soozi and Alice's family today. xxx

sooz

how is this week going amber?

blue, not being pregnant before your due date may have some advantages in that you could have had both future baby and the beloved sterre. I find it a bit disconcerting that ds would not have been here if not for losing baby. I hope that you will have good news soon though. it is a very tough wait.

a poor lady fell over on wet pavement today and broke her wrist. the ambulance had to be called.

thanks ladies for your lovely prayers! I know now it was meant to be like this. I need this time to grieve Sterre and I know one day I will be pregnant again with a little sister/brother for both Sterre and DD1.

Praying for Amber, Soozi I hope you and your family had a nice gentle day to lay your dear Alice to rest, bes praying for your family, praying for Sweetest too...
and everyone else I forgot.

Very much looking forward to meeting up with mhd again tomorrow! DD is very excited as we are coming on the train

Hello just a quick brief request. I'm going over to my parents today. I haven't been since the disastrous Christmas family get together to their house. To put in a bit of background my Dad kept saying awful things about my son and my mum kept insisting she thought he had autism and that I needed to smack him more and a raft of other contradictions. I said at the time I wouldn't come to see them anymore if they kept doing this. I have seen my mum once a month since then, when she's still continually worried about my discipline of DS and I saw Dad once when we all went out to Odds Farm Park. But I am quite nervous about today as I know they'll be watching him and how I treat him carefully. As well as worrying about their house and if he'll destroy it being a toddler It also brings up painful memories of my childhood sometimes, as I cried a lot as a baby, and they often brought up how difficult I was as a baby and then child. DS cried a lot as a baby and they seem to be following a similar pattern with him now. Whereas I see a child who had colic and is now a gorgeous cheeky boy who I love. He responds well to time outs and is getting better all the time.

Also tomorrow the children finally meet ExH's long term girlfriend. So prayers for peace for them, favour and a pleasant time. That OW can put the past behind and what ExH told her to justify commencing the affair and we can focus on the children and the future now. We're going to meet on neutral territory, I want to be there for the first time. As DD was anxious about it but she seems to be calming and looking forward to it now. She doesn't know this lady is why our marriage broke down or anything like that. I've been careful to say only kind things and the proposal for slowly increasing contact with her from ExH is well considered and kind. They do not live together yet and they won't be having the children over night. So it's a slow approach to meeting her over time. She was very resistant to me being there for the first time she meets them with ExH since we split up and the affair came to light. I know she is angry with me as I said no to her meeting them before as they were so young and the idea put to me by ExH back then was too sudden and not honest to the children. Also she wasn't living down here yet and still at uni. They also had had a very wobbly patch in their relationship and I wanted to be sure they were stable iyswim? They're now 2 & 4, so still young but a lot better than when we first separated when they were 11 months and 2 and a quarter. My only concern has been my little ones, it's never been about revenge or anything like that. She wanted ExH to take me to court over access as apparently I had no right to stop her seeing them. But it was simply about me being concerned about the children and ExH and I have had a fantastic and amicable co parenting relationship for the last 2 years and he's seen them lots. I've never stopped him seeing them ever. I've done my best to facilitate contact with their dad as often as I could. OW thought ExH was being a wimp and bullied by me basically. Not true I hasten to add

In fact God has done wonders in bringing me to a place of forgiveness for ExH and for OW. I just hope she can do the same, as that is what's best for the children and creating a good dynamic.

What a ramble, hopefully you understand it all and there aren't too many typos as I've typed quick as I need to run. So read it and cover it all in prayer if you can, thank you lovely ladies. So sorry I seem to post and run only at the moment.

Praying for you TACP. As I read through I can see how incredibly brave and gracious you have been, putting your dc first and not bowing to the temptation of turning them against OW etc, I really respect you and pray today and tomorrow that as well as these things coming together well you will also know God's love surrounding you like a big fluffy blanket. sending love and prayers. x

Blue - we're really looking forward to it too, shame weather is minging so prob no park but tbh I'm not able to walk too far at moment so may be best :)

Going to SILs for weekend so won't be around then, can't wait to see them all as well.

