Is it June already!!? MN Christian Prayer Request Thread June: WEEK ONE.

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June - Good grief!!? Well I am going to try & do this "a week at a time" now ..... hope I can keep up - I'll definitely try my best!!

Here's the "Round-Up" for May .....

lucy5 - Prayers for SIL & BIL who recently gave birth to a stillborn DD. Prayers for strength as they come to terms with their enormous loss.

Podmog - Continued prayers for difficult church situation and for them as they contemplate community living as a solution to not having enough space in their current accomodation!! Also prayers for friend who has 2 children & is mentally unstable atm.

ThatBeetroot - Prayers for MIL, Pat, who has been diagnoised with cancer.

fannyannine - Praise God!!! - For safe arrival of Takunda Myles!! Prayers for FA & her fmaily as they settle down to life as a fivesome! Prayers for their difficult money situation....

NotQuiteGrownUp - Prayers for her DS's, that they can make some good & lasting friendships. Prayers for them as they try to find their "place" in the village they live in. Praying for NQGU as she visits her parents....

katzg - Continued prayers for her DD as they struggle to treat her DD's skin condition, Cutaneous Mastocytosis.

CaptainCaveman - Prayers for work collegue's mum who has bowel cancer & liver mets. Prayers for DH's complicated job situation. Praise that her DSis is improving....Continued prayers for recovery...

notsofarnow - Prayers for strength as she struggles with life and the abscence of her DH. Prayers as she attends Relate & tries to carry on....

matilda57 - Prayers for her friend Pen whose DH died recently, she has 7 children. Lots of prayers for current family turmoil, esp the mental health of her 19 yr old DD.

RoseyLea - Continued prayers for her Crohns. Prayers for her friend who is married to a Muslim and has recently had a baby - finding his strict views v.tough. Prayers for her as she commences ordination ministry training and for her DH to find a much, much better job asap - praying for the RoseyLea family as they struggle with his current v."family unfriendly" job. Prayers for her dad as she has recently undergone surgery.

kilo - Prayers for her & her fmaily as her DH has recently been made redundant.

Mars - Prayers that the lady she posted about had a terrific delivery!!

Twiga - Prayers for her as she looks forward to the imminent arrival of her new baby! Prayers for her DH as he undergoes job interviews....

DutchOma - Prayers for Baby Matthew who has been extrememly poorly in Great Ormand Street. Praise that Janipher Maseko is not going to be deported - prayers that she would find accomodation asap.

Suzy - Prayers for strength in her faith & for her resolve to find a place for her and her LO's to worship ...... Prayers for her & her DH as they seek to set up their gardening business after her DH was made redundant. Prayers for her computer & printer too!!

mumtogusandalbie - Prayers by the bucketload for her as she struggles with meds & panic attacks. Lord wrap her up in your love. xx

SueBaroo - Prayers as she is struggling with PND.

harrisey - Prayers for her and her DH as they juggle studying & family life. Prayers for her DH as he has counselling.

PandaG - Prayers that she does lots of practice for her new job - Movitation....

Vio - Prayers for her & her family as they comes to terms with the skin condition (EB) their new baby James has.

Snuffy - Prayers for her and her DH as they struggle with a special friendship that has fallen apart.

Nanou1 - Prayers for her and her family as they work out what is happening now that DH has been offered a new job in Switzerland - she and her DD will be joining him in Sept.

Hearts - Prayers as she seeks to learn to trust God and for moving house and all the madness that goes with that!!!

Losty - Prayers for friend (K) who has cancer - esp for her family as they cope with this.

mosschops - Hope the flight went well!! Prayers for her dad who is in hospital and her mum who is coping alone.

MaryBS - Prayers as she struggles with a difficult person at church. Prayers as she studies. Prayers for her DS and Ed Psych etc too.

PrincessPeaHead - Prayers for friend who has just started radiotherapy for cancer.

mufti - Prayers the builders finish soon!!

CaptainDippy - Praise God!! for the safe arrival of Phoebe Elisabeth Joan on April 30th - Prayers for the Dippy Family as they adjust to being a family of five!! Prayers for them all as DH embarks on his new job - praying it won't be as terrible as CD thinks it will be .....Eeeeek! Prayers for Dippy's friend whose marraige is on the rocks, she has three children and is PG. There's probably more, but "Baby Daze" has taken over my entire brain!!!

