Prayer thread for September

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Lord we lift up Your Name.

We give thanks for two new little beanies, Bobsmum's and Podglets?.

We give thanks that Worzella and Roseylea are quite a bit better, we pray for complete healing for both of them.

We also pray for CaptainDippy, not feeling great and struggling with a particularly difficult issue at the moment.

We pray for Podglet as she works through a week of incredible business. Lord we hold her up for Your particular love and care.

We also pray for Mummy2TandF. After the very sudden and unexplained death of her dh she is feeling totally overwhelmed by money worries and grief. Lord uphold her and give her all the practical help she needs. Also help her in answering questions from her ds and help him come to terms with his grief

We also remember Onlyjoking and Steve before the Lord with their three children.

We give thanks with Harrisey that her ds is settling into school and for a few days away. We pray for strength as she copes with the after effects of MIL's childcare

We give thanks with MaryBS for a wonderful holiday and pray for her as she takes up study and essay writing. We pray for her ds and his appointment with the paediatrician on 14th September

Zipadisoozy - prayers for peace of mind concerning ds and his new school. Prayers for him too as he settles into a class with two bullies from his previous school. Let's pray for his protection and right development.
We give thanks, with Marslady for the safe arrival of the two babies she looks after.
We thank the Lord for CaptainCaveman and her ds, who keeps us amused with the wonderful things he comes out with.
We remember Notsofarnow and the difficulties in her relationship with exh. We pray for wisdom

We welcome the new girls Scootergrrrl, Commanderchaos, Sandcastles and Shreksmissus. We pray for Mr Shrek and his very busy life and with him for all dhs who work so hard for their families. May the Lord bless them richly and keep them walking in His way.

Several young children have been brought to our notice for prayer:- Brook Kendrick who lives in Northampton and is very poorly with a heart condition in Great Ormond Street Hospital and C who is known to Bobsmum. He suffers from an inoperable brainstem tumour.

We commit ourselves and all our friends to the care of our great and wonderful Lord and Saviour.

zipads whats going on sweetie? I know what its like to have thoughts like that. you need to talk, talk, talk. [hugs]

Prayers Sooz... hope and pray you got it all sorted out {hugs}

Sooz, how are things this morning? {hugs}

Bobsmum, have you been following the debate on yoga in the press? On another board I'm on, there has been a big debate on this, and it contains some very interesting viewpoints.

I'm still undecided how I feel about it, but to a certain extent I think yoga has been sanitised to make it more acceptable to a non-spiritual (whether Christian or not) audience. To the extent where the vast majority of those practising "yoga" should be had up under the trades descriptions act.

I've no real wisdom to add, but I pray that you may come to a conclusion that does not compromise your beliefs but also does not alienate the educators of your children (it goes without saying that the former is the primary concern!). Let us know how it goes.

God bless

Mary

Finally feeling a bit better!
Noone but me and dd2 got the bug, but ds has a really nasty cold. Its just that time of the year again, isn't it - back to school, start sharing your germs!

geekymummy - so nice to see you, welcome Rosey - hope you are feeling better! Bobsmum - I dont know what I would do in your situation, I'd certainly be very wary of yoga in school, but its not something we've come accross (yet!).

Must go - time for nursery run

hi all, havent caught up from yesterday yet, but briefly please add chloe. dd of trace2 to your prayers , she has a thread under special needs, in hospital , 13 weeks, keeps having seizures
also , a tricky dilemma re christmas
, my mum is widowed, and would otherwise be on her own, so i always have had her over christmas, besides i want to see her anyway, (sadly unlike my brother).
this year dh wants to go to his parents, and then alternate , i agree with him it keeps it fair, and of course they want to see ds, and dont see him often, being so far away, but, they wont be on their own if we dont go there
i suggested taking her but he feels there isnt room , there , or in the car, i dont know if this is the real reason, or he doesnt like to ask his mum
she says, " i dont want to be a burden, and, lot of people will be on their own", that doesnt make me feel any better about it...

