Christian Prayer Thread Jan 07 - Blessed are the MNers!

[CaptainCaveman]

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Welcome to January 2007 thread.
Love and prayers to all my lovely virtual fellowship group.

RL - yes the healing service is this evening. I've added you to "the list" for prayers, and will go up for healing. Will remember everyone tonight who needs healing - you too LWTG!

I think its fine to go to another town if that's where you are spiritually at home. Especially if you feel God is calling you back there! Keep praying and he'll let you know whether it's right. Cambridge to Canterbury seems a bit excessive though, there are some decent churches round here too! (She could come and see us for instance!)
Yes its a bit of a shocker about Liam. DH's other sister (the child protection worker) is on holiday abroad - I presume she doesn't know about this latest development? If not, she'll hit the roof when she gets home. We'll find out more when she's back. DH's parents only get told limited amounts.

LWTG - I admire your patience. I just wish he appreciated it too! The bad-temperedness is a common sign of depression, and children don't always understand. I've told DH off many a time for taking it out on the children because he is tired or depressed. Have even done it myself

Oh, and my mother's church (RC), they're starting an Alpha course. That totally surprised me - plus I think they're going to make it ecumenical, which is great news too! Please pray for its success

Hi all,

sorry not had chance to trawl through messages, life been hectic now I have increased my working hours!
CD - is there a motherhood and mental health team where you live (usually hospital based)? I'm in Notts and we have a fantastic team. I went insane about 34 weeks, awful panic attacks etc, but tbh I think I'd been depressed for most of the pg. Gp had also suffered whilst pg so was very proactive in referring me. Yes there are ads you can take in pg but obviously you need close monitoring. Have you checked out your local hospitals website? Or try the Association of Radical Midwives website, they're bound to have good advice about how best for you to get help?

Please can you pray for my left foot? (sounds odd!?) I got a hockey ball smashed into the side of it yesterday and am having difficulty walking, its also very painful. Can't drive as a result, so can't go to church today . Trying to decide whether I need to go to A&E or just rest it and see. I'm not very good at sitting still!

CD the gp told me when I was pg with no 4 that the prob with ad's is that no one has tested them in pregnancy for obvious reasons. So although they don't think they do any harm its just that they haven't been tested. So seeing a different GP might provide the answer/medication you need. Tbh if your mental health isn't good then nothing else is going to be is it. Its a toss up between coping and not i guess. Don't know what i'm trying to say really but if it were me in the same position again I would take the tabs but thats me.

Thanks for all your prayers they mean so much. You lot must be getting so fed up of me the same thing over and over again.

I'm trying to make a shopping list - so far I have washing powder and cleaning spray

We've got a praise and worship service this eve so should be fun. Just a shame dh won't come - oh well his loss.

I've got something else for your Shopping List lwtg - CHOCOLATE!!!!!!! Can't believe you'd forgotten that!! [[hugs] to you honey - Continuing to pray for you every day. xxxx

Praying for your foot Fellow Captain - Ouch!! Go and have it checked out if it doesn't get any better, sounds sore. [hugs] Motherhood & Mental Health Team - I've never heard if them, but doesn't mean we don't have one ... I'm at the hospital for an appointment tomorrow, so I'll ask then. Thank you for the tip - Have to admit, I did LOL a bit at your descrition: "I went insane atabout 34 weeks" - I know what you mean .....

Glad the visit to your mum's was so good Mary - Will pray for Alpha!

Yey! to your DD passing Grade 5 on her cornet lwtg - Great stuff!!

How was chuch Rosey? Any closer to a decision? We're seeing one of our church leaders and his wife soon - to discuss church with them. We're seriously thinking about finding somewhere else.....

Podmog is due on Jan 17th, so that makes her 4 days over now (if she hasn't popped????) Poor thing.

lwtg - praying about job for you too, hope you get an interview - Think the change will do you good!!

Thank you so much for your support and wise words guys - wish I knew you all in RL and we all lived closer. It would be great! (Or perhaps not, may be that's why it works so well here!!!?) )

Interesting thought.