Now GET PRAYING!! .....

Thank you so much Captain Dippy. What a lot there is to pray about, good job we have a great God, who hears all our prayers before we've even spoken them.
Please keep on praying for Janipher as her situation is in no way secure and it is possible that 'they' (whoever the nameless 'they' are) will try to sneak her onto a plane before any of us know about it. She needs to be given political asylum to stay here indefinitely with her children before we can get into the business of supporting her after the terrible ordeal she has been through. There is a link with lots of info on the breast an bottle feeding thread

once again thankyou Dippy for the great round-up.

Just a quick update, I am still having the panic attacks and generally struggling with life. DS1 5th birthday party tomorrow so added pressure there. GP has now put me onto 5mg of Buspirone 3 times a day alongside the 40mg of Citalopram and the diazapam if needed. Feel like a walking drug machine at the moment but have been able to function a little better since taking the Buspirone (started yesterday).

Please all continue to pray for me, I have been signed off from work for a further month so hopefully in that time I will find some healing and will start to feel a bit calmer and capable.

God Bless you all
xxxx

Definitely praying mtgaa, sweetie - Esp praying you feel able to relax & enjoy your wee boy's Birthday tomrorow. {{{{{hugs}}}}

I exhausted - has been a stressful PM. Aiming to put girlies down early, tidy up & have a wee rest before I am off out to Book Group this evening.....

glad i looked here, had not seen Lucy5 on line, so emailed her, guess that explains why

how awful

I know, lulu, is terribly Could you please let us know if she mails you back?? Just to let us know how she is doing etc .... thank you!

Ooo - just thought I'd better pop on to say we're still here and doing well. Takunda feeding very well - but in 'clusters' but then sleeps for a decent length of time inbetween whiles.

Up until the last day or 2 he'd only sleep in my or DH's arms, but we've now progressed to him sleeping in the chair with the blanket I've been holding him in while feeding wrapped around him.......seems to like being at a slight angle rather than flat.

Nighttimes he's in with me which is fine (DH in the spare room ) atm, but pray that we can get the sleeping in the carrycot/bed cracked sometime soon........

DH is being, well he's just being amazing, completely doting on Takunda and I can hardly believe how 'against' the whole pg he was at the start .

Right - off to lie on the sofa for a few more minutes before DS3 wakes up for another 1- 1 1/2hrs of cluster feeding.........

Helloooooo!

Just a quick one to say hi and I am back from sunny Norfolk! We had a lovely week away and apart from Monday when it rained and rained, the weather was pretty good - we played on the beach with the dcs a lot and had loads of fun. It was just what we needed!

We went to Norwich Cathedral and I was totally inspired by Julian of Norwich, an illiterate Norwich woman in the 1300s who had visions of Jesus and got them all written down - they are amazing.

Anyway must go for now - lovely to see you all again!

God bless xxx

CD thanks once again for doing this.

And thanks all of you for your prayers for me, we are getting to the end of term when things should calm down a bit. But I still have quite a lit of work to do before then!!

i certainly will captaindippy x

CD - wow another fantastic start to this months thread, well done you! (thanx for the prayers for my printer, but I'm afraid its going to printer heaven)

Dutchoma - I pray for Janipher, hoping she gets sorted very soon

MTGA - aw prayers for your continuing anxiety, and happy 5th birthday to your DS for tomorrow.

FA - hia, lovely to hear from you, sorry Takunda will only sleep with human contact, but hey isn't it lovely good luck with the moving into cot!

Roseylea - glad you had a fab time in Norwich, lovely lovely place I think lots of this thread must have been on hols last week.

Harrisey - glad thing are coming to an end for you, are you ready for the summer break?

CC - re: nice brown tan I only get a pushchair tan, brown hands and white fingers costa notts here I come (good job the twins think 'trent bridge' is the seaside) aw so sweet

Awwwww, thanks for your thanks, guys - pleasure!

Glad things are going well FA hon!

Glad you had such a lovely time away Rosey!

