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

ses

oh dear. I am going to have to get official with school as they are yet again fobbing me off. (did so with the iep) thinking about putting an official data protection request in which is notthe way I wanted to go. I wwanted to do it nicely and low key but they are not playing ball.

SES your poor friend :( Praying. Does she have dc?

Oh bes....that sounds hard work...hope it works out ok and you can get the data etc without too much hassle.

praying for all. Mary, how is the situation regarding dd now? PA hope you're going ok - so exciting! And lost, thinking of you a lot.

Blue - how is it going with you? We could do a holiday meet up if you feel up to it? town park maybe? :)

That is totally devastating news about your friend SES.

Prayers for her and for all of you struggling (and those posting on the EA board as well).

Well, we had dd and 2 dgcvisit yesterday. Dgc came to church with me and were impeccably behaved.

"Mummy we had to sit right at the end and there was this little pool and people went in it, right under, but we couldn't." They said they would come again. The rest of the day went very well too, but Zac would not speak to his grandad, he barely spoke to me, but that was alright. He had barely seen us for two months.

praying. thats awful SES..may God have mercy and comfort her and her husband
DO im sorry about Zac, i hope you get to see more of him in the coming days and he'll get more comfortable around you both, but im glad the day went well
thinking of you all.
tomorrow i have an appointment to see about the housing, WA will be supporting me. it will still all take a few months.... i keep changing my mind about everything, and am confused now as to how much he is changing, and am not sure if the only reason things have been a bit better is cos we have stopped counselling so no challenge there, and cos im trying to do everything to keep the peace. hard to know what to do - but even if i have a trial separation it might give us both time to think as obviously i haven't been happy and things haven't been right even if they are not as bad right now. i will only get one chance to get a house you see, then i would have to wait like another 2 years. so please pray for wisdom for me, for god to give me peace about the right thing to do... that he will even do something that will confirm to me its right to move out (something bad enough!) or that he will turn things right around and be so lovely and supportive that i will know to stay. maybe this is asking too much? xo

DO so glad they came to visit but sounded hard too. what is the EA board?

Jan...praying right now that the housing situation will get sorted and for peace for you.

Emotional Abuse (in relationships)

I'm ok! thanks mhd still lurking and praying! pretty busy as I'm preparing for holiday club in 2 weeks, and we're away next week in Belgium to visit my family and my sister with my hopefully by then born godson. :) She's due today and haven't heard from her yet, she had an appointment at hospital today and will probably be induced...

I'm 23 weeks now and all is going well! Met a lovely lady vicar today who was introduced to me as she has lost 9 babies in 7 pregnancies, all early miscarriages and it was suggested it would be good for me to meet her.
It's been a year today since we had Sterre's funeral, can't believe it went that quickly!

Holiday meet up would be lovely mhd, probably best in the week starting 13th August :)
DD1 loves town park, so that would be great!

last dayof term.

Urmmm I've not posted on here in a while, but I was wondering if I could ask for some prayer. DH has gone and lost our one and only set of car keys, we can't afford a new set. Can people pray they turn up please?

I would really appreciate it.

I always think the Catholics are good with prayers in those situations Tribble

Don't they have a Saint for lost things ?

And I think also a Saint for lost causes if things get really bad - and you might be looking for a cause with your NN

All the best with finding those keys

Couldn't get on for a few days. Yes I have asked him to leave but he flew into a rage and said I have to leave but various threats have made me scared to do that (my biggest fears around how it would effect DS and H would try to take him away from me). I don't want to end up in hiding.

OW finished with him but I think he's hoping she will change her mind. If I listed all the horrible things he's said to me over the last few weeks I would be here typing all day.

Yes I have support from family and a few friends with more friends gradually getting to know what's going on as time goes by.

Momeraths I believe your prayer the other day has been answered I am not the tearful wreck I was a few weeks ago, I know now that this isn't my fault no matter what he says, I didn't drive him to it, I can see now what he is really like for the first time in years. But my options seem rather limited at the moment my best bet for now is to keep everything amicable if I can.

I may ring the helpline you suggested, almost did it earlier but bottled out. Maybe later. Thanks again for the good advice.

Someone need a Catholic?
St Anthony is patron saint of lost things (and St Jude the patron saint of hopeless cases!)
Tribble - I'll send a petition up and some prayers.

Kaykat - it most definitely is not your fault. Praying for you.

