Christian prayer thread-spring time!

[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- prayer that the heart problems she has are temporary and that the beast cancer will not return. Pray for dh after his op.
Aspirantpirate -studying and a new job in September
Beatrice Primrose and cupoftea poorly baby and support for the family
Bluetinkerbell- lost her beloved Sterre during her second trimester. Now pregnant again!
Caz and her baby Xander. Also for dh who does not share her faith.
CaptainDippy- busy busy busy
Chairofthebored-dh has ms and ttc number1
Creatovator ds ?asd and dd?s eczema
Dutch Oma- dh has a lung disease requiring regular trips to hospital/drs and lots of rest. Church services are not always easy due to excessive noise causing problems for Bob.
Expat's dd suffering from leukaemia. Give thanks that she has a donor for transplant and pay for a good outcome!
FriendofDorothy- for a calm, successful pregnancy
Gingercurl- things are stressful at home, studying for PhD, 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... new baby
Jan marriage, new baby and ongoing health problems
Jugglingwith?-job applications to work 1 to 1 with children and a husband who needs to appreciate all she does!
Lostmywellies- recently returned to the uk, friendships for dd and ds to settle into nursery. Possible knee op?
LoveAndPrayers. Marriage and h?s debts
Madhairday- reoccuring lung infections, dd with psoriasis/partial hearing and unhelpful school and getting bullied. Madhair is writing a book! ?or at least she should be if she weren?t on mn?
MaryB- work and relationships at church. difficult situations socially for dc's. dd getting bullied.
Notevenamousie- curently undergoing treatment as an inpatient. recently lost her mum.
Patsyplusone welcome!
PositiveAttitude- soon to be working abroad for 2 years from 17th July!. Pray for dds1,2 and 3 staying behind. prayer also for current work situation and 3 jobs! (eek). Prayers for DB and PA?s family?s relationship with sil.
SESthebrave-prayer for husbands stressful job situation, which may involve going to Dubai (not what ses wants). The last few weeks of pregnancy and work. Pray for the baby to turn the right way round.
SophieNeveau - welcome! A single parent with a disability.
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, and one friend in particular!
Tuo-dd1 and dh to be more positive about her faith
Weegie Thank God that treatment is bring some relief to her condition, chronic inflammatory.Demyelinating polyneuropathy. Ongoing prayers for more improvement and adjusting to a new way of life for both weegie and he dh dd has Perthe's syndrome , where the hip joint dies then regrows. Thank God for an improvement in her condition and further improvements so no op is needed.
welshcerys- family and a mega toothache
Wisteriawoman (phew, remembered this time!)
ZipidiSoozi- welcome back!
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.

dd is not well. not exactly sure what, but not well.

ds has his appointment at the consultant paediatrician on thursday so could do with prayers to find it on time after the school run.

Praying for all. Am away from home for work tonight and have a headache now because I allowed myself to be persuaded to have a glass of wine with dinner! (Not that I don't drink, but I have to be careful with wine as it often doesn't agree with me... gah ).

Oma ... That sounds positive.

Mary ... praying.

Don ... Good news. Can you let the up-north house? Visiting academics or more mature postgrads often need short or logger term single accommodation. (Am assuming from your name that you're an academic?). Good luck.

Amber, Jan, juggling, PA, BES ... Thinking of you all.

Praying, especially, for dd1 tonight. She's on a school trip which involves two nights on a ferry and one day abroad and she started her periods yesterday (impeccable timing!). Luckily she isn't worried at all (unlike me... my baby is all growed up!!!). Prayers for a safe/smooth crossing, no embarrassing period-related incidents and hopefully a little sleep (hmm... four twelve year olds in a cabin... ).

*longer, obviously! Typing on iPad.

Lovely to read your update DO.

TUO you are asking for a massive miracle if you want 4 excited 12 year olds, on a boat, in a small cabin to actually SLEEP!!!!! Prayers for your DD, though, for a lovely, trouble free trip.

ds had a nightmare again. screamed in terror. the look of terror on his face was awful and his dive onto my bed into my arms would have broken a world record for speed.

How are you both this morning do?

Still feeling low. Seem to fight off the urge to cry daily. Not sure if it's Dad's rejection of me now or the fact I haven't heard from the chap I'm casually dating since Friday. He is very busy and things are stressful for him. I need to just focus on God and my kids. Wish I could snap out of this

pops over to see if it is wednesday not thursday... oh dearr.

