Christian prayer thread- Easter on the way

[blackeyedsusan]

All welcome to join

Here is a list of all those who popped in or were regulars on the last thread. I hope I have not missed anyone!!

Amberlight- being treated for breast cancer. side effects may damage her heart.
Beatrice Primrose and cupoftea poorly baby and support for the family
Bluetinkerbell - ttc after losing the beloved Sterre during her second trimester
CaptainDippy- busy busy busy
Chairofthebored -dh has ms and ttc number1
Doodlealley -popped in to ask for prayer re breast cancer.
DutchOma- dh has a lung disease requiring regular trips to hospital/drs and lots of rest
Expat's dd suffering from leukaemia
Fink- recent single parent- husband left
FriendofDorothy- ttc -appointment soon. poorly cat.
Gingercurl - things are stressful at home, studying, high blood pressure
Issypeach - work situation insecure for h and Issy. Prayer requested for the dcs one of whom has gone awol and the other at uni
Jaffacakes ... when is/was your due date?
Jugglingwithsnowballs-job applications to work 1 to 1 with children
Lostmywellies - recently returned to the uk, currently freezing due to heating problems. frriendships for dd and ds to settle into nursery
Madhairday - reoccuring lung infections, dd with psoriasis/partial hearing and unhelpful school
MaryB - work and relationships at church. difficult situations socially for dc's
Notevenamousie - curently undergoing treatment as an inpatient. recently lost her mum.
PositiveAttitude- soon to be working abroad for 2 years. prayer also for current work situation and 3 jobs! (eek) pray for protection and continuing recovery of dd3 just out of hospital and battles for dla
SESthebrave -prayer for husbands stessful job situation and high blood pressure. pray for her quadraplegic friend suffering from pressure sores
Springydaffs-prayer for the truth to be known and a reconciliation with family
SweetestThing- just got the all clear from cancer and officially in remission. however, still has to deal with the after effects of surgery.
Teaandcakesplease - single parent to 2 young children. unsupportive parents re ds "being a toddler." prayer for new reliable friends.
Tuo -dd1 and dh to be more positive about her faith
Weegie atypical variant Guillain Barre syndrome has left her with no sensation in her legs below the knees or arms below the elbows, including hands and feet and the lower part of her face. she can do practically nothing for herself.
Welshcerys- family
ZipidiSoozi- things aren't so easy at the moment. we would love to hear from you.
and finally (I hope)
Blackeyedsusan - mad as a hatter! single parent to 2 youngish children, separated after dv. pray for friends and a new church. ds's behaviour and toddler diarrhoea. dd, niggling health problems.

morning all

Morning BES, how are you today?

Hallelujah, the new router works and I have my broadband connection back.
Prayers for all.

Welcome back DO. You have been missed.

Good day everyone. Prayers for everyone.

I'm just back from a different hospital for dd2's appointment about her hip. She has Perthe's syndrome , where the hip joint dies then regrows.

She had a very bad case and has been on restricted activity with no running or jumping since 2008! We were expecting surgery at some point.

But today the x-rays showed amazing regrowth, she can now have full physical activity apart from trampolines and the surgery is now only a 50/50 chance - its a reconstructive bone graft.

So after all my bad news, it was lovely to get some good news for my lovely, patient dd.

I'm doing ok, mainly bothered by fatigue as everything is such an effort right now. The kids hospital were great today, took dd2 for xrays etc as I couldn't walk that far. I'm going for a lie down!! I deserve it!

rough day - just back from marriage counselling, it didn't go well at all both blaming each other dh thinks we are going round in circles and told the counsellor he couldn't be bothered with it anymore we are both upset please pray for us!

Prayers for all x

That's really great news weegie about your DD and her hip. Great she can take part in all activities now !

So glad of good news for you and your family !

Thinking of everyone, especially for all our relationships

Great news Weegie, not so good Jan. Prayers for both of you.

I have missed me too.

Great news weegie!

Welcome back DO :)

Jan - gosh, that's so hard. You are certainly in my prayers.

