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.

dont please be gentle on yourself. You do not need a kick up the bum. You are doing fantastic job in difficult circumstances and it is natural to have the concerns you do. Try not to make life harder by wishing your emotions away. Prayers for things to go as well as they can for you and your family. Thank you for sharing how the anniversary of your father's passing went.

dancingunicorn prayers for physical and emotional healing for you.

bes i hope the power is fixed soon. Prayers for things to work.

Orchid prayers for calm in your house. How are you doing?

Otherwise, I am praying for what is needed and giving thanks for what we have.

power is working ok. just it was bizarre yesterday with two short power-cuts in quick succession.

Please can you pray for a dear friend of mine, who is suffering a chronic skin condition? At the moment, it is being managed but he still has considerable discomfort and the doctors have not yet found the cause. I am praying for physical comfort and a diagnosis or treatment which works. He is also having tests for another issue; both could be stress-related but it could be more sinister. I am praying that he regains his health. He has a lot of stress, so I am also praying that lessens.

Prayers for your friend cocoa. I hope things start to get better.

it would seem that we have a virus. it keeps turning the antivirus protection off. and it is making the antivirus software play up and not scan properly.

unfortunately that means I have to put up with IT support coming round. apparently it will need booting from a cd and antivirus running from that as it is possible that the virus is in the boot system/section (smile and nod) if the boot systen malfunctions than the computer is fucked as nothing else will work. it is working at present though. just notbuying anything on the internet at present. just in case.

Bes that sounds like a sensible plan to avoid buying online. I hope you have nothing urgent you need. I will be praying that the IT support visit goes smoothly and the problem can be easily fixed.

I am going back to work today, and slept very badly. I pray I am able to keep my emotions in check when it's needed.

Thank you dancing
It seems quite soon to go back. I pray that you are okay .

(it support is ex)

Oh. In that case bes I hope it goes as smoothly as possible. Will be thinking of you!

Prayers for your friend cocoa. I hope that this can be sorted out for him quickly.

Dancing I want to wish you a good first day back at work. I hope that it's a not too difficult for you and with the poor night sleep you had. Prayers.

Oh Bes I hope that you get your computer sorted out. You did me laugh the way you wrote it and who your very own I.T. Support provider is too. Hoping that he sorts it out. Just continue to smile and nod.

Dh is back at work. As he walked out to the car to drive there he stopped and was doing something to the windscreen and showing us. It turns out that a big, fluffy white feather was sitting on the windscreen in the point of view. I had been really worried about him and working and praying for him to return to work ok. Even my logically minded dh was quite surprised by the white feather.

My mum is home from yet another holiday since my accident. She was told of dh's return to work and shift patterns although there is no need to. We just do it so she doesn't ring up when he is sleeping. However she managed to ring him up and disturbed his sleep before his shift. It's not her fault though.......she didn't think xyz or know of it......erm yes you did.....so do the witnesses present when we told you.......she does this for attention. We know when you are back from yet another holiday.......we told you that that same day is dh's return to work day and his shift is xyz. Apparently we didn't do that and obviously it's not her fault or the consequences she has created!

She just wants to ask quickly how is everyone and wants to hear that we are all very well indeed and she has nothing to worry about and she then says oh good my mind is at rest now.

Only I am recovering without the neck brace on, a soft collar for very occasional use and due to the head injury and stomach ulcers, I can only take paracetamol which is about the same as chocolate buttons really. Dh is still weak and trying to get back to strength slowly and dd was in hospital last week. School had to call an ambulance for her. She's been unwell twice and she needed checking out. I can't tell my mum as she will make it all about how worried this makes her and she will seek to inform her cronies of our situation, who never acknowledge this to us and apparently she only informs them as they support her and care about us......erm ok......not

I ended up putting the phone down on her. Not slamming it down, I just listened to get the gist, reminded her that her call timing clashed with dh sleep and reminded her we knew of her return date. I listened to her explanation of tripe, blame and how it makes her the poor victim and said mum what exactly do you want? I then said that she wasn't to phone here as she is not helping us and doesn't want to help ever and therefore we have to help make things easier for ourselves, hence the no phone calls. She hasn't rang back or emailed me as she normally does. Funny how she chose to ring rather than email announcing her return. I haven't spoken to her since a few days before her holiday so why the sudden urgency? She is so diva and attention seeking.

I am at another hospital appointment today and it's about a 3.5 hour round trip. The inlaws are kindly taking me due to dh work. They have been really good. I think that they are aware of my mums behaviour, aware of our situation and know that dad would have stepped straight in had he been here.

Hoping everyone is having a good and peaceful school holiday if it's started yet. I hope that you all are ok and I am thinking of you all.

pah, she's a right one isn't she. ignore as much as possible.

dont I hope your hospital appointment went as well as it could, and the same for your DH's return to work. I think you did well to ask your mum not to call, if she cannot be helpful. Prayers for you and your family

bes more prayers for things to work

Prayers all around

How is your friend cocoa

Prayers for all your family dont
Prayers and calm for all.

And how, dear Orchid, are you?

Prayers for you, dont.

Just a quick pop in. GCSE stress taking over here :(

Since only MHD expressed an preference for the 17th June for a meet-up I think we should go with that and I'm putting it on here now before Easter, since after Easter I have nearly a month of feet hardly touching the ground.
So Saturday 17th June in Central Museum Birmingham (UK). There is no need to let anybody know you are coming, I will try and be there at opening time at 10, and hope to see as many as possible.