I posted last week about my friend's ds Lewis who is seriously ill.

Just heard that they were able to take him off the heart bypass machine for one minute yesterday and he coped.

This is the best news as things have been unutterably bleak up until now.

Thank you for your prayers. Please continue to remember Lewis and his family. I know they are very grateful and are getting a lot of help through this from their own strong faith. I am in awe of the way they have been coping.

Hello Shona! I have been thinking of poor wee Lewis and his family as they struggle through this heart-rending time - What wonderul news about his progress!! That is fabulous - I pray that he continues to make such super progress - Please do keep us updated and remind us to pray too - we get lots of requests, so you need to keep "bumping"

How is everyone else doing?? Today has been good - only had a couple of moments of panicyness and have enoyed a nice tea out at friends from churches house - Only trouble is - we stayed too long, so DD's wen to bed an hour after their bedtime and are now not settling .... Hope they settle soon. DH and I going to watch a DVD and crash .... tired!!

See you tomorrow!

Shona - that's positive news! Will pray for Lewis.

Last night I went to the healing service, and was asked to take part in the laying on of hands (typical M., no warning of this!). Very humbling and emotional. I prayed for you all and received healing for Rosey "and all those in my thoughts".

Thinking of our community here on MN and the message that was part of the reading last night "If one member suffers, all suffer together"

Good morning!

Shona that's great to hear about Lewis. I am praying that his body continues to strengthen and that those who are caring for him have all the wisdom, patence and faith that they need.

Thinking of you Podmog! Have you started thinking about hot curries and raspberry leaf tea and that sort of thing yet?

How was your praise evening LWTG? I hope it was uplifting! Praying for you.

Mary thank you so much for praying for me! THe healing service sounds lovely. HOw is your training going atm?

Glad you had a good day CD - IMO it's worth the dcs going to bed a bit late once in every while if you all have a lovely time together as a family. Having said that, we are very bedtime-routined in our house!

Well church yesterday was good. THe service was lovely and afterwards dh and I introduced ourselves to the vicar (who has started since we left last time, iyswim). I think she must have thought we were ever so slightly unhinged because we started off by saying hello, then very quickly got into talking about the church we've been going to, what all the issues have been, adult baptism, women's ministry, formal church membership systems...all these really weighty theological issues all tumbling out at once!

She just stood there smiling! We both get the feeling that thses things will simply not be issues there - what a relief. I don't know about making a decision as such, CD, it feels more like we are following our homing instincts. Does that make sense?

"Following your homing instincts" sounds like a v.good idea Rosey honey! Glad you enjoy the service etc How are you feeling / doing healthwise?

This baby kicks SO HARD - ouch!

DD1 is out with G'pa at toddler group, which she LOVES and DD2 resting - Hurrah! Felt sooooo sick when I woke up this morning! Was really truly awful - feeling better now; but it's knocked me for six a bit - Sickness has been very weird with this PG. Perhaps it is a boy!!!!!?

Hectic day today - bit of R&R (and washing up from breakfast ) this morning, hoping DD2 has a decent sleep. Then giving the girls lunch and walking down to the hospital for my Antenatal appointment - it's an HOUR'S walk (!!) and it is raining atm, so not looking forward to that. DH meeting me at the hospital so he can keep an eye on the girls while I have appointment, then off to friends house near the hospital for the rest of the afternoon. Fortuntately, DH will pick me up after work so I don't have to walk the hour home again!!

Gosh!

Just been texted by my friend who says there's no heating or hot water at DD1's Pre-School today - REALLY hoping it gets fixed by tomorrow!! Eeeeeek!! Please pray .....

How is everyone else doing? off to trawl recent messages for any signs of Podmog - Hoping you've had your beautiful little one honey!!

Shona - really glad to hear about Lewis, will keep praying.

Rosey - glad church was good yesterday, praying that you settle there quickly if that is right for you. How are you feeling today?