Really badly struggling with pain today and feel knocked out by it - the sort that has me climbing the walls and codeine isn't doing anything. please can you pray. I feel so faithless. dh prayed for me in the night when I was crying wiht the pain and it started to decrease and I hoped for a minute. Then it came back with a vengeance and had a terrible night and it's been hideous today. Just want to hide from it. I want to have more faith, and I have been healed before. Really struggling atm. Going to this NW day on saturday - want to be well enough to cope with that.

Oh, feel for you, madhair, that sounds so horrible

Saturday sounds interesting - hope you'll be able to go and enjoy some of the day x

I had an interesting visit to a school with a vacancy this afternoon. Feel it went quite well and really liked the school and HT. So, completing application tomorrow to hand in on Friday. Prayers for tomorrow please that I can feel hopeful enough to make a good job of the application ! Many thanks !
My relationship with DH could do with some boosting prayers too
Love and light (as Quakers say) to all x

And after that great morning, I got my blue parking badge today as well without an extra assessment! So we can be legit now!

Getting cross with God on your behalf, mhd. I asked him, how would it glorify him if you were unable to go on Saturday? I don't understand it. Praying for healing.

Patient endurance. That's what he wants to develop in us, according to the book I'm reading (Richard Foster, Prayer). I'm sure it's a phrase in a NT letter somewhere, but I can't think of the quotation. He also uses the image of a tree in winter. With the glorious covering of leaves gone, it appears barren and ugly, its defects and weaknesses obvious. But without needing to expend energy on its leaves, it is strengthening itself, drawing its sap deeper in and establishing the resilience it needs to be strengthened and flourish. So it is with us, he says, when our outward busyness (even if it is for God) is stripped away - despite the appearance, a deep, spiritual transformation is being undertaken. I like the image, so I mention in case you like it, too.

I'm struggling a little with patient endurance, to be honest. My little trial (which is nothing compared to those many of you are enduring) continues. After a month of no heating now, we enjoyed two hours of the central heating working before the boiler packed in again this evening. Am "meh" about it again now, but was pretty :( at the time.

Did mean to say, weegie: yay to your two pieces of good news today! Lifting you to God regularly. Not with many coherent requests, granted, but remembering you before him.

Jan and Juggling: praying also for you and your dhs. Marriage is a lot of hard work and worse, sometimes, isn't it? My mum said recently that she thought the first 37 years were the hardest. Hope your valleys of darkness lead through to something better.

Sorry for being AWOL for so long and for coming back now because I need to ask your support / prayers.

BES - that was an amazing list you did at the beginning of the thread!

The update on DH's job situation is that he handed his notice in to go for a job on a lower salary but his current company persuaded him to take a different role with them on the same Ts&Cs. I thought this was a pretty good result and he said he is not so stressed and depressed now.
A week ago though he sent me a text in the middle of the day to say he'd been offered a job in Dubai. I have a whole thread on this in WWYD if anyone has a few hours to spare but the crux of it is that DH has ocassionally spoken in the past about taking a job overseas but has never had a firm offer. I have never wanted to move but didn't want to BU and just say a blanket no. In the end I said I wasn't keen but we'd wait until there was a definite offer on the table and then discuss.
I have lots of selfish reasons for not wanting him to take this job but the two big concerns I have are:

• DC2 is due 27th May and DH is saying there is a possibility he will need to be out in Dubai by then. He would go for a couple of months to get things set up before we all move out. I really worry about this timing. I don't think it will be great for any of us - particularly for DS who will be learning to have a sibling and will end up with his Daddy disappearing for a couple of months all at the same time. Also, I worry about bonding between DC2 and DH and selfishly, I'm not sure this is fair on me!
• Secondly, this is an indefinite contract, although DH says for 3-4yrs but longer if it works out. This would require me to give up my career that I have worked hard for and is going well at the moment.

We had a big chat on Saturday evening which left us both feeling hurt and upset. For the first time in our marriage I was wondering whether we would come out the other side. This evening we have spoken very briefly about it again and DH has said that he still wants to take the job. I don't know what to do!!

Prayers please for wisdom and understanding for us both and for - somehow - us to become closer as a couple through this.

