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

Prayers for all today.

Praying for jan. You've done a very brave thing today. I'd like to second the words of amber and juggling. By all means explore every option... but keep yourself and your dd safe.

Praying for your dd to be better soon, BES.

Praying for your children to adjust to their dad being away quickly, lost, and for forbearance in the face of grumpiness.

We've turned a page (as it were) and I've got the memory span of a gnat tonight (well, I did get up at 4.30 a.m. to see dd2 off on her trip) so I can't remember who else I need to pray for today from the other page.

I am praying for happiness, health and love for all of us. And I am thinking especially of expat's dd, of UA's ds and of baby Beatrice.

Eeeeeuurghh! Have found the source of the dodgy smell that's been in our kitchen the past two or three days - a dead mouse that was rotting behind the fridge.

Dead proud of myself for sorting it out by myself! Not going to eat again this week, though...

eeew lost! fair play to you for dealing with it by yourself. currently baby is trying to sleep, dog is screaming in the kitchen because he wants attention, and i just want 5 minutes to clear my head.

thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers about my situation. the counsellor phoned me today and asked me to think about how i would cope if i stayed, how i would feel if i leaved, what life would be like either way and wether im truly happy, before our one to one session. lots of food for thought.

lots of love and thoughts and prayers for you all baby not sleeping so got2go

posted and ran last night, read later.

well done lost. I think it is worst when h is there sometimes for these things. if only it had been found when he was there. I think you do well coping with here sometimes and not here other times. it must be quite asad waving goodbye every now and again.

h left this morning having found out that he is not contagious and can go back to immunocompromised mum.

LM has had another legal bill through and now cannot afford to do any unessential travel. I.e. no seeing me I suspect, as I'm an hours drive from him Please pray for a break through, I feel selfish for feeling so gutted that I may see him even less now, considering the nightmare he is going through Gah! Please pray this gets to court soon, there is a good and just judge and a resolution is reached for his sake and for the kids

Oh tea...praying this will all resolve soon - must be so hard for him and for you.

Praying for you Jan...

Just dipping in very quickly as I'm at work.

A very cross aggressive colleague has just yelled at me for 15 mins and I'm feeling very shaky.

Trying to think how it must feel to be him and to be so angry and unhappy and tense all the time (he makes a habit of this... though this is the first time I've had it face-to-face, normally he just sends me angry emails and face-to-face is much scarier). It must be tough for him.

But I'm afraid I'm only compassionate to a point. Mostly, at the moment, I'm just cross and shaken and upset.

Getting a grip now. Will come back later in a less 'me-me-me' frame of mind.

tuo, have you got a manager to complain to, because that behaviour is not acceptable n the workplace. hope you feel better soon. it can be quite scary.

Eeek TUO, whatever his problem is, he shouldn't take it out on you!

Prayers also for you TACP

Am also shaky here, DD (year 7) was hit on the bus and also verbally abused with some EXTREMELY foul language by a year 7 boy (the same boy who she had problems with at primary school, aka brat out of hell, you might remember him). She has slapped him back... I have phoned the school.

Oh no Mary :( How is DD now? Sounds like she stood up for herself - awful that this could happen on a school bus. Hope she is OK - and you - praying.

TUO, that's shocking, agree about speaking to a manager. Hope you are OK.

Huge prayers

oh mary. when are they getting back to you?

dd is still spotty and green. ds has a green hue and i am not immune either...

I am flopping whilst dd is in the bathroom turning that green and skiving off cleaning the grreen off the table.

somehoww, heat and lack of slepp have conspired to make me think it is a good idea to make a jungle...

bes - I saw you at the school gates today! Well, your name anyway - there was a plant sale. :o There were lots of little "you"s there, almost a mini-jungle!

DD is fine. It sounds like that he didn't hit her deliberately as in thump her, rather he was flailing and trying to push her away. But the language was enough to make a navvy blush . When they got off the bus, he tried to say "can we pretend this never happened" but it had gone a bit far by then. The school is seeing them both separately tomorrow.

jungles... don't mention jungles ds has gone to bed with a grreen armpit.