DO - what an answer to prayer that your DD and GC came :) that is a good start and I pray that that is something to build on and Zach will be able to interact with you and Bob more.

Continued prayers for all of you. Thinking especially of Lost, PA, Jan, MHD, expat*

Thanks for all the prayers and I have been praying as I have read through and caught up with everything going on here.

Well, here I am!! Feeling a bit shell shocked!! We are all being eaten alive by mosquitoes, please pray that we become more immune to them or they at least leave us lone and we will stop scratching! I will come back soon and post more about life here, but we are just expecting some vistors, so must dash off. Just wanted to pop in and let you all know that we have arrived safely.

Kaykat Womensaid is great. Abusers usually threaten that they'll get custody of the kids or similar, to keep you in your place.

Please don't chicken out of calling Womensaid, it's just a phone call, they won't make you do anything you're not ready to do. They're all so lovely and will advise you on what to do, they're very kind. Praying for you x

This is just a quick post, I'll read everything better later.

Waving to PA and praying for all lost cases and causes.
Thank God no-one is lost to Him.

Hello PA! Praying those mozzies leave you alone :)

Bah! It's too warm and bright and the DCs are mucking about and not settling and I'm turning into a grumpy mummy

PA Vitamin B1 is fab for making you not so tasty to mosquitoes, my mum swears by it, as she is always bitten to death x

at least yours are in bed mome... we are a little late with tea. it is still on the stove/in the fridge. when the pasta is nearly ready i will go and extract it and bung it in the microwave.

it is very hot here. a west facing flat with no retreat to the cool sideand only the little top windows open. ds fell asleep on the way home from school so we sat in the car and read in the shade. dd has finished her library challenge, I am struggling with mine, trying to read to kill a mocking bird.we then had icecreams in the garden and a bit of a play before we have come in rather late to do tea with me draped over furniture like wet washing.

glad you are safely arrived, even if you are now lunch dinner tea and breakfast for the local mossies

I'm ruthless on bedtime as I need the break

Prayers of praise and thanksgiving for the safe arrival of my nephew/godson! :) And he's a really good size too, 7lbs40z so there was no need at all to worry about him being small!

I think I've heard marmite is quite good for putting off the mossies - probably has lots of B1 ?
Good to hear you've arrived safely, PA

It's a bit warm here too isn't it all ?

PA - yes, vitamin B1 for repelling the mozzies! Vitamin B1 can be quite hard to get on it's own sometimes so a vitamin B complex (as long as it has vitamin B1 in it would work too).

Blue - brilliant news about the safe arrival of your nephew. Hope he and your sister are doing well.

BES - To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the best books ever . I do find it a struggle to read these days though. It's so hard to completely switch off and immerse in a book.

MomeRaths - hope the DC eventually slept.

Tribble - did the keys turn up?

Thank you for your prayers for my friend. I've not heard any more yet but there's a few of us putting a care package together for whilst she's in hospital. She's in her mid 30s and doesn't have any DC.

Also prayers please for the daughter of a friend from church. The daughter (in her mid 40s with 2 DSs) started on ADs about 6 months ago and seemed to be doing well but has now had a complete breakdown and was sectioned a few weeks ago. She's now back home but struggling and it's really hard on the DSs and my friend who (in her 70s) is travelling back and forth the 80 mile round trip to support her daugher and grandsons.

On a brighter note, today is my mum's birthday so me, DS and DD are going out for a pub lunch with my parents to celebrate :)

I've got a vaguely quiet moment here whilst DD sleeps and DS is happy playing so prayers for each of you in the various situations you are all in. Thanking God for this thread and all who share and support through it. Asking for God's blessing on each of you and for you to feel His love and presence with you today and always.

Prayers

Good quote from Jeff Lucas this morning which I'm also going to post on Facebook: "Faith does not deny that the challenge is real, but that God is bigger than the challenge."
Praying that we may all feel that is true and that we can trust the God of miracles.
Quote came in the context of the walls of Jericho.

Thanks DO, I like that quote.
I found it helpful when thinking about my relationship with DH.
Lots of issues there, but possibly not insurmountable.

We've had two nice family outings recently with virtually no arguing in the car either there or back. I've said how unhappy I am about constant arguing in car, and how much I'd like to see that change. Possibly DH may have taken that on board a bit, and maybe realise that constant bickering including significant EA at times in car is far from normal. He still thinks it's a 50/50 thing I think - which it def isn't. But still ... progress ? Yey