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 ......

Zac will be five in January, this was his first half term. His mum had to go to work as she is the manager at the moment. Her manager had a baby a few weeks ago,so she could not have any time off.

now i have cleaned up after getting to the yeah right I can offer sympathy and shin pads it is tough when they act up, especially if you are not used to it and have not developed a left arm the size of a body builders for the purpose of tucking ds under so the bitey bit and the kicky bit are facing outwards

I hope that you managed to get some enjoyable memories out of the whole thing.

the flour is made from wheat and God made the wheat grow in the fields. (yes I know the farmer planted it, but god made it grow) the Bible also tells us that all good gifts come from God. (it is always difficult to come up with an answe on the spot. the lady behind me at the supermarket laughed when dd asked what garlic tasted like, then I did fish impressions(mouth opening and closing repeatedly) with a pained expression on my face beforer coming up with the answerr that it tastes like... erm garlic )

look at the brightside you can always send him home

My dd is picking him up tomorrow.
Yes, I know that I could have gone into it in greater depth, but I am quite pleased that he is now prepared to say "thank you to God" for food, even if he has no idea how it got to the table. I just want him to have an idea that God is real and wants to be his Father in Heaven, without giving the impression that God is at his beck and call to make him happy. It's a very big concept for a four year old.

DO - sure boys get a rush of testostrone when they are 5 yo

daft 'ap'orth left his keys here and has come back and missed the bloody train. he then stood in the hall for 15 mins being pathetic after I had rung and rung a couple of taxi companies and got no reply. he is staying on the sofa bed I am going to bed a lot laterr than planned.

Prayers aplenty for everyone.
DO, sounds very much like many instances I've had over the years with young people I work with. Food issues, overliteralism etc. Hard work, definitely.

bes - oh dear, at least the dc will be happy this morning! xx

the dc were thrilled, but dd has started wishing h was back here to live. grrr.

it is a blessed relief that he has gone. I was very tired and grumpy this morning, due to the late night. dd's face was a picture though when she saw he was here.

she wants him back, but it was miserable when he was here as I was all shouty at the frustrations of asking him to do/not do stuff and it not going in and him doing the opposite. kitchen knives point up in the drying rack hidden amoung ordinary knives, cupboard doors left open to walk into, things in the way of the changing mat to fall over whilst carrying small children, leaving the big windows open on the 2nd floor with climbing toddlers in the room, leaving children in just a vest in the middle off winter, or a coat in a car in summer if the sun comes out. (when he took his own coat off) not being able to watch for cars while supervising play in the garden. (thank God I was supervising the supervising and yelled stop in time.) leaving toddler in the bath while he went to answer the phone. aaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!

by the time we got to church, i was a bit wound up. 4 police cars whizzing past, sirens blaring, at regular intervals reminded me of police cars whizzing to here. (I missed it, was already off in an ambulance being reassured that it was not as bad as I first thought) I don't normally think of these things, but having him here last night stressed me out a bit and stirred things up again. we have been getting on quite well seperately and in small doses.

and it is a school night... though I have take away sitting in the fridge to ease the transition back to the tyranny of the school run.

I am here lurking and praying.

Oh BES big prayers for you and the children.

a sleeping boy, quiet homework, an afternoon mning and drinking coffee and blowing some bubbles have made life seem so much better. should imagine a dose of prayer from Mum and you have helped too. and it is bed time for small people, and I have take away in the fridge...

Prayers...

Prayers for all.

Glad it went well with Ex-H, TACP. It sounds as if you're all working really hard to make this all as civilised as possible for the kids and I'm sure that will pay dividends in the long run, hard as it may be now.

BES - sorry your Ex-H is making things difficult for you. I hope your dd isn't too upset by it all.

DO - don't underestimate how stressful starting school can be too. (My dd has just started secondary school and we've had a few 'pre-teen strops' which I am putting down to stress... can't be bad parenting, right !) Also his mum maybe working different (longer?) hours? Hope things with your dgs get back on smoother terms soon, anyway.

Have been lurking and praying as usual.
Could do with some prayer here. DH, DS and I are all quite frazzled at the moment, each for differing reasons. As a consequence, DH and I snap at each other a lot of the time, which upsets DS, who has been ill most of mid-term, still really not back to his normal self and is super-clingey and whiney at the moment. I feel as I'm failing in all areas at the moment. I feel guilty/worry about DS and wish DH didn't misunderstand me everytime I open my mouth to say something .

