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 ......

Hello everyone :)

Could I ask if anyone would pray for my DD & her new fiancé? :) They are both in their final year at Uni, both committed Christians and plan to marry in around a years time. DD is waiting to find out where the job she accepted for next year will place her, and her DP is trying to get into "Vicar school" but it's so slow he may have to take another job for a year.

We are getting a lot of "They are too young" from the non-church friends - it is def. still the church kids who get married young - but we were younger so can't moan.

Thanks

So pleased to hear your nose is better Amber.

Ouch! Bad news about the toe, Dippy... Get well soon.
Also get well soon BES's DS.

Prayers for all of the above, and especially for MHD's DD. Bullying is so insidious and awful and its effects go so deep. I hope the teacher has dealt with it effectively and that your DD is happier today, MHD. I hope that you are feeling better in yourself too.

Praying for your DD and her fiance, Milliways. I can't believe she's in her final year already. Congratulations to them and prayers for a really happy future for them.

DD has come out happy, the teacher has dealt with it well and plans to do a lesson educating the class on exzema and psoriasis :) so pleased. If anything it's a bit better, we got some new stuff last week from the doctors and it's made a difference to some of it. praise God.

Milliways - I will pray for your dd and her bf - you know I really empathise, we were young and we actually married half way through dh's uni course (he was only 21) and sooo many people said that to us - you're too young, you will never stay together, you're daft, should 'see the world' and 'experience more widely' etc. All a load of bunkum imo. If you find your life partner you know it, what diff does age make. 15 years on and we have showed them they were wrong Sounds like they really know where they're going and have a great future planned, all the best to them. The best thing anyone said to us when others were being so negative was 'it's your story. You don't have to be like anyone else. Live your story and live it as it unfolds.' So no self-fulfilling prophecies of marrying young etc.

Amber - so glad you're OK.

I'm having problems trying ot sort out my new consultant - basically new surgery are being seriously rubbish, and I'm having to chase it all up myself, should not be the way - what about really vulnerable people who can't do that for whatever reason? Please pray it gets sorted so I can sort out my meds and next hospital stay peacefully.

mhd glad the teacher dealt with it professionally! What kind of stuff is she using to treat it?
DH has several different creams...
Praying for you! When do you need to go to hospital next?

Milli will pray!

Blue she has a steroid cream for her body, another steroid for scalp, then emollient on top of those, plus a bath lubricant (can't use any soap etc) and a coal tar shampoo. It's all very time consuming but if we let it slip at all it just gets worse. poor love. She's doing very well now at applying a lot of it herself, I just have to do her scalp and back.

Next hosp stay, not sure. Not responding to oral abs so should be in for IVs now really but delaying it as far as poss, at least till I get consultant, physio etc sorted or I'll be passed from pillar tp post by non specialists and it'll all be a nightmare DH is pushing to get in soon, but I still have a little hope I won't need to and I'll start mending....you never know.

Amber, so please your nose has been sorted out!

Madhairday - prayers for you to feel better soon

Captain... prayers for your poorly toe, for Happy plasters!!!!!!

ha! i married in my mid 30's and it lasted.... 6 1/2 years til we split... nothing to do with age at all!

i'll try to get ds to drs tomorrow. so far today he hasn't pooed... which is worrrying as it could be quite bad when he does he was diagnosed with toddler diarrhoea, which he is supposed to grrow out of, though there are no signs yet. going back to chase up whether he needs more investigations.

good news about school mhd! and your nose amber!

oo dippy, how did you manage that? the good news is, it hurts less the next day than you imagine it will, especially when this lot have prayed!

.. and i may have caught ds early enough to get the potty out...

hehe could do with prayers for a poorly toe as well
DH pulled the office chair on top of it while reaching out to give me a hug! thought I was ok, until the blood came seeping through my sock... missing half a toe nail now :(
It is slightly better now, happened on Saturday, but still painful when rubbing against sock/duvet etc!

Praying for my DH as well, he suffers from SAD and with the change of hour and darker days he is feeling very low... add stress about moving house and money worries... no good :(
I don't like to see him like this, so I feel stressed and worried too...

put a big plaster on it, with added tape. keeps it from catching.

poor dh. tis miserable this time of year.

been hand sowing victorian costume as it was too late to get the machine out disturbing the neighbours and I don't know how it works yet.. may fall asleep in the church service tomorrow.

