A new Christian prayer thread, just in time for Easter!

[Tuo]

Welcome to our new prayer thread... just in time for Holy Week and Easter.

This is a safe and supportive place of prayer, where regulars, occasional visitors and lurkers, committed Christians and those just dipping a toe into the water are all equally welcome. Come and leave a prayer, tell us what's going on in your life, bring your worries, hopes, fears and joys to God, and know that you will be prayed for.

We pray, in particular, for...

... amberlight, for her work raising awareness of the ways in which we can work to make life easier for our autistic friends, and for her to know love and acceptance wherever she goes;

... Badvoc and her family, as they grieve for her dad and for her aunt - this has been a very tough time for the family... may spring bring them happier times;

... BlackEyedSusan, for all the many things which she has to juggle in her life as a single parent; in particular, we pray for her mum's health, and for both her DC to receive the support that they need at school, and for her to feel welcomed, accepted and supported at her church;

... BlessedAssurance, for breast-feeding to settle down for her following the birth of her baby son, for her relationship with her extended family (and in particular her MIL and her bonkers baby-naming ideas ), and for her parents who are far away;

... CharlotteCollins, for her new life as a single mum - may she be happy and fulfilled and supported in it;

... DontstepontheMomeRaths, for her life as a single mum, for support for her to do all the things she'd like to be able to do, for her DC, for difficult relationships at work, and for the wonderful work she does through her church supporting people going through separation and divorce;

... DutchOma, as she grieves for Bob, that she may find peace of mind, love and support at this time;

... Gingercurl, for her relationship with her DH, for the final 'tweaks' to her thesis, and for friendship for her DS;

... ALittleFaith, for baby Faithlet as she approaches her first birthday, for Faith's work to bring her joy and not exhaustion, and for her to find happiness and fulfilment in her church;

... jan2014 for her to understand what the right thing to do is vis-a-vis her relationship with her DH, and for her to have the courage to do what needs to be done, and to find support in doing it; also for her new church to be a place where she finds love and support and welcome;

... JugglingFromHereToThere, for her sister and her family as they grieve the loss of Juggling's nephew;

... Kaykat, giving thanks that she is now settled and happy in her new home with her DS, and continuing to pray for her situation, that she receive the moral and practical support she needs for herself and her DS

... MadHairDay, for her health to improve this spring and for her to stay out of hospital, and for health, friendship, and freedom from bullying for MHD's DD;

... PandaG, as she and her family grieve the loss of her mum; and for

... PositiveAttitude, praying for the right outcome for PA's DH as he decides between a career opportunity at home and a return to Cambodia; also praying for PA's parents health, for her DD3 and DGS as they move into their own home, and for her other three DDs and one DS in their various situations; and finally praying for peace for PA herself and - whatever happens work-wise in the UK and/or abroad - for God to provide for her and her family.

We pray also for all regular and occasional visitors, and those we haven't seen for a while, including: boxofdelights, bountyicecream Bluetinkerbell, CheerfulYank, cloutiedumpling, EasyCompadre, FairPhyllis, fluffieduckie, FriendOfDorothy, GoodbyeRubyTuesday, harbinger, JakeBullet, ktef, LollipopViolet, MaryBS, NeverKnowinglyUnderstood, niminypiminy, notquiteagrownup, PloddingDaily, revivingshower, RoomForALittleOne, saintsalive, SchrodingersFerret, SEStheBrave, Soozi, SunshinemMum, thegreenheartofmanyroundabouts, thehorridestmumintheworld, trish5000, weegiemum, youretoastmildred, ZingSweetApple, and zulubump, and for anyone I've forgotten to name-check (don't take it personally, please!). And we pray for those who read and pray but don't post, for those who need our prayers but are afraid or too uncertain to post them, and for all those known to us in our own lives who need God's love.

Keep Your people, Lord, in the arms of Your embrace.
Shelter them under Your wings.
Be their light in darkness.
Be their hope in distress.
Be their calm in anxiety.
Be strength in their weakness.
Be their comfort in pain.
Be their song in the night. Amen

I drop kids at School and head to work, work through lunch and then leave, grab groceries at high speed if needed and go and collect kids. The days fly by. I am often tired. No chance for naps. I struggle to balance reading the kids books, cooking healthy meals and housework tbh. But life is loads easier than when they were little.

I'm feeling anxious about the training day. Not many have signed up. I'd love more churches to run the course. Still got awhile yet. I have a lot of admin I need to do but I think I ought to go to bed and tackle it tomorrow night. Please pray. It feels rather huge in my head right now.

Thinking of you Mome. Sleep well x

Getting enough sleep is often a sensible strategy. Hopefully it will feel less overwhelming after some rest. Will pray.

Blessings for all, specially Mome

Praying as I read through.

Thank you Oma and Charlotte.

Well I had a meeting this afternoon about the Mgt Co where I live. Yes I'm a director for that too! I do some work for that but less than for the divorce course and now tonight I need to do some work for both. Kids in bed. Time to run dishwasher, make a cuppa and tackle admin for both.

I'm glad I do voluntary admin for both organisations. I like serving/ helping others. I love admin and I'd spend my time watching trash on telly otherwise. But I do want an early night. So it's the old 'how do you eat an elephant?' One bite at a time. I can do some tonight and more this weekend. Little by little I'll get it done.

Sometimes I think my need to be useful is my people pleaser tendencies. Wanting to feel needed, wanted and valued. Not sure it's all altruistic doing these things I do

Still God is good. Both kids are tired and have gone to bed ok. Not always the case in casa del Mome.

Anyway I suspect my grammar above is terrible but I better get on with it and not proof read my brain dump above. Bye for now lovely ladies.

