May time-Christian prayer thread

[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.
Aspirantpiate-studying and a new job in September
Bafana, Thesober-single parent to teen/preteen Pray for a friend who has a brain tumour
Becaroooo- ongoing health problems that are now starting to be investigated
Beatrice Primrose and cupoftea poorly baby and support for the family
birdofthenorth prray for comfort and support after the loss of her baby at 8 weeks of pregnancy
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
Don in killerheels-hous
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- pray that the pregnancy will stick and bleeding to stop.
Gingercurl- things are stressful at home, studying for PhD, high blood pressure
heyyyo-dd with health issues.
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
Lovelyman access arrangements and maintenance. (and his SO prefers kissing wookies? eeuuu)
Madhairday- reoccuring lung infections, dd with psoriasis/partial hearing and unhelpful school and getting bullied. SATs week. 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.
MrsMcCave -hello!
Nanniejo- family and weddings abroad
Nickelhasababy pray for friends who have lost babies.
Notevenamousie- curently undergoing treatment as an inpatient. recently lost her mum.
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.
Starwisher-pray for a job for dh
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
ZipidiSoozi- welcome back! GCSE season for ds
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. Parents poorly, mum collapsed- investigations to find out why. Mil with lifelimiting cancer

phew, I have caught up.

((hugs do))

my eyes arerr still a bit stare-y after driving several hours to get home, then jigging about as ds messed about in the garage (gravity and cold wind are not a good combination if your last wee was in cardiff and one is now in the w mids after being stuck on 4 different motorrwways in crawling traffic) I have had a bath and the hair is not longer sculptered by wind into a stiff salt and sand encrusted spikes out of the side of my head like a tree hugging the cliffs in a prevailing wind...

talking of wind, it was a bit blowy down in pembrokeshire this morning. (think blowing the car door shut as soon as it is opened and difficulty walking and fallen trees) thank god we made it home in one piece, if a little stiff.

Can I ask for a prayer for my mother Katherine and my brother?

Praying...
... for BES... welcome back, well done on doing all the driving, surviving the gales and ... err ... not wetting yourself . Pembrokeshire is lovely, though, isn't it? We were there a year or so ago.
... for redrubyshoes... welcome, and prayers for your mum and brother.
... for SES tonight. Looking forward to a birth announcement in the morning maybe. Please God, keep SES safe and well and bring her beautiful baby safely into the world.
... for DO... for you to get the practical help and moral support that you need.
... for jan... that you have got some rest and that your dd is fine and suffering no ill-effects from the choking.
... and for all of us here, posting, lurking, praying, or just wondering.

hi redruby praying. prayers for each of you
anyone doing anything nice over the weekend?
my baby is getting a blessing in church on sunday then our families are going for dinner after.

i am very tired at the minute. dds teething is really hard on her the past week and she hasn't been sleeping, im so exhausted. shes crying a lot. she also feeds a lot during the night, and the HV was out yesterday and said for me to stop feeding her at night so she will spoon feed during the day. she won't spoonfeed much you see. i am reluctant to do this - i don't want my baby to go hungry in the night. and i don't think it will make her spoon feed. hv also said for me not to bf her after she refuses a spoonfeed but to try her again in an hour, i did that yesterday and it didn't work so ended up bfnig her, she ended up starving at 1am. i think hv's whole plan will go pearshaped. i don't know what to do. pray for guidance for me, dd is already really upset at the minute cos of teeth and separation anxiety is starting a bit at night, i don't want to upset her even more and make myself more exhausted.

trust you all have a great weekend and hope the weather picks up a bit

Forget the hv. My nephew won't spoon feed so my SIL has gone for baby lead weaning and things are going much better for her without the stress. Yes he wakes for feeds at night but it's only temporary. By 9 months it will be all change and they will eat solids better. Do not rush her imo.

My only tip is that when mine teethed really badly I always slathered their gums in Bonjela teething gel 10 mins before a feed/ food. As then they ate better if their gums weren't sore. I also always offered teething gel at night before a feed, as sometimes they woke from pain not hunger and often they'd go back to sleep without a feed. But if they didn't I'd give them a quick feed and with the teething gel they'd sleep solidly for 3 hours until it wore off again.

I should have had shares in Bonjela The Teetha homeopathic sachets with Chamomile were also very soothing I found.

She's looking for comfort as her gums hurt so much. That's probably one of the reasons for her extra feeds at night too. Mine always seemed to cope better with their teething in the day and at night they seemed far more agitated. It is exhausting. Is your H able to let you have a nap today and you put some ear plugs in and try and get a little kip? I always found when letting my ExH look after the baby I'd not sleep well and always have an ear out to what was going on. So ear plugs were my only way of switching off to sleep.

