Christian Prayer Thread Jan 07 - Blessed are the MNers!

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

Just another update to let you know that God is continuing to answer the prayers for furniture and goods for the house- a friend at church has a 2 seater sofa which is surplus to their requirements (currently kept in their oldest DS's bedroom - he's 19 and it's not quite to his taste LOL) which I can have when I move, and she's also got a chest of drawers and a bedside cabinet type chest of drawers which I'm welcome too!

Still trying to organise transport for the fridgefreezer - found out tonight that you shouldn't transport them on their side - so need to pray that a friend, whose dad has said I can use his van the weekend I move into my house, is available this weekend to pick it up.

ok we have been kids were fine if not a bit hypo and wouldn't go to bed so when we came home ds was asleep on setee with dd1 and dd3 watching telly. So lifted ds into bed, put dd3 into bed after stripping it as she had taken nappy off and wet it (little madam)

Anyway we have done the intitial assesment and now have to wait 6 weeks or so for another appointment.

There's a lot i could say but may move it over to bible bashers are us

LWTG - will look out for it on there {hug}. God bless and take care of you.

Hello! Was v.tired after my busy day yesterday and was consequently v.grumpsome with poor DH when he got home from work - He is so lovely and patient. He took the DD's upstairs after tea and bathed them and put them in PJ's etc while I cleared up the complete bombsite that had been made of our house during the day - It was super lovely to have so many LO's come round to play, but I was so knackered afterwards!! Went to the cinema last night to see The Holiday, which was a nice relaxing thing to do after a pretty full-on day!

LOL @ Nanou1 and the "Lady Garden" - Bless you honey - forgot you might not know what we were referring to!! @ fannieannie saying PUBIC HAIR on this deeply non - offensive thread - You should be ashamed of yourself, young lady - ten mins in the naughty corner for you!!

Thank you for your post Toady - It was great to "see" you here and thank you for your thanks - It is an absolutely pleasure to be able to pray for you and your family at this terrible time - Do keep us updated and I hope and pray that Jo leaves you soon. You all need Peace and Closure. [[hugs]]

FA - Sooo good that furniture etc is coming in - God is providing - wonderful stuff!! Continuing to pray for you and your boys and your DH honey. xxxx

How was your Relate appointment last night lwtg?? Glad the DC's were ok enough. [[hugs]] Continuing to pray for you. xxxx

Praying that this bloomin' cold would shift Rosey honey - Not nice at all - I guess your immune system is pretty run-down with the Crohn's and finds it hard to fight infection. Poor thing. Praying your health would improve dramatically asap. xxxx

Podmog - It is quite possible to have a Homebirth while Strep B pos. I was also told I wouldn't be allowed one, but I spoke to a lovely independant MW and she told me that I am fine to have one - as long as everything else is ok healthwise and I manage to get to 37 weeks this time round (DD2 was born at 35 + 4) I am paying to have a HVS at about 36/37 weeks to determine my Step B standing at that time and if it is pos then your GP can pescribe IV anti-biotics to have during labour at home (MW can administer cannular and drip etc) So there you go!! How are you doing sweetie? Not long to go!!

Best go - DD's needing attention .......

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Flying through on my way to work to say Good morning to all.

Prayers and hugs from me.

God bless

Well rather major update for you all........the seperation is on hold. It means I'm going to lose £195 arrangement fee - but DH has, rather reluctantly, and partly as a result of his tenants puling out, agreed to go to relate. We've agree that I'll stay here at least until we've been and use relate to help us both decide what we want to happen with our relationship. If after we've been we decide that we are going to seperate then we'll take our time over it so that I can save properly and he can arrange things properly - so I may well still be here when the baby arrives, and if we decide to make a go of it again then I'll be here for the foreseeable future.

I'm off to bed for a few hours now - and will be going to toddler group this afternoon, but when I get back I'll be on the phone to relate to try and get an appointment sorted.

Hey FA that is great news!

God moves in mysterious ways...

Praise the Lord Fannyannie

WONDERFUL news FA Although you must be feeling pretty confused and uncertain right now!!!!? Praying that this will lead to reconciliation! Thank you for letting us know - hope you get some good rest now ....