That will be lovely, oma

Prayers for sleep here

I slept about six hours, but still relentlessly churning. I am trying to relax my body and think this too is life. The other party have responded, and the response needs to be picked apart line by line. It erases my truth. I am advised this gets me to where I want to be, so that I can put the issues on the table for the court to look at.

I am not writing more in case it is being read by the other side.

I made the mistake of calling my parents last night, only to be reminded they are not there for me. dont and lissette and all those without that support, prayers for you, there is commonality so we are not alone.

I thank God for the support I have received from those who do not have to care, but do. I thank God for opening my eyes to be able to see. I pray to be able to hold on. In fact, I pray for more, to become the kind of person who fights tirelessly for what they believe to be true. And when I am done, to help others too. I pray to have life beyond this, and I thank God for what I have learned, and continue to learn, from this. Amen.

Cocoa hope you managed to get some sleep. How are you feeling today? Also how is your friend doing?

Mhd. We too are experiencing the stress of exams here. It's not much fun and no matter how much you try to reassure them, it's of no use the moment they return to the books and to the study. It's just so stressful and I do feel for them with the pressure they feel.

We had a mass vet visit rather than what I usually do when I was driving and just took one at a time. It was better than I expected but still a bit of a chore as the whole family were involved in either catching and putting them in baskets and/or sitting with them on the journey. Normally I used to just do it all easily and after dropping the dc at school nip to the vet straight after. Now I need a driver, and as it's easier to do it all together to save dh the excessive driving and he's on shifts it's a faff. I know that lots of people choose or can't drive and it's really a tough one for me. It's all I wanted to do and my dad bought me a little car and with the instructor who dad found me dad had me driving practically every day, even his mum my gran took me out as she was a driver. Any journey/trip in the car was a driving lesson and I am absolutely lost without any licence. I can't even sit with dd in our car as I am not allowed to and with dh shifts she is behind and her instructor has mentioned it ooh at least 47 times and he knows what the situation is. Hence why we are looking for a new instructor with common sense and empathy. Dd was actually quite scared of her recent lesson as the instructor would be annoyed that we hadn't been able to give her x hours of driving lesson experience ourselves in the last week. He even said that if she doesn't pass soon he will put her price of lessons up. The price you pay when you sign up is fixed until you pass. He is eager to get her passed as he could be getting more money with another pupil. She pays for two hours a week as it is and it's not cheap. The not being able to drive is seriously bothering me more than I expected. I think it's worse because I am frightened of moving cars when I am a pedestrian as in the accident and I feel safer and ready to drive again. So walking to the shop for milk etc is a real emotional challenge. I can walk the dogs in the field as there are no cars so at least that is something. Someone said that I remind them of one of the men in dad's army at the introduction of the show looking around all nervously when I cross the road. I think it's Jones lol.

It's a lovely sunny day today and we are hoping to make the most of it. Hoping you all have lovely weekends.

Cocoa i pray for your strength in the knowledge of your truth. God knows your truth absolutely, and your faith and thankfulness in times of difficulty is inspirational. Prayers that you are surrounded by the grace of the Holy Spirit.

Don't I cannot imagine how you must feel not being able to drive, it must be a constant reminder of everything that has happened. I'm so sorry the driving instructor had been so incredibly insensitive. Continued prayers for your healing, and for your family.

I am relieved it is the weekend. I was able to make it to choir practice last night, getting ready for Easter. I am blessed with wonderful friends. I am also very grateful to my work for being understanding with me this week, letting me come home early when things were too much.

Praying for all and particularly thinking of those feeling isolated or alone.

Dont - it sounds like you are having such a tough time. Prayers for God to continue to sustain you through your faith.

Cocoa - prayers for some good quality sleep tonight.

Can I ask for prayers for my wider family. We seem quite happy and normal on the outside but on the inside we're pretty dysfunctional.
So somehow I'm hosting Easter Sunday lunch for my parents and my older brother and SIL. Family get together safe always fraught as my Dad is an alcoholic we have my mum on the one hand trying to count what he's drinking and tell him to stop whilst my brother believes my Dad's problem isn't that bad, enjoys a drink himself and will bring the wine and keep it pouring!
Add to this that my dad is currently having investigations for prostate cancer but my parents haven't told my brother yet! My mum seems that next Sunday would be a good time to share the news, although I have suggested that one of them phones him in the week.
It could all be a bit of a disaster on Easter Sunday

Praying for exam takers and those of us who have challenging families. I've been reading through and saying prayers. For those returning to work after hospital treatment, prayers too.

We head into Easter week soon. I truly hope it is peaceful and uplifting for us all. And that we should be good to ourselves, as Dutchoma so kindly suggested. I'm so sorry I can't make it in June but one day I'll get to meet you all .

hi everyone. I'm just checking in here i hope everyone is doing ok. please pray for me, I'm struggling so much with parenting my daughter. i am not well enough to manage even half a day with her without help, and being a single parent this is just overwhelming at times. today i ran out of strength but she didn't, and i started crying and feel so down. any prayers would be so gratefully received, I'm sorry i haven't been checking in for such a long time

I will pray for you Jan. I don't know if your daughter is a little one or older, but I pray that you will have an easier time of it. Is it possible that you are a little run down too?