I second the baby led weaning. I found the spoon hurt DS2's gums at points and that when that happened he would still eat soft stuff if he could hold it himself. The teething powders also helped, although I have to admit I was very sceptical about them beforehand. Also, would DH give her solids while you were out of the room? I found that DS1 would sometimes refuse solids from me as he knew that I could give him a breastfeed, but would take them from DH if I was out the room.

oooh SES had the baby shall I spill the beans or shall I leave it up to her to announce name?

Welcome to the world Aoife Grace Ses. May the Lord bless you and keep you always.

I second sod the hv advice from tea. if she has sore gums she needs comfort from mummy. try tea's trrick of teething gel. the main food source is still milk at this stage and in our case, baby rice and bananawith 3 spoons... one for each of the small hands and one for mum/dad

congratulations to SES! :):):)

thanks for al the advice. just to clarify, i have been doing the baby led weaning for quite some time now, she is 8 months, and would usualy eat toast, cheese, and some fruit herself - but hardly anything really goes in. id been trying to spoon feed at times alongside this. don'tstep - dh is working today so he can't mind her, but i hope for an early night tonight! I will be using more of the bongela (if she opens her mouth!!) jaffa sometimes she eats better for my mum but not usually from dh. red thats what i heard too - food for fun until they are one, and that milk has everything they need. i thought the hv was a bit off with the advice telling me to give her food instead of milk. i think i will just sod the advice! dh won't be too happy though. he wants to let her cry it out soon at night. shes only 8 months, shes always fed during the night and you are right she needs more comfort now not less. i wil keep going with the bbw and try to spoon feed too but ill not restrict her milk feeds.

Sounds like your hv is old school. Some of them are very about BLW. It's your baby though. I still gave mine a feed at 11pm until about 10 months. They dropped it on their own tbh. I sleep trained for daytime naps and bedtime though. Pick up put down was perfect for DD and meant I didn't feel guilty as I didn't leave her to cry it out. But you do what is right for you lovely lady. I suspect your H thinks that life will be easier if DD sleeps better but life would be better if he started to be kinder to you and more supportive

Jan, have you tried Calpol? I don't give DS over the counter medicine lightly but when he was teething non-stop for six months, that and Bonjela were a godsend. They gave him some relief and enabled him to sleep and eat. I'd give him Calpol first then slather on bonjela for immediate relief while the paracetamol kicked in. He hated the taste of Calpol and pulled faces like I was trying to poison him but somehow seemed to understand when I told him it would help with the soreness and swallowed bravely. When it was really bad and he was in my arms he'd reach for the bonjela tube that I kept on the breakfast bar and hand it to me and point at the kitchen cupboard where we kept the Calpol.
Is she getting nappy rash with it as well? DS' bottom became completely raw. Metanium (yellow cream) is the best thing for it. It clears the rash almost immediately and provides near instantaneous relief.

Don't mean to offend you by pointing out the obvious, but if you do decide to give him Calpol, just make sure you don't exceed the dosage over any 24 hour period. I kept a list on the fridge door where DH/I wrote the day and time whenever anyone of us gave it to him and checked regularly to make sure we weren't giving him too much. In my exhausted, sleep deprived state at the time, I found that was the best way to keep track.

I used Metanium too. It reminded me of cement

Jan my love did you get any more sleep last night?

Metanium - great stuff. Just don't get it on clothes as it stains just as badly as carrot puree.

DO - how are you today? Praying for you and Bob and everyone else on this thread.

Hello all... Just back from church and totally buzzing from one a brilliant sermon. It took what isn't the easiest of gospels (I'm guessing...) and made it into a passionate defence of gay priests, women bishops, the recognition of the deep spiritual value of other faiths, and more besides that I can't quite remember. I can't wait for them to put the video online so I can 'listen again'. I also had a conversation afterwards over coffee with someone (a retired priest) about why I started going to the cathedral and ... oh, you know, my whole 'journey' kinda thing... and it was the kind of conversation that would have had me running for the hills two years ago, but I discovered that I was comfortable with it and could do it and it felt good to talk about it. (And I know I can 'talk' about these things on here, but RL is a whole different kettle of fish... or maybe not so much any more... which is amazing for me.)

Sorry for that big splurge... I am feeling like this -> but also a bit emotional.

Anyway... none of this is a prayer, so here goes:

I am thanking God for how good He has made me feel today and praying that everyone on this thread has a good day today. I'm thinking particularly about DO and Bob, Jan, and SES; but also everyone.