Praying that you go into spontaneous labour today Podmog honey - can't wait to hear about your wee bubba. Wonder how weirdbird's getting on - I wanna see more piccies of her LO!!

Cuold you please pray for a couple of things for me!!? Firstly that I can come to some sort of negoitation with my MW about Antenatal appointments, finding juggling two toddlers, no car, hospital being an hours walk away, Pre-School, nursery, big bump, job etc etc a bit much atm. Haven't actually met my community MW yet!!! 26 weeks today!! Also, keep praying for DH and I - things are not great between us and it needs sorting.

Wow FA - praying that God's will is done through RElate etc.

CD - will pray for you re prscticalities of MW appts, and with DH..No wonder your relationship is a bit strained right now, with just having moved, getting used to being a family in your own house, 2 under 3 and another on the way...Hugs honey.

Podmog - how you doing flower. Praying that this baby would come very soon!

TR - how are you feeling today?

NQSTM - good to see you!

Love to everyone else!

Hello everyone!

I am [amazed, delighted emoticon] a bit better today! I'm at home today (I only work 3 days) with ds and I feel like a real lazy slattern as there are toys all over the floor and here I am on MN! I really feel that I need to take it easy tho as my body needs rest. (Is that convincing enough?!? )

Please pray that I do recover quickly from this horrible ill-all-the-time phase. I'm on the special drinks for crohns patients - so I'm only able to eat one meal a day atm (lunch - I'm having an egg sandwich!) but I don't mind at all because all I want is to feel better. Ds is such an easy child to look after; he gets absorbed in make-believe play and is so good-natured....

CD I hope you have a good day - sounds like lots of juggling. I am praying for you and your dh, that you can have some special times together.

And Panda! For your baby! How exciting! I am I do pray that the delivery goes so well and that you know the peace and the presence of God with you every step of the way. I like your ash cross thing btw - quite a statement.

RL - it is Podmog having a baby not me!!! I was praying that hers will come quickly

Glad to hear you are feeling a bit better today!

I was wondering if there was something you were not telling us, Panda!!

Thank you for your kinds words everyone - Think I have managed to make an Antenatal appointment now, just the childcare to arrange - Grrrr!

DH should be back home for lunch soon. He's been at his 1st round of tests for this potiential job this morning, hope they have gone ok. Brave little man that he is!!

Hoping the special diet / drinks do help Rosey - your DS sounds lovely - wish my two could entertain themselves!!

aaagggh sorry Panda! (and Podmog).

My ds is a gorgeous wee thing but I do have to be careful because he gets freaked out / scared by things v. easily (I think he's got a very vivid imagination. After the christingle service I asked him what he thought and he said "It was scary; there were monsters"). We were just watching Something Special and I looked over at ds and his face was crumpling - Mr Tumble was dressed as a baby who wouldn't stop crying - it really upset ds and he howled!

Ds is a lot like me - I was a quiet child who got really scared by things and had a powerful imagination.

hi guys, can i ask for your prayers pls as i am struggling - big times - with writing the pcc meeting and vicar annoying me... . many many thanks x

Praying nanou1. xx

Bless your DS Rosey - how old is he?

Have a friend coming over with her little baby soon. He was born on Nov 30th and I haven't met him yet - really looking forward to seeing him. I love scrumply newborns!!

Yes I'm still feeling a little uncertain about what the future holds. But, as I've said on here and in RL to friends, if he decided to give Relate a go then I would stay and see if we could work it out. Obviously we may go and decide that there's nothing to 'save' - in which case seperation will still happen, but at least then we'll be able to (hopefully) make it a more gradual transistion than this was going to be - and we'll both be able to tell the DC when they're older that "we tried everything" and actually mean it.

Hi everyone

just a quickie before my counselling and then straight off to hockey. Still at work!

Dsis had her appt and they are going to put her in a support group and have given her a programme to reduce her drinking.
Mum spoke to dsis ex-p about helping out more with their dd and keeping her safe. He promply went and told my dsis.

Dsis phoned mum last night ranting about how we all think she is a failure and that we think she can't look after her dd so we may as well just take her away . Dsis told mum that I wasn't to ring her because if I distrusted her she didn't want to talk to me.

I sent her a text telling her how much I love her and care for her and want to support her. Then I prayed hard for inspiration and guidance on how to approach my dsis, to best help her.