CD - gald you have a little time to yourself this morning. parying that the ante-natal appt is helpful this afternoon, and thaht you get some more definite help. Also praying for practicalities re nursery! Eek indeed!

Podmog - how are you? No not asking THE question!!

Grrrr - looking for documents for CRB check, only to discover that my marriage certn and birthcert have disppeared. Have other documentation that will do for CRB, but disappearance of above (and DH is very organised with our paperwork, and is in charge of filing) is annoying. Wodering whether I ever got them back from the last CRB I had done (and that was for the nursery that closed down at christmas) On the trail but not hopeful. Bloomin annoying!

Hey Panda! I hope it is a helpful appoitnemt today too - esp the lengths I am bloomin' going to to get there!! Grrr!

Hope you find the important documents you're looking for, for the CRB - Always the way, how frustrating!! [hugs]

Hi

just to let you know (there's a thread in SN with mroe detail) that your prayers worked, harry was today diagnosed with autism and severe language impairment. No delay at all in getting a diagnosis, hopefully we can help him now.

God bless.

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Don't worry too much podmog, DS2's labour was like that and ojnce it got off the ground, it was an incredibly relaxed and actually enjoyable experience- pain relief by way of aromatherapy.

Great news re Harry Peachy - thanks for letting us know.

Podmog - thinking of you! Praying that things do kick off again soon! Hugs flower.

Popping in quickly as I'm off to bed in a mo ...... sooo tired.

Peachy - Soooo glad that Harry got such a fast diagnosis - Praying for you all as you embark on strategies for embracing his problems etc. Thank you for keeping us up-to-date.

Awwww, Podmog, you must have been gutted - Praying it is the beginning of the end, iykwim, though - Looking forward to your Birth Announcement!!

Hope everyone else is ok.

Hi everyone, haven't had time to read everybody's but I'll read through propoerly later.

Have the week from hell coming up and today's been pants already.

Went to center parcs last week and ds had a sick bug most of the time which put a dampener on what could have been a relaxing holiday. He's still very unwell/feverish/not eating so GPs tomorrow.

On the way home from holiday my mum phoned to say my gran had just died. Really gutted as I hadn't been to see her since before Christmas. Funeral will be sometime this week but it'll be 2 hours drive, need to sort out childcare and having ds unwell won't help.

Ds is also meant to be seeing an educational psychologist at nursery on Thursday (2nd assessment). There are big concerns about his disruptive behaviour. I'm not daft. I can see the teachers are pushing for a diagnosis of ADD/ADHD/AS etc. He's definitely needing extra help, but this sounds so scary. He's incredibly bright (possibly gifted whatever that means), but not meeting nursery's expectations.

And at some point in between I need to get dd's next lot of immunisations and get ds' signed up at his primary school.

I'm fed up and want to have the holiday I never got.

Rant over. Need wine.

And I've not replied to CD's email yet . SORRY!!!!!!

Don't worry about that honey - [[hugs]] You sound like you have got A LOT on your plate right now. So sorry to hear about your gran - was it expected? I am sorry the holiday was difficult with DS being poorly - hope you had some good times together as a family though. Praying for your DS with the behavioural / disruptive issues - praying it can be dealt with and resolved in a quick and helpful manner! [[hugs]] to you honey - Praying that you'll be able to find childcare etc easily and everything will go smoothly with as little stress as possible.

Sorry if that was a little rambly and long - just tired .... Really should go to bed now .....

Popping in to say hello. Prayers for you all - specially Pudmog tonight - wonder if we all stopped praying around lunchtime today?!

Praying for a fruitful labour for you Hon, and for a birth announcement soon.

Need your prayers. Dh and I have decided that it will be best if he leaves for the time being, until we can try and work it out through relate. If he doesn't leave we are going to end up hating each other.

So now we have to tell the girls. Not a clue how or when to tell them. Not a clue whether this is what is best for them or whether we should stick it out, but its so hard for them having a Dad who explodes at them all the time.

Can't carry on like this but its heart breaking all the same. Haven't stopped crying for the last hour and have to go to work this morning.

so, so hard.