Prayers for Jan and DD's blessing today

Prayers for DO and Bob. Did you get a response from your pastor? I agree that I actually like what you paraphrased. God responds when we are real and honest with him. Even if we feel our faith is the size of a mustard seed.

Thank you for all your prayers for me and Aoife. She is doing really well and although I'm disappointed I didn't get my VBAC, it really doesn't matter in the big scheme of things. We have named her Aoife (which means radiant & beautiful) with Grace as a middle name as I truly believe she is a gift from God.
Hopefully we will go home tomorrow!

Keeping prayers going as I'm reading through...

I'm afraid I have nothing nice to report. Bob has been feeling terrible, quite grumpy with it, which is not like him. I am wondering whether the change of tablets has anything to do with it, but when I rang the epilepsy specialist on Friday she was not back from her holiday, so I will ring again first thing tomorrow morning. We have an appointment to see her on Tuesday, but if we need to sort this out maybe we won't have to go. I doubt really whether Bob is up to it.
Yes I got an answer from our pastor, who said he quite understood and would either get someone else to read the paraphrase or drop it. So long as I could read Psalm 23.
Well we both had a terrible night, so in the end I had to ring him and say I couldn't come at all, both because I was feeling whoozy but also because I didn't want to leave Bob on his own for a couple of hours. He was sympathetic, said he would share it with our senior pastor and the pastoral co-ordinator, but not otherwise.
I've been out in the garden, taming what should have been a camomile lawn but turned into a camomile wilderness. The weather is lovely, but Bob didn't want to be out in it.

oh dear, hope things are better tonight do.

ds is being... ds. annoying his sister, crunching uphis own drawing or throwing things behind furniture and crying when it can't be mended. it is all a bit close to home as his dad behaved like that on holiday (the day some of you prayed) and it is a bit upsetting to see ds doing the same thing

Hi! Great to hear such fab news from ses and praying for others, especially Bob.

I've been having a bit of a crisis of faith. I suppose we're now 6 months down the line, almost to the day, since I fell ill. I have precious little more sensation in my limbs than I had then. We had a fantastic baptismal service today in church. 7 people were baptised, including 4 Iranian Christians who have had to turn their backs on their whole community to convert. And we talked all about Gods promises, about Him bringing life in all abundance (Jn10:10) and plans to prosper you, not to harm you (Jer29:11), of grasping how wide and long and high and deep Christs love is, of being called to bear fruit that will last, of our mourning being turned to dancing, of tasting, and seeing that the Lord is good, and I just realised I'm not there, not getting it, I feel at best an abandoned, at worst actively rejected by the God I've tried to serve for 25 years, who I always thought was good, was love, was on my side.
I still know He's there, he's holy and just and all powerful. But loving? Good? I just don't know any more .

Congratulations from me on this thread too, SES

Hope you have a good night and can get home with dd tomorrow !

I hope Aolfe's life will be filled with grace - I really like some of the words in Amazing Grace,

"Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far, and grace will lead me home."

So, grace for the whole journey ...

Her name "Aoife" is also beautiful and I love the meaning.

The only thing I can hold on to at the moment is: Lord to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life (John 6:68)
I know when Mary (BS) went through her crisis of faith all she held on to was 'baptisatus sum'. Sometimes we are just strap hanging, I would have found it almost impossible to read Psalm 23 this morning.
I found Bob sitting in the crook of the stairs, where he had been for a couple of hours while I had a sleep.

"All I want to do is die," he said, "but I don't know how?"
It was worse for Job, it was worse for Jesus..

Hi all

Catching up and reading through everyone's situations, and praying. May the Lord be with you all.

Can I be very rude & selfish & pop back on to ask for your prayers please? Some of you may remember I had a miscarriage last month, my second. Today would have been my due date had I not miscarried for the first time in November, at 12 weeks. Obviously it was too early to know the gender, but DH & I always felt it was a girl, and I think of her as Phoebe. I am being silly & feel extremely sad today for my sweet girl who I'll never meet. My second lost baby would have been over 12 weeks now, and I know this as a friend has just texted me a scan pic of her little baby, due at the same time mine would have been. We saw our second little baby's heartbeating on a scan even after I has started bleeding- I can't help but contrast that tiny soul with the string clear scan image my friend has sent through. Obviously I am delighted for her -I really am, it's her first, she was brilliant when DD was little and she & her DP will be such wonderful parents, I wish then every joy. But I'm sad for me.

I know my two list babies were not meant to live, so grieving "would have been" dates is silly. I know God has a plan for me, for my family & He knows best. He has been a great comfort but I am still so sad. Crying as I type, even though my wonderful toddler DD who I am so blessed with us asleep in my arms. Please pray for me to snap out of it and be strong -thank you.

Prayers for you all too xx