Right off to bed - exhausted ...

Hi guys, just a quick Hi from me - I'm still broadbandless and haven't faced resorting back to dial up until now. Also I'm marking 650 !!! a level maths exam papers and so I'm supposed to be working (ha ha).

Back soon hopefully - congrats to new parents - hope the baby daze doesn't last too long!

Hi Worz!! FAB to "see" you hon - hope you get Boradband soon and can rejoin our merry throng (typo there would have been )!!

My DH will help you with the papers if you pay him in biscuits .....

Maths - Bleurgh!!

A Level Maths - Super Blerugh!

So there is an end to the "Baby Daze" then!!?

I think i am just coming out of it! Dd (dc3) is almost 10 months - the a level marking is to extend my mat leave as long as possible.

Shame on you saying bleugh to maths

Where's Mary when you need her?!!

Worz I'm about to start marking Higher Geography (eq to AS level) - dunno how many papers, about 300 I think.

Owwch!

Hello everyone again!

Exam marking....hmmm, I could do that next year (I used to teach secondary English) - is it reasonably well paid? How did you get in to it Harrissey and Worzella?

CD thanks for doing the new thread - so are we going to have a weekly thread then? CD if it's too much for you to do it all, we could have some sort of rota going where we take it in turns to do a prayer roundup?

Hi Matilda - so glad that you have posted here. I read your other thread and have benpraying for you. Can I ask where you live (roughly)?

Just something about my prayer requests - I'm not starting ordination training, I'm starting what they call in the CofE a 'discernment process' which is where you offer yourself and then are scrutinised by various people (inc. a pyschologist) and have numerous interviews that can take well over a year or two to complete, and then at the end of all that you may or may not ne 'recommended for training'. So it's a long haul before you even start the training and it's going to be quite a few years before they let me wear a dog collar! I just wanted to clarify that because it's somewhere in the back of my mind that you can get arrested for impersonating a vicar!

Hello! Hope all you marking goes well, harrisey & Worz - Yes, Rosey - DH & I were thinking about poss doing some marking to earn a bit of extra cash next year (I did English degree & DH did Maths - Bleurgh!! ) Don't think it is that well paid though - couple of quid per paper, correct me if I am wrong guys!!?

• Sorry about getting yout training details wrong, Rosey - tbh, I got a bit dazed & tired while doing the summary & got in a bit of a muddle - Thank you for clarifying though & LOL @ being arrested for impersonating a Vicar!!

I'll see how doing a weekly thread / summary goes & if it gets too much, the rota sounds like a great idea - Do I have any willing volunteers!!?

Best go & have a shower .....

please can this little one be added to your prayers

www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=138&threadid=332954

Marking -- I got a panicked phonecall from the exam board 2 days before the meeting PLEADING with me to mark as they were so short of people.
To begin with I didnt earn much but it has gone up a lot and I will earn roughly £600 for about 50 hours work - it comes out at about £10/hr. You are really slow to start with and think you will never do it inthe time allotted but i gets faster as you get into it.

I like it - though I earn nothing like as much as my dh (he's a GP and earns that in about 10 hours work) it keeps my hand in as not currently teaching, it is MY money and I like earning something myself, and its quite amusing seeing what people have written!

the pnicked phonecall was 7 years ago!! Have been doing it that long.

CD you remain an inspiration to me, I have no idea how you put that prayer list together every month - but Thank you

Am in need of a good kicking if anyone would oblige? One of my best friends announced her 2nd pg last night when we were all in the pub - and I'm finding it hard to be happy for them because I'm so envious. Not a nice feeling and not one I'm proud of, I want to cry and shout and scream. Not feeling terribly grown up about this....... Rubbish, rubbish rubbish.

MTGAA - are you having counselling or therapy with your meds? Really feeling for you, and sending huge hugs.

CC - I understand how you feel, I can't have children and used to hear everyones good news with lumps in my throat, and I was always chosen to be god-mother, supposed to be some sort of consolation I was always honoured but that gut/heart ache feeling is horrible when you want a baby yourself soooo much!

This time next year you'll be there you've got that nice holiday to have first!!!!!

CC - and I wouldn't dare kick you!