Mary, hope it all goes well tomorrow.

ta da...

I'm back. Thanks for your thoughts: it helped to know that I'd offloaded it here. I can't go into details here as it's too public, but it's being properly looked into. Meanwhile, I'm so cross that I've let him knock my confidence, even though I know he's wrong when he says that I'm incompetent etc. I've found myself replying to people tonight on various issues and instead of being confident in my responses, I've been thinking 'I wonder, if I say this, if they'll think I'm [variously] weak/power-crazed/incompetent/crazy/useless'. Praying that I get over it quickly so that I can do my job properly. Also praying that Aggressive Man finds some sort of peace in his heart (and stops upsetting me and my staff!).

BES: Liking the Jubilee name! Glad that h has been allowed to go home.

Mary: Praying for your dd. That's so very sad. Is she generally happier now she's at secondary school?

Jan: Thinking of you and praying that your counselling session will help you to get things straighter in your own mind. Sounds as if (s)he is asking the right sorts of questions.

Lost: Respect for dealing with the dead mouse of doom. As a teenager I once came home to find a note from my sister: 'Dear Tuo. Cat has had a mouse. I've found the head end. See if you can find the back legs and tail before mum and dad get back. Love Sis'. I am to admit that I went straight back out again! Sending coping prayers for while your dh is away - though you don't need them, clearly... you are Hero of the Day!

TaCP: Sorry that things are so tough for you and for your LM right now. Praying that things will turn a corner for you both soon.

Thinking of Bird today, and praying for FoD.

Grateful that this thread is here.

She does like secondary school, and is happier there, but it does seem harder to sort things out at times, although thats not down to the school, more because most problems seem to happen on the bus

Tuo what an awful thing to have to experience at work - i hope you can recover quickly from that, it is understandable that it would affect your confidence. i hope they deal with it properly!

Mary thinking of your dd its so unfair for her to have to dread getting the bus everyday, not how life is supposed to be at all.

i need prayer for strength - im not sleeping at night much, and am so drained and upset more probably cos im tired.

thinking of each of you

it is going to be toasty hot here today and dd is still off school so we should really stay in. I need to wash up and get dd's homework finished and ought to hear her read do writing. I am tired and grumpy and feeling contraryand am fed up of counting and threatening time out. at least he is responding to counting. dd is fab and I rarely get further than one. ds on the other hand...

aw bes--- praying you'll get through the day intact! Love the jubilee name.

Praying for strength for you, Jan.

Having a quick coffee and sunshine break. Getting more into writing now finally. Need to stick to it more otherwise it will never get done....I need a deadline really, I'm so bad at motivation! On a happy note, the warmer weather means I feel so much better. Hope it stays as we're camping in half term.

he definitely knows what he is doing. he wanted to get the electronic box out of a soft toy and i refused, got to 2 so he went off and sulked... then came back and said " go upstairs" nice try ds but you are so transparent... he hid on the sofa and did it when he thought I was not looking. he is now upstairs.

oh ell, it is nearly lunch time and then time to send him for a sleepy. [mean mummy emotion]

get on with the writing mhd. [too hot to care emotion]

OK someone pep talk me?

LM flew into Luton today and we spoke lots last night online and we agreed to meet for coffee, he said he'd call. He didn't

His flights can get changed last minute etc. I just can't find the perspective needed right now. I arranged for DS to spend a few hours with his Dad which involved an 80 min round trip and lots of petrol too Feel so gutted.

I want to cry. This is so hard. I want to be a good friend, but I was looking forward to it. I was happy to just be there for him.

oh heck tea. how verry disappointing. (((hugs))) I have no perspective to offer I am afraid. i want to cry for you too. and petrol is so bloody expensive when it seems as it was spent for nothing. more ((((hugs))))

and prayers of course