That's a tough one, Mufti. I feel that your dh is right to want to go and spend Christmas with his family, I also think your mum is right and a lot of people are on their own over Christmas. But, you must feel really sad at thinking of her on her own over the festive season. I don't think the idea of taking her to your pil is a good one.
How about finding out whether there is anything doing in her neighbourhood for people on their own over Christmas. I know our church runs a Christmas meal on Christmas Day, because "if you're on your own over Christmas, you are really alone".
And of course you can have her for a time before or after Christmas.
What a shame your brother does not want to be involved.
Will pray for Chloe

Sooz, as other people have said, you need to spit it out. I think we all feel something is up in your life and it comes out one way or the other.
How is this gardening business going? Not heard much about it.

Harrisey, glad to know you are feeling better. I had to opt out last night, with quite a high temperature and feeling rotten. Can't quite understand it as I was fine and went for an 'outing' with dh. Got home and felt awful. Better this morning but still very sore throat and cough. Never mind it will go before I am a little boy

I hate it when children are ill it just seems so illogical - praying for trace2 dd.

sooz hows things hun

rosey hope your feeling better.

I should motivate myself to go prepare tea or hoover out the car [sigh]

Morning all, feeling good today so Praise God.

Could you please pray for my friend who has been ttc for 16 months. She's just changed jobs and has dropped a whole tonne of stress in the process, so praying that this does the trick for them.

Update from ds.... when we (finally) have a second child we can call him Mr Robot if its a boy, and Miss Duckling if its a girl. Oh my word I adore that little fella!

Prayers and hugs to you all you wonderful wonderful people

oh, and a tiny little prayer for me to stop mning and get on with assignment....

Oh, CC - I LOVE your DS, what a character! GET ON WITH YOUR ESSAY!!! Praying for your friends as they TTC - praying the lifestyle changes make all the difference .....

Absolutely ROFL @ Sooz and her relatives on the trampoline - and your parents too - brilliant - Your whole family are, in fact, completely bonkers then!!? Ace! .... but what is happening with you and DH hon?? Please, please don't bottle it up, you can talk here, you know you can ..... email if you need. {{{{hugs}}} Lots of Prayers. xxxx

Glad you are feeling much better Rosey - Don't over-do it though Praying they can sort the x-ray etc soon so you can know where you are {{{hug}}} {{{hug}} Praying for your meeting with the Vicar too - all exciting stuff! Let us know how it goes .....

Oh mufti - So about Trace2's poor little Chloe Praying that they discover what is wrong and can treat her soon - So frightening for them all - Thank you for drawing them to our attention.... Praying for your Christmas dilemma sweetie (families, who'd have 'em, eh!!? ) Could you not all have Christmas together??

QofQ - So pleased you got to see your grandad hon - incredible that he was a bit better too! Cont to pray for him .....

Gosh - we are busy bees!! I am catching up with stuff and then I'll be dropping older two off at nursery, lots of jobs to do this PM ......

CC your litle man has made me LOL!

When I was expecting ds, dd1 thought Bagpuss was a good name for a baby, watever kind we had.

Good morning.

Please could you pray for Sandra, a lovely lady from my housegroup on holiday in France with her (Christian) husband. He has sadly and very suddenly died - just a year after retirement. Very .

Hugs and prayers for all.

God bless.

Oh nqgu Praying for Sandra and for her family. What an awful thing to happen. xx

nqgu praying for that lady, how awful.

Please say a little prayer for me this p.m am going on a assertiveness parenting course. Don't know what to expect and am at the stage that actually nothing is going to change my girls and i'm always going to have to battle with them to get them to put stuff away, tidy up, have a shower etc etc etc.

btw i did get kind of motivated - cleaned the car out and showered the dog. Flaming hard work that is I haven't got a shower over the bath but have got a shower cubicle so had to get in the shower cubicle with him to keep him in there. If anyone had walked throught he back door (shower room directely opposite) they would have laughed their socks off i guess.

Also think internet relationship is over - no email or text for 3 days. after him telling me on mon that I was the one that made him happy and there was no one else. Gut feeling something wasn't quite right anyway iyswim

Trust those gut instincts, nsfn! Glad you got motivated and did some stuff ..... needing some of that right now myself!! Praying for you - that you really get something out of this course this PM hon. xx

RIGHT - need to go do stuff .......

Hia, prayers for all of you, sorry I won't be around this weekend going to be busy on swimming instructors course and improve my non verbal dh, not spoken since yesterday morning, thought he might last night being my birthday, but no nothing!!! so ended up in bed at 6.30pm getting really worried now

mufti - I agree with Mary, re yoga, think it is non-christian this day and age did you speak to school?