Don't stay up too late. If you try for a slightly early night today you'll feel a load better tomorrow.

wiped out here. ex just called to collect dd till tomorrow. had argument with him - first argument since we started marriage counselling. feel such hatred in my heart which i will have to bring to God and just let go. of course he blamed us arguing on me going 'on and on'. idiot. im so tired at the minute. i am going to visit a friend who is really really struggling in a bit, then i think i will just have to crash. please pray for me to have strength for my friend.

Hope you're ok jan? It's difficult to keep your cool sometimes when so much has happened.

Hope you had a nice time with your friend Jan and supported each other. If you were going on and on then you must be anxious about something and reassurance would have been better than arguing with you. Sometimes I find it oddly helpful when ex annoys me. Reminds me that I've done the right thing separating. It's when he's nice that it gets confusing.

thanks i had a nice time with my friend but since ive come home ive just sat on the sofa im too tired... going to change doc practises and go again because its really getting me down.

yes this morning was hard and starting the day like that didn't help much - its weird to think i used to live like that all the time - emotional turmoil, and i did do the right thing with separating. the thing is, he accused me of going on and on but the reality was he asked me to swop the times he was seeing dd next week, i said no, and he kept giving reasons and excuses why he couldnt do it, and i answered no again, and it went back and forth like that, so to me it didn't feel like i was going on and on, it just felt like we were both arguing, but to me he should have taken no for an answer (and previously we had discussed that 1. he is not to bring stuff like this up at handover and 2. if he can't do a day he was supposed to he needs to arrange the childcare if i have something planned (ie dd goes to his mums) so we were covering things that he shouldn't have brought up. it was also my fault that i should have just said 'im not talking about this anymore' but its so exhausting always having to do that, but i realise i need to keep doing that to protect dd, she actually ended up in tears in the car - impatient toddler, but i felt terrible, totally unfair on her and exactly what i was trying to avoid.

Oh Jan it sounds exhausting and horribly familiar it sounds like he always wants the last word so he can think that he won the argument. It doesn't sound like you were at fault at all.

Hello. I'm back!

Praying tonight for all those of us who take on too much and have lots to do, for those who are tired, for those who feel unsupported. Jan, I am praying in particular for you - for answers from the new doctor [good move to change practices] and for your XH to treat you with more respect and to stick to agreed behaviours at handover time for your DD's sake.

Also praying for MHD's health, for Oma in Holland, for PA, for Juggling and for all who've recently lost a loved-one, and for the clergy, ordinands, readers and all those on this thread (greenheart, niminy, Mary) and in our lives who've worked so hard over the last couple of weeks, and who must be wrung out by now.

From tonight's Northumbria Compline:

Save us, Lord, while we are awake,
guard us while we are asleep;
that, awake, we may watch with Christ,
and, asleep, may rest in His peace. Amen

Thank you TUO.

Some of you will have seen on fb that I have to go into hospital for IVs. It was inevitable really as this latest bout has been going on too long. Consultant was lovely and concerned I should have been in before now. Bit cross at gp.

Anyway just waiting for a bed, should be monday as my drugs are apparently a bit complicated for weekend staff to start

so I would really, really appreciate prayers....feel nervous as I hate it but also relieved as things just aren't right. Hopefully it will give me a boost for the summer.

love and prayers for you all

Tuo lovely prayer thank you for support

poor you mhd. glad its getting sorted, no wonder you are nervous. hugs

I had forgotten how much work a new born is. Lurking and trying to read but my little boy likes to sleep on me so i am not getting anything done.

home. mega melt down from me today as there was too much to do in too little time. the childrena re just getting to bed now.

the computer is still temperamental.

i stayed a day too long and was not able to cope. trying to do all the stuff I wanted to do and promised the children whilst fending off mum from asking about stuff that is not important.

potatoes planted.
easter garden made
sunflowers planted.
front garden weeded and planted with spare plants.
packing done.

I am hoping my newly sprouted wheat as fine as hairs has survived being trodden on by a clod hopping boy trying to watch the trench being dug for the potatoes.

oh dear BES you sound you need a good rest! im sure you are so proud of all you done too.

God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear....ps46

nervous about church today. lovely sunny day here.

also nervous about church. hoping that we can actually attend.

rather than be in the building but noot able to access the service.

How did it go bes praise God mine went much better than expected

better than expected here too. and I managed to turn up on the week of the annual meeting, and I have managed to ask a question of the pcc. oh and the vicar is leaving which is quite weird... in that, well although they are very nice and lovely and do good teaching, they are not very good at ASD and integrating lone parents and the head teacher at school is leaving and he is not very good at SEN/gifted. we are now wait and see in both situations.

Great to hear that church wasn't as bad as expected.

MHD - sorry to hear that your lungs are still playing up. Praying the antibiotics help things to clear up quickly.

Prayers for all tonight, but especially for MHD as she prepares to go into hospital. Praying for a swift recovery, excellent care, and lots of distractions. Praying, too, for MHD's family at this time. We read Psalm 121 tonight, and this is for MHD: 'The Lord will keep you from all harm - he will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore'.

Praying also for jan and BES, thanking God for better-than-expected experiences today, and praying that this positive turn continue. Praying that the various 'Limbo scenarios' in BES's life are resolved for the better, and also holding BES's mum in prayer.

From tonight's Northumbria Compline:

Keep Your people, Lord,
in the arms of Your embrace.
Shelter them under Your wings.
Be their light in darkness.
Be their hope in distress.
Be their calm in anxiety.
Be strength in their weakness.
Be their comfort in pain.
Be their song in the night. Amen