Mumsnet Christian Prayer Thread for late summer

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It's quite amazing how quickly the time goes. Looking back over the past six weeks there is not much that really lights up apart for the birth of Oliver Benjamin on the 1st August to Mr and CaptainCaveman and Tom. Praise God that all medical intervention went well and that Oliver was born safely and is feeding well
We pray for two other expected babies: Myjobismum's which is expected at the beginning of October and Swaliswan's who only just confirmed the pregnancy. Pray that all may go well, bearing in mind her miscarriage in February.

The weather this summer has not been very good and a lot of us have been on holiday and have struggled to a greater or lesser degree:- Soozy, Podmog, Dumbledoresgirl, Amber and Mary (who is still away).
We give thanks that Mary was not seriously hurt after an accident on her bike; also for her church placement in an immigration reception centre. Nearer the time this will need much prayer.

We pray for Weegiemum who suffers with frequent kidney stones and who has the additional difficulties in obtaining adequate pain relief.

We give thanks with Myjobismum for a much better prognosis for the baby of a young friend. Initially it was thought that the baby might have to spend months in hospital, the baby will still need a lot of care but it is now thought that it will be weeks rather than months.
We also pray for Henry,(thanks to StickyJ who flagged this up for us) who has had operations and is still very up and down and for the baby of Mascarpone's friend in New Zealand who is suffering from trigonocephaly.
We pray for two other 'newbies' on the thread: longlegted and livvylouis.
We pray for Amber and Roseylea, Notquitegrownup and Notsofarnow, (prayers for dd, GCSE results and MRI scan results),Jentlydoesit, FAQ, Mufti and PandaG.
We give thanks with Marslady who managed to support the parents of two fatboys and twind, within the space of a week. we have seen real answers to prayer here.
We pray for those who have suffered bereavements: Onlyjoking, Evenstar and MartianBishop and we pray for Mummy2TandF on the coming first anniversary of her dh's death
Last but not least we hold up our own CaptainDippy who is still not in the right place healthwise and who is struggling in other ways as well. Lord, bring someone alongside her to guide her, support her, emotionally and practically and please Lord, make her aware of your loving presence.

We praise God for the ability to pray for one another in the certainty that He hears our prayers and deals with them in His infinite wisdom and compassion.

Prayers for mummydoit, how old are her dc?

So so about MDI I am glad he is at peace though, but God give that family the strength to hold it together right now. xx

Glad stone has passed WM, praying meeting goes well tomorrow honey. xx

about Doreen Sooz; but glad she is with her beloved DH now Praise God for TJs progress too

Thank you for popping by OJ - continued prayers for you and your lovely children sweetie How has the summer been? xx

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THanks DO for a fab roundup, much appreciated.

CC so glad to hear you are healing well, frisbee indeed!

SS praying for your peace, I had a mc between my 2 and also joined knicker checkers anonymous for a few stressful months.

WM praying for your meeting with the GP to doscuss your pain relief, I hope it is much more productive than your last trip to the surgery.

Prayers for me too today please, I have to pack for we are off back to my mum's tonight for a few days to round off the holidays. DH and I had a misunderstanding last night, didn't row, tried to talk it out but my irrationality and DH's damned immovable logic that doesn't do the warm and fuzzy intangibles meant that we didn't get very far and I slept very little for the second night in a row. We tried to sort things out this morning, spent another 2 hours talking and are getting somewhere, but we will now be apart until the weekend (and will then be with my parents) without the chance to talk more. Please pray that I will get everything done today that I need to do and that we will continue to move forward together.

thanks xx

Good morning all and thank you DO for the lovely roundup. Another thank you from me for family time this weekend too, and for a bit of sunshine too.

Special prayers for Mummydoit and for you Swaliswan and for all on this thread. Too many to name individually, but holding you all in my prayers.

I've just dropped off the dcs at church for holiday club, along with 200 other under 12s!!! It was very organised chaos and looked great fun. However, I realised that we have been twice before and the first time ds2 broke his leg - not at church - and then the second time was one of the worst weeks of my life, for complicated reasons! Sooooo - time to pray for protection for the NQGU family that we might know who our rock is this week and that we might be safe in Him.

God bless all.

Hia all, just a quick thank you for my dmum had a good mamogram result (for a change) she is delighted and that my ddad is eventually getting his teeth sorted, although quite painfully

Prayers for all during this last week of school holidays

Prayers and Praise for your parents Sooz

Hope the meeting goes ok Podmog, praying.....

Praying for God to strengthen and support your marriage Panda. xx

How did the boys get on at holiday club nqgu? Prayers of protection over you all.

I am shattered and a bit all over the place, but doing ok

hi all,
just thought I would update you all on my friend with the twins, she is ok but the little one is still in special care and they are awaiting the results of an MRI scan. Please pray that he is ok and that his pearents have the strength to get through this difficult time.
Thought you may like to know that I attended a new church on sunday and it was fab, warm, welcoming and very child friendly.
Prayers to you all xxx

ok just about caught up on new thread - not sure if I missed anything off old thread.