Ah Tuo - thinking of your DD1 - that's nice that she's off on an exciting school trip with her friends, and seeing as it's her first period just started maybe it will be quite light and over before she knows it ? I'm sure her friends can be supportive and friendly, especially if one of them has started theirs already. I think this generation manage to be more open and cool about it than we did !
Hope it all goes well for her anyway

Sorry you're feeling low tea - I'm so sorry your Dad wrote such a horrible letter. I think that's very immature of him, and irresponsible too. Perhaps he will calm down and come round in time ? What's he meant to be so upset about ?
Surely not that you and they had some different ideas about parenting ! Doesn't that happen in every generation to every family ? Hope you hear from your chap, that would be nice !
What are your DCs up to at the moment ?

Hi bes - sorry to hear about DS's nightmare last night - at least he knows he can come to you for a good cuddle

We are ok this morning. Still feeling positive. Made the decision to put off any holidays/respite care until after the thingy is in place. Pretty scary, but we are coping.

just found out that mum collapsed on saturday and dd hd the paramedics out...

they are still poorly and mum has a great big cut cross the back of her head. (eek) they ddidn't tell me as they did not want to worry me.

Oh, poor Mum, bes - hope she's OK

Thinking of you DO - glad you and Bob saw a more positive consultant - that's very encouraging

Hope she is OK BES, how awful :(

DO such good news. The power of prayer! Hope the new machine helps a lot, if it is CPAP I know a few users and they swear by it. So pleased!

Praying for you TACP - so sorry things are so hard for you.

Continuing to pray as I read through.

Having a bit better day again :)

BES - Hope your mum gets better soon, and prayers for your daily hectic life 'superwoman' xx

TAC - Prayers for you hope you feel brighter this afternoon xx

DO - 'Tigerwife' glad you came away happy from Brompton, prayers Bob gets sorted soon xxx

Mary - Hugs and prayers for you xx

Thank you all for your support over my resignation, letter written, but wanted to speak to my boss first and she is not available till tomorrow, so time standing still this week.

Is that the sunshine trying to peek out?????????

Prayers all round...and hugs...and

Eek about collapsed Mum, BES! Hope they find out what did that and stop it doing it again.

Juggling - it's pretty complicated. My family is dysfunctional. Dad's aggressive and abusive behaviour is normalised. I've had at least 18 months of nonsense with my parents smacking my children for me when visiting and then asking them not to, to then them telling me I should smack them, when they couldn't and so on. So I asked for space and that back fired too. Can't win. Dad won't calm down. He has barely spoken to his sister for 40 years. And spoke badly about my brother for 10 years until he fixed it by repeatedly apologising and accepting all blame. It's still a bit shaky between them though.

My man did text me earlier. But he just has too much going on. Need to look God for affirmation right now. Nothing else.

DD at school and DS and I did mums and tots this morning.

TACP - That is awful for you, must be so hard dealing with the confrontation and upset, prayers your dad finds a kinder way of dicipline, and prayers for YOU! xx

Caused a lot of trouble here when DGP yanked DS angrily out of tree (similar to smacking him but I begged him not to) - to make him come inside for a meal at theirs when he was fairly little. DH was not impressed to say the least. (when told later) Neither was I. And it spoiled DS relationship with DGP and he still mentions it sometimes several years later. And that was just the one time.

So I sympathise hugely on the smacking issue. On other side of family there have been various crazy letters and serious fallings out with people not seeing each other for years. Very sad Families should try hard to stick together and offer some support. The older generation should be generous and lead by example on this.

Yes, so you can imagine how I felt when Mum claimed that she wanted to be a support to me as a lone parent in her comments last week. Her attitude for the last 2 years has been anything but. As she also hasn't offered to babysit, do any childcare or have them for even a day in the last 2 years. Although it's not possible with my Dad anyway

Hope you're feeling God's support, tea.

My mum wouldn't do any of those childcare things, but she is supportive in her attitude. She does find letting me be in charge of discipline almost impossible, though. Mind you, her big lack of understanding comes from the dcs acting much more like dh as a boy than how I was as a girl...

And that can be pretty exhausting for me, too. Another week with dh away; another bedtime with strops, opposition and whining. Bedtime takes an hour and a half, to get them all down, one after the other. I'm drained...

Prayers tea

mary, how are you doing?

What does your H do for a living Wellies? The chap I'm dating is a pilot and away a lot. I sometimes think how would it be if we settled down?