MN Christian Prayer Request Thread: JUNE - WEEK THREE

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Hello! [smile} Here's the summary for the last week .....

MaryBS - Her friend Judy died, praise God for her life & the wonderful place she is now! Prayers for her DD as she copes with the loss. Prayers for Mary & her DH as they approach DS' headteacher about his disagreeable Ed. Psych report & as they face difficulties regarding the amount of time Mary spends doing "church stuff". {{{hugs}}}

Sooz - Prayers for the new business as it sets off on it's voyage!! Prayers for her to get her baackside off "that fence"!!

weirdbird - What was the outcome on DD's allergy testing???

bobsmum - Church leader is improving after his recent heat attack Group got off to Malawi ok. Prayers for bobsmum's new job & possible exhibiting of craft on local new age centre....

notsofarnow - Prayers for a good time as she heads off on holiday. Praise that counselling seems to have helped her oldest DD, prayers that this healing would continue.

CaptainCaveman - Prayers for DS' v.poor appetite.

BedofRosesitAin't - Welcome! Lots & lots of prayers for "waivering faith" needed!

mufti - Prayers for DH who has hayfever which triggers asthma. He has been feeling rubbish and has had bad headache / migrane for a long while now.

harrisey - Praise God she is feeling better, prayers for complete recovery to come soon.

Rosey - Has been finding things v.tough, esp with situation at work - feeling undervalued & intimidated.

Worzella - Back online - yey! Poo prayers for DS please - needs to learn to "poo appropriately"!!

mumtogusandalbie - Things are getting a little better, she is getting through each day with the support of her mum, MIL & drugs. Prayers for healing. DH has expressed an interest in them getting back together - prayers for wisdom in dealing with this.

CaptainDippy - Prayers for tiredness & continued prayers as she approaches the start date of DH's new job ....

please pray i will do my marking. I'm really behind!

Praying for you Harrisey!

Please pray I get off mn now and go start some writing! Dh is in the pub, ds just in bed and I have peace and quiet.....see you later
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Hello all!

Just a quick prayer request...could you pray for dh's work situation please? He is having a hard time. Sorry I can't go into details but it's all just getting too much for him atm...

Well thank you for praying for dd's excema. It is getting better, and the extreme agony has passed. Thank you God!

CCM and Harrissey, praying for your work.

NQGU, thanks for your CAT message and also for linking to the other thread. I will reply to your e-mail...sorry I haven't yet, I'm just v. scatty atm. (the same goes for DutchOma. You kindness means so much to me; I'm so sorry I haven't e-mailed). You know you go through periods when life suddenly gets really hard for a while...that seems to be where we are now.

Hey, guess who is preaching at Evensong in St Albans Abbey on Saturday??? Desmond Tutu!!! Isn't that amazing??!! I am going out with my sis for the day but am trying desperately to wangle it that we are back in time to go. I reckon the seats will all be taken ages before the service starts.

Actually, my other less important prayer request. My sis and I are off shopping on Sat and I need to get an outfit to wear to FIL's wedding - except that we are on such a tight budget atm, so we are going to Bicester shopping village which is one of these reduced-price places - so could you offer up a prayer that I find something that looks great but is cheap? There's a Monsoon there with 70% off prices...please Lord! Something nice for me!!! I don't want to look scruffy at the wedding!

Don't worry Rosey, we'll talk when we meet, not long now. Praying that dh will cope with the workload and that you will find something nice to wear for your FIL's (second?) wedding. Praise be to God that dd is better with the eczema.
Praying for you all but most for the poor lady on the other thread that NQGU brought to our notice.
Oh Lord have mercy.

Am so stressed out I cant sleep (SO much to do!!)

Main problm is dh is working away last week, this week, most of next week. Sooooo tired with dealing with the children plus working, plus having a bit of a crisis of faith which is confusing me a little ........

