Christian prayer thread for spring

[Dutchoma]

BES has no computer at the moment and has sent me a very comprehensive list of prayers partners.
Rather than put this is the middle of an ongoing thread I thought it would be better to start a new thread, so all the names stay at the top.

amberlight - for her work supporting people with autism, and for health and happiness for her and her family.

BlackEyedSusan - for all that she has to juggle as a single mum, for ds who has ASD, dd who might have ASD and dyspraxia (waiting for appointments) and for her mum. Also for the computer to be mended

Bloomed- New year, fresh start

Cocoaleaves - for issues around the safety of her DS.

Colabottles64- struggling with infertility.

DancingUnicorn - new to the thread, most welcome

Dontbesilly - for strength as she grieves the loss of her dad, for her DD's school issues, and for Dont's recovery from a car accident. For DH and his recovery from a heart attack and finding her phone!

drspouse - for happiness and a warm welcome in her new church and for dcs

DutchOma - with gratitude for all she does to support people on this thread and elsewhere.

EddSimcox - for her dd, for her relationship with DP and her parents and her growing faith.

FaithLoveandHope - for her anxiety and depression to lift and for her to be able to avoid falling into despair and self-harm, and for her relationship with her DSD.

girlandboy- family and faith

Lissette-anxiety and thanks for lots of prayers for others on this thread.

MadHairDay - for her health, and those pesky lungs. For her friend.

Musicposy- CT scans, diagnosis and treatment, giving thanks that some progress with diagnosis has been made

Nickel- for church and her disability, and a friend moving on from DV

NoRoomForALittleOne - Giving thanks that he operation was successful. For freedom from pain and recovery.

Orchidflower1- for help with her anxiety and the relationship with her husband

PositiveAttitude - for her whole family, but especially her DD1 who has been depressed, her dgs who was born early and poorly, her mum and dad, her DH and his work. Above all, we pray for PA herself, who is always there for others when they need her, for her studies, and for a potential house-move.

QoF - for her relationship with her DH.

sadandanxious- for help with anxiety

StillSmallVoice MIL has an invasive malignant melanoma for dd and historical abuse investigation.

Tunnocks - after the loss of her husband
Trazzletoes- for her young DS, Joe, who is having treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital- bereavement, losing her DH

TUO - who has had to withdraw from the thread for a while through business in real life.

Zombie clan- remembering Candy and MummyLin

And also thinking of friends who haven't visited for a while, or who pop in only occasionally, including: abbsismyhero, ALittleFaith, Anjelica27, Aphie, applesandpears33, Badders123 Bluetinkerbell, clementineorange, CoolCarrie, DancingUnicorn, FlappysMammyAndPopeInExile guinessgirl (how is your friend?)HardyLeodicean itshappenedagain, Kaykat, JugglingFromHereToThere, ktef, LarrytheCucumber legohurtswhenyoustandonit,LifeOfBriony,LittleBootsTheBabe, Mary, originalmavis, ozymandiusking Pandora97, pklme SESthebrave shortscotty,SingaSong12 SparkyStars Sugarpiehoneyeye The Woollyback'sWife Weegiemum, ZippidiSoozi and others.

And, as always, prayers for anyone I've forgotten (with apologies), for all who lurk but don't post, and for newbies who may not have posted yet.

It's difficult Lissette when there is nothing you can do except pray. Because although we 'know' with our heads that prayer is powerful and God is mighty, we would quite like to see some result from our efforts, at least that is how I feel.
I am at Scargill House this week in a course dealing with bereavement issues. There are eight of us and each of the stories is quite harrowing.
So I would value your prayers for us and the three facilitators.
As I am typing I look out on a huge tree in blossom, not sure what it is, but it is very beautiful.

Praying for you Dutchoma and those with you this week. May you all find strength together and through prayer. I'm guessing that tree is outside your bedroom window. What a lovely sight to wake up to. And nature provides a death-rebirth cycle - when winter comes, can spring be far behind?

Prayers for you Dutchoma, for those there with you and the facilitators. I find great comfort in the natural world because for a long time I did not see colour, and when I started to see it again, it was like coming awake. Down the road from me there is a deep red rhododendron which is just lovely. The tree is like God's tapestry for you to wake up to; at least that is what I think. Ever changing.

Prayers for your former colleague Lissette

I am glad things are working out for you DrsSpouse with the new Church.