Mary - prayers and thoughts for you oh wisdom one!

CC - rofl 'mr robot, miss duckling , prayers for your friend, indeed less stress more success!

NQGU - prayers for Sandra from your housegroup, so sad for her to lose her dh after just retiring, may the lord wrap her in his arms and take care of her

NSFN - 'ASSERTIVE classes' wow, prayers and good luck, I think you are doing fabulous, you have achieved sooooo much this last year, chin up gal and smile through the mess and dirt, (she says looking at ds bedroom) ahem!

CD - How are YOU?

See what you get out of the class NSFN. I wish I had had Bob Myers, Parenting teenagers, when my daughter was a pickle. Son never was, somehow.
I have had a look at Amazon and it seems really expensive. I had a copy and sent it to my friend Kim, about this time last year, don't know how helpful she found it, but no doubt she won't learn aything from it at this stage. If you like I can ask her to send it to you, let me know. Maybe you feel books don't really help.
Or she can send it to me and I can give (?) it to you when we come to Bala?

Chickened out on talking to the school re Yoga

What I'm considering at the moment is turngin up for the session and just seeing what goes on (and praying during it too!). Parents have been invited for any part of the week, so maybe that would be less confrontational.

Ds is already 'different' enough with his IEP etc, really don't want another thing to single him out.

Maybe I'll accidentally turn up for the smoothie making session too

Aw, look, Sooz is now calling me a TOOTHBRUSH! Shine Jesus Shine! Aint that the tooth?

Someone kick me off here to get on with my essay! I'm on the home straight for part 1, part 2 needs to be done next week (that's my deadline, it ALL has to be in the Monday after next!)

Mary get on with your essay! (Where do you geh your jokes from??!!)

Bobsmum sounds like a good idea to hang out at the school and see what happens.

Suze about your dh not being v. talkative - I do so pray that God will be the bridge between you and enable you to meet in the middle.

Well done for all your activities NSFN! How was the assertive parenting course? It sounds intriguing...

Hello DO! [waves] I am enjoying Jeff Lucas...

Hello everyone! Well I saw my vicar today and have a load of stuff to read / do with regard to preparing to train for ministry. It's exciting, and starting to feel very real. I feel like I have more than used up today's quota of brain cells, so I'm going to watch "What not to wear". (I may fall asleep.) Night night!

I make them up, they're that bad, can't you tell they're made up??

I meant to say in my email Rosey, email me all the juicy details of your meeting, I'd love to know how it went (or post on here, I'm sure everyone else would like to know too!)

Hi everyone glad ds made you all giggle too

NQGU praying for Sandra and her family, how terribly sad for her.

Mary - get off here and do your essay! I've done 350 words
Only another 4150 to do.....hee hee!

I've just been invited to a carol service - by someone I play hockey with. She had a 'christians in sport' t-shirt on last week at training that I commented on and we got talking about how dear our faith is to us. So tonight she asked me if I'd like to go to their carol service (at Christmas obviously!). How nice is that! I just love it when the Lord brings his sheep together [warm and fluffy emoticon]

Shattered, really struggling with the ending... will stop tonight and pick up again tomorrow! My head hurts!

Many thanks for your prayers for Sandra, Ladies. Her husband was a wonderfully open, lifelong Christian, which I am sure will be a comfort to her in the long run, but at the moment, it must be awful for her, stuck in a country where they speak another language. I believe her daughter has flown out to be with her.

Sooz, it occurs to me that your dh has been through a huge change recently with his job, and that this was not a change he chose. At first, launching the new business would have given him lots of adrenaline and a focus, but now he is working on his own most of the time and the gloss of the early days has probably worn off by now. His self esteem could well have taken a blow, being laid off by his last employer. I suddenly thought about this happening years ago to a friend's husband, and although he too was self employed and busy (he was a kitchen/bathroom installer) he missed working with mates, didn't deal well with issues that arose (he was a bottle-it-up rather than talk-about-it sort of person) and became severely depressed. If your dh is shutting down and not communicating, that can be an early sign. Would he talk with a GP? Hugs and prayers for you.

God bless all.