But when dh is away I never sleep right ... not since the burglary in March ... have been awake about 10 times tonight thinking I heard a noise. Its so muggy here we have had to sleep with the windows open, so that mkes more stress.

There's a verse in the Psalms (cant be bothered looking right now) where it says something like 'God grants sleep to those he loves' - well, I wish he would grant some to me!!

Morning all

praying for you Harrisey, for sleep and peace while DH is away, and that you are able to get all your marking done. Hugs honey.

Rosey, praying for DH, and for your DD. Hope you find a lovely outfit for your FIL's wedding too, and that God, through Desmond Tutu, really inspires you.

Praying for your friend CD.

much love to you all xx

Praying for you Rosey and Harrisey, well praying for all of us actually!!

Hope you are all ok?

Happy Friday !

Hellooooooooo! (sorry twins just been watching Winnie Pooh videa)

CD - howz that little p baby is she still a 'lickle pickle'? and has your dh started his new shifts you were really anxious, I pray you get support! and prayers for your friend of a friend 'Adam' please keep us updated.

CC - good girl, how disciplined u r! any more than 30 words done yet? and how is that scrumy little boy of yours? at DH (half a cider could go down well atm)

harrisey - I hope you to get some sleep, we've been burgled before, nasty, nasty business, leaves you very unsettled, {{{{{{{hugs}}}}}}

Roseylea - 'Desmond Tutu' prayers for your DH with his work problems.

Mary - Hia my 'off the fence' supporter! how are you?

and Hellooooooooooooo to everybody else, twins still a little off colour, not eating well atm, but I'm sure a McDonalds will go down ok at Asda tonight (whilst I am working till 10.30pm)

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ah well Sooz, I never actually made it off mn!! However, have done some work this afternoon, and have surprised myself by now being up to 400 words - hey thats a 10th of it done!!

Ds asleep on settee (hence I got some work done), just off to wake him.

love and prayers to all

Hello, happy saturdays, prayers for everyone for a lovely day!

Hi Sooz! (waves). And everyone else too - where are you all?

Please pray for strength for the mother of a lady at the church I'm due to lead/preach at next week (on healing!), who's just been diagnosed with a bowel tumour. Please pray that I find the right words to say at the service, because there are a number of people there WITH cancer (some of them not that old).

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Podmog - how AWFUL! {hug}. Praying for peace for you and your girls, and a restful night tonight

That must be so hard for you. Have the girls gone to bed yet? How have they been today? Praying that you will all have an undisturbed night.
Harrisey, have you slept any better?

Eeek - prayers please. I've been asked to take a service for 9am tomorrow. I have no service (it should have been a communion service).

In a moment of Godspiration, I've decided to do my reflection on creation, with some hymns and a blessing thrown in. Please pray I can bring this off.

Mary if its a moment of Godinspiration thats led to you choosing this sermon - then you KNOW it will be a success . Praying that the Lord guides you to speak HIS words tomorrow, so let it flow!!

Podmog thats awful, praying for a quiet night for you all tonight.

She's back!! Did you miss me!!!? My lovely friend from MN and her wee boy have gone home now. So I am just catching up on bits & pieces .....

Rosey - Praying for DH's work situation & hoping that you managed to get tickets for Desomond Tutu tonight - what an incredible opportunity!! Also praying that you & your sis find the perfect (& extremely cheap!!) outfit for the Wedding ..... any joy yet? Can recommend Supermarkets (George at Asda or TU at Sainsburys....)

harrisey - {{{{{hugs}}}}} Praying for you as you cope with everything while your DH is away - you are amazing & an inspiration....

MaryBS - - Eeeeek! @ service tomorrow morning - Praying for some serious "Godspiration" () I am sure it wil be fine - Just be lead by him hon. xx Also praying for the mother of the lady from church who has been diagnosed with the bowel tumour. Please update when you know more .....