TACP - prayers.

how did it go tacp? did read it earlier and have prayed on and off today. what a couple of tough days.

blackeyedsusan - prayers for the health of your family xx

tacp - wow praise god for your strength, it must have been a tough couple of years for you and your children, prayers the meeting went ok xx

Thank you for all your prayers for the family of our dear Alice xx

Thank you for the prayers. Today went as well as I could wish for. A couple of awkward moments and I still cannot escape the fact I felt watched/ judged but God is good and the kids had fun.

D day tomorrow, so I'm off to bed, super tired. ExH rang me earlier worrying about tomorrow and his gf

good luck for today tea.

any trouble with his girlfriend is his own making.

leo, saw your other thread. praying you sort it out.

Thank you ladies. This morning went brilliantly! Only stayed for 10 mins, the kids were totally delighted and as a friend on fb said, the children just consider her a new friend to play with. As they do not know the back story at all. I think it will take time for us all to settle into a good co parenting pattern but today was good. I think in a fortnight they'll take the kids out again for a couple of hours but ExH will come by between now and then to see the children at home and bedtimes etc.

Hi all
Much prayer continuing for each of you.
Doing alright here really but bit tearful and overemotional after the herceptin wonderdrug thingy this week - might be a side effect or might just be me. Got a wedding to go to tomorrow so I guess I can disguise it as tears of happiness for the bride

amber - bless you prayers for your tears of joy/saddness just reminded me of when I was sad swimming, I had a good excuse for red eyes/chlorine!!! our family use that saying 'go with the flow' hahaha but it niggles me, prayers for you dear amber xx

tacp - pleased everything turned out ok for your meeting, and that their daddy will visit them at home and at bedtimes, such a precious time for toddlers they remember I'm sure xx

bes - hope you are ok and that your busy house project is improving!!! xx

mary - you enjoyed york? I've never been (that I can remember) is that the city that is surrounded by a wall? xx

DO - how are you? I feel your presence in our life and try to remember your loving calmness from the meet, always helps me in stressful situations or when I meditate. xx

CD - how have you been lately, your beautiful little brood keeping you occupied? xx

grrrrrrrrr still no idea when h is supposed to turn up tomorrow to see the children. he suggested going out earlier this week so we are going out whether he comes or not.

praise god, i have had a lovely day with dc by the canal, and lunch in a cafe and walk.

glad it went ok tea. was it just 10 mins or did the dc go with exh/ow for a bit?

amber have a lovely time tomorrow.

Soozi what a lovely thing to say, thank you.
I have had a week and a half, having Zac here. I thought, having him on his own we would have a wonderful time, doing things between us and him playing gently by hiself, yeah right.
He would hardly eat anything except chocolate and biscuits, to begin with I went with that as a treat, but when I realised he was not eating anything else, I stopped it. Whenever I asked him to do some tidying up, he became very stroppy, at one occasion spitting me in the face, biting and kicking.
I was very gobsmacked, I did not want to get angry with him, but did.
Anyway, we had a good day today (yesterday was the biting and kicking incident) as we went to see his Auntie and Baby Rose in W'borough and tomorrow he is going home. It has been a very steep learning curve and I am totally exhausted.
One nice thing though: we say grace before meals, just a "Thank you Lord Jesus for our food, Amen".
So Zac says:"God isn't real". So we both said that God was very real to us, and that we were glad to have Him around.
One mealtime we did not say grace, but he asked for it:"Hold hands and say thank you".
Then he said:"But God didn't make the bread rolls, Grandad and I did".
Answer that....
Have a wonderful wedding Amber
Glad things went well TACP and yes, just go out with the children BES

Oh no "I" left after 10 mins, the kids stayed with them for 2 hours odd. But they were happy so I went grocery shopping. That's all I wanted, to be sure the kids were happy before going.

Oh my DO, how old is Zac?

DO - what an eventful few days you have had, hard work by the sounds of it, prayers for a more relaxing weekend ahead of you. xx

We've been out on bikes today, training twins on the roads, they are doing brilliantly! hand signals the lot, very proud mummy for 8yo's

Callum did his DofE hike - we were at checkpoints for him, so twins and I went round the local churches whilst waiting for him, was very interesting, a vicar came to us and involved the twins searching for headstones with 'Belvoir Angels' on and told us a story of a headstone that read... a man had been murdered for stealing a penny, apparently someone set their dog on him, this was in the yr of 1855... twins were intrigued

Thank you God for a lovely week off school.
Prayers to you all for a lovely weekend xxx