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.

one more day.... extremely tired. forgot to mention that they are going to be assessing ds at least to rule out autism as there is enough of a query about his behaviour to do that. we are getting bumped through the proocess... we have missed out the parenting course stage... thanks to being a nursery teacher and have missed a further 6 month appointment as the doctor is leaving and she does not want him to get lost in the system. she has recorded in his notes that I did not turn up to the last appointment because I did not receive the letter. [big relieve emotion]

Prayers. For some reason it never saved my last post.

Thank God that I was able to sort out things with DS's teacher though :)

Good to hear about DS's teacher, Mary

DO - Yes, one more meeting. A letter was written on the 21st January and it is still waiting to be discussed!! Have arrived in work this morning and have been informed of a resignation from a key person who does a massive amount of work and has been championing for us. He is going to be a huge loss. He has said he is going on the same day as I leave the job, so there will be VERY rocky times ahead for certain people. It's all falling apart here. I know it is not my worry, because I wont be here, but this has been my spiritual home and family for 28 years and I dont like seeing what is happening. I thank God that He is moving us on and away from the mess.

[jammy sod emotion]

we planned a holiday. I asked about permission to take dd out of school and was told that it should not be a problem... booked a holiday in good faith and then found out that they can no longer authorise holiday so we will have one day of unauthorised absence..... except they have now decided to have a teacher training day that day... therefore authorisation will not be needed.

Phew, bes, that worked out well, then!

PA - I think your church needs a kick up the spiritual posterior. Might not phrase it like that in my prayers. :o

tea - prayers for your good man. I like that phrase jan used: "God will make a way where there is no way."

Am feeling much more rested today. Ha! Do you think it might be something to do with the fact that I have spent some time in worship and contemplation rather than avoiding it like I have been? "Come to me, all you who are weary and heavy-burdened and I will give you rest ... for your souls." I have no excuse of illness or over-full days - I just didn't want to. Ridiculous, isn't it?!

good morning

BES glad you have a holiday to look forward to :)

pa - really sorry about everything thats going on for you at the minute - praying that God will take control and give you his peace

lostmywellies - im glad you had that lovely time with God - i understand what you mean, theres just something gets in the way (im supposed to be worshipping now and im still on the computer!), once you start its fine but its getting to the starting stage but when your in his presence then everything is fine. maybe its the enemy trying to hold us back! for me i feel a bit unworthy or God must be fed up with me even though i know its not true. still we enter by the blood of the lamb.

lovely passage from Ezekiel 16:8
I passed by you and saw you and behold you were at the time for love: so i spread my skirt over you and covered your nakedness. I also swore to you and entered into a covenant with you so that you became Mine, declares the Lord. Then i bathed you with water, washed off your blood from you, and annointed you with oil

i love it right down to verse 15 is beautiful

A bright and beautiful morning here and I think the frost did not get the apple tree, I so praise the Lord for that. It hasn't been so beautiful for years and I really prayed that it would survive the night.
We have a course of new antibiotics for Bob, I was quite concerned that we would be without over the Bank Holiday but for once surgery and pharmacy worked together and a phonecall from me at nine to the tiger receptionist resulted in the abs being delivered at 3.30.
We have also a letter from the Brompton asking for an appointment to be fitted with an NIV but 'at his own request after the 11th June'. So I have phoned the secretary to say we've changed our mind over going on holiday first and can they arrange it as soon as possible. She was so kind and said 'she would see what she could do'.
Wellies I so know what you mean. Actually making time to worship is very hard but you do feel better after it. For me it is a bit of a sadness that I am not really worshipping at church at the moment, I do need to find somewhere, but am afraid to 'let it all out' if that makes any sense.

morning. I actually had a conversation with mum for the first time in a week. she has been too poorly to croak more than a sentence or even come to the phone for a week. there is no news on why she collapsed.

Praying for your Mum BES. That must be so worrying. Do you speak to your dad?

he has been unable to do more than grunt and cough as well. he is not know for his ability to do conversation.

Prayers all round.

Oh my, it's full-on here at Sarum theological college where we're running the disability spirituality weekend. But going really well. Much thanks for prayers...

agggggggggggggjhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. have inadvertently fed dd egg and we have had a mad dash to a pharmacy to get her piriton to take down the swelling round her mouth and now she has thrown up her lunch. i am feeling slightly --> at teh moment and am taking a break from cleaning up.

Oh, poor DD, and poor you bes
Thinking of you all this evening x

Oh BES sweetheart, what a nightmare. Hope things have calmed down now. Funnily enough we saw Doc martin (what an incredibly daft programme that is) and they were talking about anaphylactic reactions.