Apologies again for returning with such a self - absorbed post. I hope you are all doing well but I will go and have a read through the thread and pray for you all as I go....

MHD - sorry you are in so much pain. Prayers for healing and that you can get to NW on Saturday

Jan - hello, as I'm not sure we've "met" before. Prayers for you and your DH in the middle of tough conversations and choices.

Weegie - great news for your DD :)

Lost - prayers for your current boiler trial. How are things going with DH being away?

Juggling - prayers for you and your DH

Sweetest - prayers for you for strength

Jaffa - prayers for you and your CS recovery and your new LO

Amber - prayers for you with the withdrawl of herceptin.

Prayers for everyone else too - thy will be done Lord.

Wow, SES, that's really tough. This is quite similar to stuff I've had to do in the past and problems I've faced - will have a read through your thread on it and see if I have anything to add. Prayers...

SES - Thanks for your concern for everyone here, and for your prayers.

I feel for you - particularly as my DH thought he might be away for birth of DC2.
In the end the trip was cancelled (Yey ! Sometimes it's good to have friends in high places ) but I certainly remember feeling quite angry about the possibility at the time.

Also sympathise with you feeling like you've worked hard in your own career and this is now taking second place to DHs career plans. And for relationship and communication challenges in general.

On the other hand I wanted to say that we had the opportunity to live abroad in Japan for a year (before the DCs) and it was so exciting, interesting, and generally a really lovely time for us both. The Japanese people were so friendly and welcoming. So, it's only natural to be apprehensive about the unknown (especially with DCs and a new baby to think about) but it could be an interesting adventure/ opportunity ?

Thanks too to lostmywellies - the 37 years comment made me smile

sorry was just reading through when there were blood curdling screams from above... ds has single handedly fingeredly turned his cot and himself into a scene from csi. found him screaming like a stuck pig, blood coming out of his mouth and a foot long bloody snot hanging from his nose and the bloody child would not sit still and let me pinch his nose... in the end he has dripped onto my shoulder. he has been changed but is refusing to have his face wiped properly and I suspect that if they came round with the uv light we would light up like the blackpool illuminations.

now i have unloaded on you lot, I will go and reread...

Oh, I hope he's alright now bes - that sounds like a stressful evening - hope you have a peaceful night x

ses, oh dear. it doesn't sound a good time for you. he does not seem to be loving and cherishing you at the moment, and he may have forsaken others... except his career. (and that was the polite version)

mhd
sorry that it is all coming back again. (((hugs)))

weegie... hope you enjoyed that well deserved lie down.

jan hope you can get something sorted with the counselling. it sounds tough. has the counsellor said anything or do they just listen and ask questions. (sometimes I wished for someone to come and arbitrate our lesser arguments or explain to h why I might be upset at picking up a sharp kniife blade left hidden in the washing up for the xth time, or why it was important not to leave stuff in front of the nappy table so that I don't fall over it and hut myself whilst attempting not to bash ds's head into the wall as i fall) ( i have so not got over it)

amber.. prayed. just forgot to post..

Well, I've written an essay, SES, although I think it may be more depressing than helpful. In the end, I suppose it comes down to a choice between career break while the dcs are small and career progression. That's something only you know how you feel. (If the idea of a career break is tolerable, go for it, it's easier when the dcs are small - but I doubt you'll come round to the idea in half a week...) Short-term contract work sounds something to look into as it doesn't mean uprooting the whole family and his time off would be really time off. He shouldn't feel pressure to go for the first job offer he gets - reassure him that there will be others!

Shutting up now... Where's the zip mouth emoticon?! :o

oh dear, I think we will be off to the dr toady, given the amount of blood. (soaked through to his vest and fleece completely covered. ) and the fact it is still leaking onto his sheets. (there will be screams when he finds out.) he is quite a little chap and this was more than your average nose bleed.

Prayers BES, Jan, MHD and WM, Juggling, Sweetest and Amber, CD, DO and anyone else in need of prayer (including me)

Thanks - things seemed better this morning (with DH) - now just have to get that application done ! Hope your DS will be over his nasty nose bleed soon bes