LWTG - I think that's best for the time being. I hope and pray that it all happens for the best. In the meantime, we are here for you and will support you as best you can. My heart aches for you... I wouldn't tell the girls too much at the moment, just that daddy needs a break, so that he can be your daddy again, and not so snappy. Something like that.

Bobsmum - sorry to hear you had a rough holiday. We had one like that last year, and its not fun. Hoping and praying your DS is better soon and that the assessment goes well. on your gran dying, hugs to you all.

Peachy - so glad the diagnosis came through so quickly. Keep us informed how it all goes - need to have a look on SN, I know...

Podmog - hope all is well with you

Shona - keep us updated on Lewis, won't you?

CD - how are you? You know where I am if you need me! How did the antenatal go? How's the numbness?

RL - sounds like going to that church was a bit of a release for you! at you telling the vicar everything! A woman vicar should be good for you, she'll know at first hand about exploring vocation as a woman!

I have a meeting this pm with the course director and M., to discuss my role in the parishes, and what I should be doing re: training. Please pray that it all goes well. Our diocese seems a bit lackadaisical about what trainees should be doing - it seems to be as little/much as they/their incumbent want! I don't want to come out feeling it was a waste of time!

Secondly I need to kickstart the Emmaus study group, so please nag me about this!

Thirdly my next tutorial is on Thursday, I need to prepare for that. Always a difficult passage for me - Abraham and the impending sacrifice of Isaac. (Sorry Lord, I CAN'T kill my children!).

Good morning everyone!

Bobsmum what a horrid time for you! Did your dh pour you a nice glass of wine? I do hope the funeral goes well and gives you comfort. I know what you mean about feeling cheated out of a holiday...how is ds now?

Podmog I am thinking of you! Praying that the Lord will be right by your side all through the birth! (How exciting!!!)

LWTG [[hugs]]]. What a hard decision to have made. I agree with what Mary suggested - your dds don't need to know too much at this stage, I think the important thing is to give them lots of cuddles and reassure them as much as they need it.

HOw are you CD? I'm going to try t opost a link to a good nutrition website later - my previous attempts have failed tho so please bear with me if I don't manage it!

Peachy it's good that Harry has a diagnosis now.

Panda hello! Have you got your CRB stuff sorted yet? I'm glad it's not just me who loses stuff!

Mary I hope your meeting goes well this pm, and that the course director is able to give you just the right level of stuff to do - enough to stretch and challenge you without stretching you too far! You're right about us (dh and I) babbling on to the vicar on Sunday - it was a release! The church has fellowship groups and dh has started talking about us joining one - that would be soooo nice!

WEll I am still off work - signed off this week and next - dd is at school, ds is at pre-school and I'm in an empty house! (Very unusual) I'm thinking about doing something creative today - I used to do a lot of cardmaking but I just hven't had time lately so what a nice way to recuperate!

God bless!

Good morning all.

Pudmog, special prayers for you today Hon and for you too LWTG. So sorry to hear your news, but praying that God can use this break to bring you all healing and comfort.

Mary - I always struggled with God asking Abraham to kill Isaac too, although read a brilliant explanation of it once, in which a Polish Trade Unionist offered to send his son, alone, into mortal danger, in order to save the town which was locked in an apparently insoluble dispute, and the people starving as a result. The opposition to whom he made the offer, asked him how he could do this to his own son, he couldn't love him at all to offer his own son's life. The man replied that he loved his son completely, but had to do this, as it was exactly what God had done for us all . . . .

Seems a bit obvious now, but I'd really never thought of it that way.

One very sad prayer request for a local family please. You may have seen on the news that their 15 year old son slipped into the river Thames in Oxford on Sunday afternoon, whilst on a bike ride with his younger brother, who wasn't able to save him. Prayers please for the whole family - especially his younger brother, and also prayers that his body may be found very very soon.

hello everyone. quick hello from work. you all have been in my prayers esp lwtg. hugs to you. will send you an update on what we are up to soon. xx