Glad your apple tree survived the frost, DO! And pleased for the positive things that are happening in relation to Bob's health. Did lol (rather inappropriately, I hope you don't mind) at one thing you said, though: not understanding the medical terms, I thought he must be hoping to be wired up to a specific translation of the Bible!!

DH back in a couple of hours! Maybe staying for 2 weeks, this time! And Mum and Dad up tomorrow for a few days. Yay!

Praying for your mum, bes. How was your time with your mum yesterday, tea?

Hello all. Have had a ridiculously busy week, but am making up for it by having a fairly lazy weekend (... well, for me, anyway; I'm not good at doing nothing).

Praying for all as I read through.
BES - for your mum and your dd
DO - for Bob's health and for you to find a way to connect with a church where you feel comfortable
TaCP - for your meet-up with your mum and for your man and his difficult situation
Nickel - for your friends and their son and DIL
PA - for some more support for you from your church and for a general end to the sense of things falling apart around your ears.

And thanks for Mary's conversation with the teacher, for lost feeling more positive, for DO's tree, for positive meetings with medics for BES and DO.

And prayers for anyone I've forgotten, too.

I would like to offer up some thanks for the fact that I've found someone to act as sponsor for dd2's confirmation next week (and she was really touched to be asked, so I am pleased that I did so). Prayers for dd2 in this last week before she is baptised and confirmed. You people have been here for us since our first tentative steps towards going back to church after many years away in my case. Prayers also for dh who has announced that he doesn't want to attend the service. Bit , because he doesn't seem to see that it means a lot to her (and me), but she will have me and my parents and her lovely sponsor there to celebrate with her (and I've told dd1 that her attendance on this occasion is non-negotiable too). In the end it's dh who's missing out (in so many ways).

oh my goodness lost. he is not at home a lot at all.

I did have a bit of naughtiness though, I offered h the packet of antibac wipes and asked him to clean up... he recoiled in horror, "why me?" he was sent to dress ds whose nappy he had just changed and then did get to help clear up some of the mess... we need to sot out the nasty whiff though.

feel guilty for not checking the ingredients.. although she has had icecream at the pub before.

Things not good between DH and I today. The trigger for the tensions was worry over finances, but what I'm upset about is the way DH has handled this - he doesn't seem able to discuss difficulties without being frankly quite emotionally abusive - and in front of the DCs too. I just wish we could feel like a team or a partnership when dealing with whatever comes along. Very challenging to live with when he behaves like this to me

Please pray that the weekend will bring calmer and happier times here. Hope the rest of the weekend is good for you all too x

Oh yes it's teaandcakeplease I changed my name for May the 4th be with you and forgot to change it back.

Just thinking of the phrase "God can make a way, where there is no way". It reminds me of another old Quaker phrase,

"Way will open"

meaning, I think, not necessarily the one and only way, but also not any old way,
just "Way will open"
God's way if you like. Also picked up "Pilgrim's progress" the other day and enjoyed reading the beginning of that.

I find the image of journeying very helpful, and love phrases that involve that metaphor for life - Maybe because there's nothing I like more than traveling

DH and I sort of made up this morning - as he disappeared into the dust for the day with friends leaving me with the DCs. Still DD is going to a friends this afternoon and staying for a sleep-over so that is something.

Glad your DCs had fun with their cousins Wookiee Love to all x

juggling i am so sorry. i understand some of what you are going through - its so hard. and its so hard not to feel a bit resentful when they just leave you with all the kids. i will be praying that God opens you dhs eyes.

i have a feeling today is going to be a hard day with dh here too...its seems to be shaping up that way but i am hoping old patterns won't repeat themselves

teaandcakes glad you had a good time with your brother :) hope things work out for your friend

Thanks for thinking of me jan - I'll be thinking of you today too and hope things turn out better than they've started

"These three things remain - faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love"

We keep hoping which is good, but there has to be love, both ways, too.

hey juggling - thanks for the scripture...yes there has to be love too. dh keeps saying how much he loves us with all his heart over and over again but his actions are another story. this morning things did blow up a bit - we had an argument - to me we were disagreeing over something (the water heater), but he said i was being 'awkward' and lost his temper when i didn't agree with him in the end. i honestly wasn't being awkward. he also said i was emotionally vulnerable today as an excuse - yes im very tired as i was up a lot last night but no excuse to blame me for him losing it with me just cos im in tears as a result.

anyway juggling, dh is now off for the day too! away to study - i told him too though as i think its easier coping without him than with him. sigh. thinking of you - have you heard from your dh yet, when he'l be home or anything?