What do you know? A couple of hours later my dad rings up (10.30 last night) (which is odd in itself!) - he was lying on his bedroom floor having dislocated his hip. Mum works nights in the hospital and the front door is locked so noone to let the paramedics in. Phoned mum at work who hared home to open the door, but dad asked me to ring dsis.

Phoned her and she was fine! I told her how much she had scared me last week, but that I loved her and want to help and support her. She said she was so ashamed for having been in that state whilst looking after her dd and my ds.

Phew. The Lord does work in the most mysterious ways!!!

Dad is fine btw. hip back in place, hoping to be home tomorrow.

thanks for reading!!

Well I've had a renewal of strength in me now I've had time for it to sink in that DH is at least agreed to go to relate. Obviously it may still come to seperation in the future - but I really do feel that this is a major step forward. The fact that he also said (before agreeing, reluctantly, to go to Relate) that I could/should not sure which really stay at least until the baby is born gives me hope too.

He said this morning that he'd never said that he didn't still love me - which is true he didn't, but I'd taken his "we've been 'friends' for 4-5yrs" and him being "resigned" to that fact as meaning that he didn't. Obviously he hasn't said that he does love me and he's said that we can't just 'undo' the events of the last few years which have led us to this point. But if we can at least start to scratch at the surface of the problems and try to start dealing with them with the help of a counsellor I feel it's a start.

I'm about to go and cook dinner, then have a blitz on the ironing and a bit of housework (something which we've argued over in the past) - I've only felt like doing the bare essentials for the last 2 weeks, and I think if I can at least show some willing and commitment on the 'domestic' front he may start to realise I'm serious about wanting to make things work.

I'm prepared (I think) for the fact that a lot of the changes are probably going to have to come from me - but that's something I'm more than willingly to sacrifice if we can somehow renew our relationship. We've got a very long way to go, and only time will tell if it's something that we both want to happen but I can see a tiny glimmer of hope in the distance.

{hugs}

Haven't got long on here, but it seems the Lord is working in us

Will continue with my prayers for you all. Take care and God bless

Well FA that's still a better prospect than it was a day ago. Just keep bringing it to the Lord in prayer and His perfect will, so often beyond our understanding, will be done.

CCM - good to hear things are moving forward with your sis. It will probably take a long time for the ealing process; lots of patience required!

CD my ds is about the same age as your dd - 3 at the end of Feb. He's just done Day 2 of successful potty-training! Clever boy.

Anyway - please pray for me! Health again, same old same old. I've really gone downhill as the day's gone on, and I phoned the doc a while ago who has arranged an appt for me first thing tomorrow am. She said that having had pneumonia I am susceptible to catching it again and the symptoms I have could be pneumonia again...Please pray that this is not pneumonia! And for a really rapid intervention by God to heal me. Dh is working late again tonight [grr] and I know he's fed up with me being ill all the time as well...

Wow FA that's fantastic news. God is sooo good, and clearly honouring your intentions to honour Him. I know that you still have a long way to go, but I'm all smiley for you.

Ditto for your sister CCM.

Hugs CD and RL - will pray for your happiness and health tonight.

LWTG - are you still there, Hon. Praying for you.

Oh and Hi to PandaG. Thanks for noticing me flying by. I'm not around much at the moment, but trying to pop in when I can.

God bless all

Hi everyone - not posted for a while, but have read and prayed. I guess I'm worried about missing anyone out!

No particular huge prayer requests from me, except a trivial one to pray for DD (5 months) who has to have a day without me on Wed 17th as I've got to go to London for an A level exam board meeting - she's BF and has one meal of baby rice at lunchtime...she has taken formula but under protest. She'll survive the day but I'm not sure if my parents will!

No news on our minister - will keep you posted!

Was starting to get confused about Panda's baby news!!

i'm still here, not had a good day. Just feel my fight has got up and gone. Part of me is resigning myself to the fact that it is over. dh is blowing hot and cold. Before I went out this eve he was moaning in agony iwth his shoulders, couldn't do anything so had to put dc in the pj's at 5.30 so he could cope with them.

Came home at 9.30 and he a completly different person. That worries me coz I think what has he taken to change the way he is in such a relativly short time. Confused, lonely, scared.