Podmog - What a terrible thing to happen. Sooooooooo pleased no one was hurt - Praise God for protecting your girls. Praying for a good night's sleep for you all tonight - Praying the Peace of God would come to you & give you reassurance. xx

No more news on Adam; everything ok enough in DippyLand - just tired!! DH hasn't got a start date for the new job yet, will let you know when he does ....

Ahhhhhh- that's better - back to normal!!

Helo everyone,

I m having another bad day! I feel like this is all going to come out like a selfish whinge, but...dh is at work today. He is working 12 - 14 hour days atm and we are hardly seeing each other. Ds has come down with chicken pox, so our plans for the day (church, family lunch) have all been cancelled.

Before dh left for work at 7 am I asked him if he finishes work on time (not v. likely atm) could I go to the evening service - but I could tell by his expression that he wasn't keen on looking after the dc having worked all day.

Because dh works such long hours, he doesn't do any housework, so I am a bit like King Canute, trying to turn back the tide! The house is messier than I'd like it, so that makes me feel very inadequate and low, and obviously with dd's excema and food allergies she needs a lot of care, and all our food has to be made from scratch, so that takes time.

So often when the dc ask me to play with them I have to say no because I'm 'doing a job' and that makes me feel rubbish too. We were watching In the Night Garden the other day and ds was speculating as to why the 'blue Pontipines' never come out and he said 'they're too busy doing jobs' and that made me feel so because that's how he sees me. We can't afford a cleaner (dh's job = long hours, low pay), but I'm thinking of seeing if we apply for disability living allowance because of dd, which could help.

I just feel so cut off from church atm - because of dh's work I am looking atfer the dc most of the time so can't go to evening services, midweek things etc, and this month all the morning services I've been to I've been in the creche or Sunday school. We weren't able to get to see Desmond Tutu either

I work 3 days a week and this coming week dh's one day off is Tuesday, when I will be working. It just feels that our whole life is work and very little else.

This is going to carry on until November (dh is on a 6 month secondment). I honestly don't know how I'm going to manage. I have got friends, but no real lifeline-people who you can phone up and bawl all over or who can look after the dcs for an afternoon, that kind of thing. I feel v. isolated to tell the truth. I have a headache most of the time atm.

I feel like I should just be able to pull myself together and get on with it - after all there are much worse things that could happen, and I've got friends who are single mums and who manage well so why can't I?

Sundays are the worst days for feeling sorry for myself!

I don't really know how to ask you to pray. Please do, though.

roseylea - i pray that you can be kinder to yourself, miss out some jobs, and get dcs to help if poss
perhaps get dcs to bed and then get to evening service, you know it will help
i am nowhere near on top of the domestic engineering , and i only have one dc , and dont work outside the home
i want to go to bible study , dh doesnt mind, but am normally too tired!
i go to 2 different churches. alternating. but feel like i belong at neither sometimes.
have you no family nearby, what about homestart?

Rosey - praying honey. Sounds like you have an awful lot on your plate right now. Wish I lived closer to be able to give you a hand.

Thank you!

Well I took the dc to a cafe this afternoon so we got out of the house which has got to be good!

Dh has said that he will try to be home by 6 so that I can go to the evening service. He might not tho...depends on whether he can escape or not!

Mufti, our families do live nearby but there are 1001 reasons why they don't offer much support. My mum looks after ds one day a week and that wipes her out, so I really can't ask her to do any more. She and my dad (who works all hours too) are very caring and love the dc to bits.

I have been thinking about giving up work but that would put a stress on us financially and I'm not sure it'd solve the problems anyway.

Thank you for your messages!

Is there anyone at church you could ask to give you a hand? Lots of people would be willing to help but don't dare offer in case they come across as patronising/ are afraid you will be offended but would love to be asked. I would fall in that category.
Is there any chance you could have a housegroup at your house? How far are you from church? Geographically, I mean.
And Mufti is right, you are awfully hard on yourself. Somehow you will get through, when does school finish? Once you are in the summer holidays it will be November before you know it.

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