Prayers for all

Keeping everyone in prayers, as ever.

Hello all. I've lurked a few times but not posted recently, sorry to see so many of you are going through such difficult times. Praying for all in need.

First some good news - DD's friend J, who was in a coma a year ago, had a sudden improvement and was moved from a specialist hospital to one near his home. He has been allowed out of hospital and home for weekends, and is walking and talking, although with some difficulty. Thank you to all who prayed for him. He still has some way to go, but this is fantastic news.

As for me, things are reaching crisis point for DH and me. We are not happy - we seem to have times when we do better and times when we hardly connect at all. I don't know how to deal with this and what to do., and what the future will be for us.

DS has some problems at uni which I won't go into as all these details together would be outing; it's so difficult but something he has to work through.

Lovely to hear from you, Briony.

Brilliant news about dd's friend, but sad to hear that your marriage is still somewhat in the doldrums.
And it is always hard to stand back when your children are in difficult circumstances and you have to stand back while they work things out for themselves.

Hello

Prayers Girlandboy. What a shock for everyone. Hoping he is doing well and that the doctors have a really good treatment plan in place. It brought a tear to my eye when you said that you won't hear his voice sounding the same. Really felt for you in the coop carparks too. I know how upsetting cancer is having gone through it with my dad recently and then with dh having a heart attack in his 40's I can totally emphasise with how you are feeling, my prayers for you and your dh and family.

Praying for you mad I am so sorry that you lost friends recently. What a shock for you. Really hoping that your recent breathing issues are getting better and stay that way.

Prayers for your friend too Lissette. Poor thing having everything happen at once seems so hard I hope things improve for her.

Oma prayers for your bereavement group. I can only imagine how difficult it is there listening to the bereavement stories and I hope that this course can bring some help and understanding to everyone there and some strength to cope.

Praying for everyone else who is unwell too and for other difficulties that you are struggling with. Please excuse me if I haven't named everyone as my memory is rubbish now but I read and pray as I go along, I don't miss anyone out.

I was a tad hopeful that I might be able to drive after 6 months and so was my gp. However it's not looking good now as it's been pointed out that it's usually a year after the brain injury and as long as I don't have any seizures in that time then I can apply. It's so frustrating as every day I am a passenger I am hypervigilant watching other drivers and watch motorists doing crazy stuff. I keep on repeating 'look at that/him/her what on earth is going on and to think I can't drive yet they can' I am driving dh up the wall. The longer I can't drive for the more forensic I become inspecting other people driving and I am becoming a right pain saying 'did you see that' etc.

Thinking of everyone

I am off to cook tea

Good to hear from you Dont, but sad to hear you are still so anxious and worried about the driving. I hope the issue gets resolved and you can get back to some kind of what is normal for you.

How are things with you and your husband girlandboy?

I am now home from my week in Scargill, it was too short really, we all felt the same. But we all felt very blessed by the time we spent together.
It is such a lovely place and for anyone who has never been there is an introductory discount of 20%. Just google them.
On the way back I spent an hour with TUO who was very busy in real life and although she misses us all finds that Mumsnet and Facebook just take up too much time she should be spending on other things. She is very well and sends greetings to all.
We talked about the get-together in Birmingham and she may just be able to come which would be lovely. Has anybody else (apart from MHD and Niminy got any plans? 17th June in the Central Museum in Birmingham (UK)?

Oma really lovely to hear that you enjoyed your week away in Scargill. It's not possible for me to get to Birmingham on the 17th June as I can't get there. It would mean either someone driving me or going on the train etc as it's a quite far from where we are and I am not sure yet what we are doing as it's father's day that weekend too as well as a family birthday on 20th.

Please can I ask you if you can spare a prayer for the situation with my solicitors. I am finding it quite difficult and I hope that it's not going to be like this the whole way through.

Looking forward to the weekend although they do go too quickly.

Lissette I forgot to mention that I loved the lucky shell you magiced up. Unfortunately I don't seem able to magic up any with my phone but I did manage to find a lucky 🍀. Go me 😉 ☺ 😁

Forgot to mention Oma that I am pleased you got to spend time with Tuo. I do miss her posts but I totally understand that things take up time and it's not always possible to do everything and trying to is not good either. I struggle to get on here and can totally understand. She is a busy lady with work and a family and yet she was always so kind to me and her posts so comforting. I still think of her and hold her in my prayers and will continue to do so, it was lovely to read her post at easter. Really glad that you got to meet up with her.