Oops, had to run before, sorry.

Wanted to add a slightly -making request for prayers for courage to stand up to my dh when he complains about my church-going. Yesterday he had a bit of a rant about organised religion in general (prompted by nothing more than a throw-away comment about something really quite irrelevant), and today he was moaning to a friend that, because I have started going to church, it means we can't go out anywhere for the day on a Sunday any more. This is not true, as I'd miss the odd week if he really wanted to go anywhere - and, ironically enough, we went away for the weekend this weekend and so I didn't go! I always ask him what he wants to do at the weekend, and usually he doesn't have any specific plans, so I take that to mean that I'm fine to do what I (and dd2) want to do on Sunday morning. But anyway, the stupid thing is that I am too feeble to stand up to him - particularly in front of others- and I mumbled something about dd2 enjoying it instead of, I guess, affirming my faith and asking him not to disparage it - especially not in front of the dds (though he already has dd1 on 'his side', as it were). And I feel a bit rubbish about how difficult I find it to admit (in real life, as opposed to on here) to what I believe. I'm just really cross and disappointed in myself, basically. He is vocal enough about what he believes (or doesn't); yet, I am afraid to speak out about what I believe.

I will be working on this, but prayers will help, I know.

Cross-posted gingercurl. Praying...

gc hope you get some sleep/rest/peace soon. hope ds gets better. how is he doing with school. be warned , it may be a bit of a shock for him to go back today. receptionchildren can be thrown by the return after the holidays. hoping you will have no trrouble.

tuo

help just pulled a muscle in my back and it is really sore. worried about the schooll run. had ibuprofen as soon as I could get to the packet! will get a water bottle out if I manage to get them both to school. it is easing a bit with movement so I am hoping for enough of a recovery to do school run and a ds who does not pull and fight me because that would really hurt today. he was still bouncing around his cot at midnight last night, so is going to be today.

TUO I'm putting in a plug again for Stephen Gaukroger's book "It makes sense" which you can have from the Scripture Union for a fiver. It will give you a grounding in what you actually believe and so you will be much more able to answer your dh in a gracious and scriptural way about what you believe and why.
If you leave it around while you are not in the house he might even pick it up himself and have a look. Whatever you do, don't 'notice'.
There are people on this board who have had unbelieving husbands who have now through the grace of God and prayer come to faith. Nothing you say can 'make' him believe, it is the Holy Spirit who convinces.
Don't beat yourself up about your lack of response, but 'arm' yourself with what he Holy Spirit can give you.
BES, it never rains but it pours, doesn't it. Hopefully you are now back home with your hottie.
Gingercurl I have no doubt that things will get better as ds gets more used to school. Is there anything you can do to 'treat' yourself or treat your dh with? Time will pass and things will get better.
At least, that is what I tell myself in the situation with my dd, who has not been in touch all weekend beyond saying that she arrived home safely, which is an answer to prayer itself.

TUO, eek re your dh and his attitude. Mine has the view that he doesn't believe a word of it, but if it's important to me then he wants me to enjoy my church and faith life and totally supports it. I think yours needs to find that same attitude. It's not like church is an all day event anyway. Well, most aren't.

Prayers aplenty continuing for each other situation as I'm reading through.

praise God, I got them both to school. ds did not pull too much and came back to me as dd went into school. a miracle that I am not chasing him down the field! hot water bottle installed, and as a bonus, I have found dd's spare plimsolls and the next size of wellies! silver linings and all that.

and there is enough take away left for tea!

Hello! Just back from a few days away and praying as I read through....esp for BES, GC and TUO...

Hello. Just to let you know that our friend Carl died this morning, after six weeks in a coma following a massive heart attack. Please pray for his devastated wife and daughters, parents and brothers. May he know peace now.

TUO - thank you for posting. I have the same problem and find it really difficult and get rather miserable about the situation so I'm v grateful to read other people's advice. DH tolerates me going to the Quakers but God help me if I wanted to go back to the RC church - that would be a step too far.

Sweetest, much much prayer for everyone in the midst of all of that. There are no words useful enough...

BES hurrah for the lack of pulling etc!

Sweetest only saw your message after I posted. HOw utterly sad. Prayers for all his family.
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