Milli welcome and prayers for you DD and her fiancé. I was another young marry-er and we in our 24th year of marriage now.

MHD Prayers for God's healing today! But I also pray that the Drs get their act together properly for you. Good news about DD.

Awake at stupid time! No doubt I will be zombified for today!

(also zombified)

Life is really hectic and I've been panicking a bit, but had an amazing sense of peace in the night, with God saying to me "come to me BEFORE you panic and not after", and feeling much better for doing so. :)

DD has asked to be confirmed, assuming all goes well, this will take place on Easter Sunday at the dawn service! Lovely time to do it, but logistically a nightmare :)!

What God has been saying to me is: "You can either worry, or trust Me. What's it going to be?" Sometimes I feel I don't trust God any further than I can throw Him

God is like a boomerang, you chuck him and he'll come right back :o

And the other one, posted on Facebook by our minister, of all people:- "Worry is a form of practical atheism." He said he should practise what he preaches.

Yes, DO and Mary, but the question I always ask is the extent that we can trust in God to help us through this when we, in all honesty, really haven't done our" bit". It's one thing to trust in God to help us if we are doing everything in our power to sort something out. But, if we procrastinate, get distracted or fail to do things for any number of reasons such as exhaustion or just plain old lack of self-discipline, is it really right to run to God or should we just accept that we've got ourselves in a mess and deal with it?

gingercurl, what you have to ask yourself is, if your child got into difficulties through their own fault, is how much you would let them struggle, or would you let them struggle a bit and then help when it becomes clear they're not going to do it on their own. And how much more God our Father loves us and would help us.

I don't think we should ever just accept what is coming to us, without at least praying about it. That doesn't mean we should sit back and let God "do" it and decry all responsibility, rather that as Paul says we should take ALL our worries to God. God has a way of turning things that have gone wrong into something that is right. Prime example is my first marriage/divorce, mistakes that were made. Yet if I hadn't gone through that, I'd never have quit the RCC, joined the C of E, and become a minister. I don't believe God "caused" the divorce to happen, in fact the reverse, but he was able to USE the subsequent fallout and turn it into something good!

Great post Mary and great news about dd as well.

Blue, praying for your dh, how awful for him.

I am another one who 'hands things over to God' only to take them back a couple of hours later we're human - it's hard not to worry about stuff. There has to be a good balance somewhere, don't think I've quite found it yet!!

And yes we should be proactive but also God is a God of grace, that is so wonderful, that even when we mess up God is graceful and merciful, 'compassionate to all that he has made'. :)

A friend just sent me this link to encourage me and I wanted to share it to encourage you too. A real sense of letting go into God's arms which a few of us seem to be struggling with at the moment. Hope you find it helpful - it's not too long.

I must admit, for some reason I hadn't thought about it that way, Mary. Maybe with respect to other people, yes, but certainly not with regard to myself . Perhaps because I'm just all too aware of my own failings? It sometimes amazes me how much I'm learning or not about God through my life as a married person and a parent. Since I had became a mother, it really has deepened my understanding of how close and intimate God wants to be with us. If I, as an earthly mother, breastfed and co-slept with my child, how much closer does not my heavenly father want me close to him?
Agree with you about God using bad things for something good, rather than him causing something bad to happen for some higer reason.
Sorry maybe this discussion should be on the other thread.

In haste, but just to say thank you Mary for that insightful post. Milliways' post had me thinking about my first marriage and how I feel about that now. I don't want to go into details, but it was my fault that it didn't work out, and I really regret how I handled it, though I can't regret that it happened because without it my beautiful dds wouldn't be here and I wouldn't be where I am now... . But thinking about how that experience has helped to bring me to where I am today is really useful, Mary.

Prayers for all, of course.

off to the dr with ds later. eek. a friends dd has gluten allergy (whatever it is called) and as told it was toddler diarrhoea)

Mary and DO you put a smile on my face just imagine God as a Boomarang

sorry 'Boomerang' sp atrocious xx