Glad you had a good week Oma. And so pleased you met up with tuo. Will be brilliant if she can come to the meet up :)

Praying for you, dont and Briony

Supposed to be at a meet up this weekend for my online disease group but can't go ironically due to my disease! Not just me, 2 others have had to pull out, it always happens as it's the nature of it. I'm a bit grumpy and sad as I was so looking forward to it.

Prayers for all here. Bes, how are you?

Briony i remember your posts about J and I am pleased he has improved. I will continue to pray for his recovery. I am sorry for your marital issues, I will pray for a resolution

dont good to hear from you; I think all your anxieties are normal and you have already dealt with so much. I will pray that the situation is resolved the best it can be. Remember there is more than one lawyer in the world and they don't always give the best advice because they cannot predict what a court would say. Get a second opinion if you need to. That will be daunting as you find getting out and about difficult but it may help your peace of mind longer term.

Glad all went well at Scargill Oma and that you were able to meet with Tuo. It was her suggestion a few threads back that lurkers post if they wanted prayers which brought be on to the board. I am very grateful for all the support and prayers I have received here. Thus I extend the same invitation to lurkers - please come on and ask for prayers if you wish. Otherwise i generally pray for all those in need ofGod's love and guidance, as that is what I needed.

I am still praying for guidance as to how much more to put in relevant papers whilst I still can; whilst thanking God for providing the space to think about my own perspective and to recover my own well being.

MHD cross post. Grumpy and sad sounds a reasonable response, I am sorry you will miss the meet up.

Prayers all around

My youngest DS is really not well. He's been sick on and off for a few days but today he is worse, just vomiting so much :(

MyfatheristheKing i am adding prayers for your DS, that he may recover from this sickness

It's horrible, isn't it MyFatheristhe King when little ones are ill, especially with vomitting. Don't hesitate to seek help for him if he doesn't pick up soon. And of course I will pray for you as well.

I am a total idiot in that I have picked the day for the get together in Birmingham on the same day that we have the concert of our 'new' choir, 17th June. It will be in Finedon and we will practise all afternoon, so I will not be available on that day.
Can we still go to the 24th? Or have people made plans?

I am sorry, but that's Omas for you. Senior moments and all that. The concert had not really got onto my agenda.

Praying for your Ds, myfather. It's horrible when they are so ill.

Cocoa I second what you say about lurkers. You're all most welcome. We're here to support you.

Continued prayers for dont and Briony, and for you too, cocoa

Oh Oma I'm afraid I'm busy on the 24th :( are there any other dates people could do at all? No worries as I'm always double booking!

Another morning missing church. That's 4 weeks now...

Thanks guys, DS2 is better better, DS1 got ill as well but they are both on the mend today so just having a lazy day and then back to school and nursery for them tomorrow. Some friends of mine are leaving for a mission trip today, excited for them :)

Thank you for your prayers for my DS, for J and for me. I hope for some progress with all our problems. I am also praying for DD who has a lot on her plate (but generally positive stuff).

DH and I have had a very up and down couple of days. DH is not a good communicator and does not deal well with differences in opinion. So I tend to skirt around things. We tried to talk but it's one step forward, two back. Sigh.

Prayers for you all, for our health, both physical and mental, and for relationships.

Hi, just want to say I am praying as I read. ❤️

Hello all, sorry for the long silence, I have been reading and praying through to catch up.

My close friend N lost her baby yesterday at 26.5 weeks. It was her absolute last chance after over 10 years of IVF and other treatment and she was in hospital, and the baby was just viable, so it is the cruellest thing imaginable. I don't know what to say to her, and I am angry with God that she has been given such a lot of trauma and grief to deal with. I don't know how she's going to survive this one. She suffered another great loss (a very close friend, famously murdered) just last year; it is all truly awful. Please pray for her, and for her partner.

Nothing you can say EDD, nothing but hugs and just be there.
Good to see you with us Unicorn. Praying for you Briony that you will be able to be on an even keel in your marriage. It's such hard work when you get the feeling that you are the only one trying.

I never have senior moments where I forget... apart from this one where I have forgotten all previous senior moments including trying to put the kettle in the fridge

edd praying for your friend and her baby. How very unfair and tragic. It is very hard for all concerned.

My unemployed friend is doing well. Many thanks for your prayers.