Just returned from 5 day festivalin Ross on wye where R.T. Kendall was the morning speaker - he was fantastic. Weekend was based on life of Joseph - some really powerful teaching.

DD's GCSE results were fab A in music, B in R.S. C's in product design, science, maths, and some others tht I can't think of right now and a D in english. Really chuffed for her.

Update on her MRI scan she is being referred to a specialist multi disiplinary team who can deal iwth her as strucurally there is nothing wrong with her shoulder but its all to do with being lax jointed and when she injures herself her ligaments etc dont contract again like you or I. All her muscle/brain patterns are mixed up. Please pray that this team can help her.

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Glad it went well Podmog xx

Fab to DDs results, nsfn What's next for her? Praying for shoulder etc. xx

Thanks for updates on twins, LL - praying for that family, please update on twin2's MRI when you can.

Off swimming this am and then to farm / soft play this pm, meeting another MNer and going with my BF, so should be mad, but fun

She is off to sixth form next wed. Just realised i'm not very organised both older girls need bags, pens etc etc. No name labels in younger two's clothes, trousers to take up and i'm working fri, sat, mon

Good morning all. Please could you pray for ds1's friend who has gone with him to holiday club this morning. He doesn't go to church normally, so prayers that his first encounters go really well. Thank you.

(Oh and if you have a moment, please could you pray that I will find the Very Long and Very Useful List of things to do, which I spent absolutely ages compiling at the weekend (and the parking ticket too, which was with it . . . .)

And Amber, our vicar is back from hols and wondered if he could quote your posts made back in July, in the quarterly magazine which goes around the four churches in our parish? He was really moved by your descriptions of how hard it can be to join a new church and wanted as many people as possible to know about it. I'll CAT you with a copy of your posts, so that you can vet them, but he did say that he would like to use them just as they are, as he could see you were writing straight from the heart.

Thank you. God bless all.

NQGU, he's very welcome to quote from them. Has he also seen ?

Prayers aplenty for everyone

Aw CD - prayers you find strength, hope you enjoy swimming and the farm.

NQGU - I think its fab your vicar taking action re: ambers postings, prayers for more understanding

Sorry more prayers needed, had meeting at work last night, and to cut a long story short I am unemployed from next week apart from my 4 contracted hours which they can't touch! I am really peeved off that after a 3 year programme to build my confidence to teach, to believe I can do it, AND DO IT! and to have it taken away so cruelly.

I just feel everything I do to better our standard of living comes back to bite me on the bum!

I can only pass it over to God in prayer that the right result will come out of this and that the brick walls become less frequent.

God has something greater in store Zip he really does.

After the mountain top experience of last five days under teaching of R.T. Kendall i'm feeling flat, frustrated, demented with dc who wont listen and teenagers with an attitude.

NSFN - Woah teenagers!!!!!!!! Prayers for them to 'listen' (not in their dictionary) and for them to have 'good' attitude! (all I get is "Eh No")

And thanks, yes I agree, God may have something better in store for me!! could do with a better faith on that side of things, can only pray! (and look for open doors)

Praise God for ds2's weight gain - 17 and a half oz in 6 days!! Is breast milk fab or what!?

Also prayers for the house viewings today - we had one at 4 and have another at 5.45. Praying that the right person will see the house and want to buy it.

See CC, we told you it would work out. Hope they will not be so fanatic in their weighing now, I still think it should be banned unless the baby is quite clearly not thriving. People are so quick to blame the breastfeeding, I don't understand it after all these years.
Soozy, sorry about the job situation, here's hoping something will turn up soon.

Thanks Amber. This was the post I copied to him (sorry, my CAT won't work)

For most people, going to church for the first time can be a little daunting, but for me it still involves the sort of planning that makes a military operation look like a sunday stroll. There are the questions of "Where do I park? How do I get in? How will I know which books to take? Who will speak to me, and if I'm stressed will I remember what to say? Where will I sit if there are lots of seats to choose from (yup, we often find that difficult), how do I know what to do, and what not to do during the service? Will I get the responses wrong? Will I stand up when everyone else is sitting down (it matters to me - other people's opinions aren't the key thing). Will there be flickering fluroescent lighting, will there be machinery noises or sudden clanging from bells/people moving things about, will there be incense to cope with? Will I be expected to shake hands with people, will I forget to make eye contact so they end up thinking I'm rude, will I forget to say thank you and goodbye if I'm stressed, will someone invite me to do something or join something and then I have to work out what the right response is... What happens if I don't cope - will I be able to get out ok and get home ok?

You can't experience our hypersensitive/rule-based world, unfortunately, unless you put yourself in a room with strobe lighting and rock-concert noise levels and fill it with strangers who wave their arms at you in scary ways and grip your hand so tightly that it hurts, and get cross with you for apparently no reason at all because you didn't see the signals on their faces that said they were happy/sad/cross.

We can't change the normal church services, and nor should we, but we can ask that people tell us what the hazards are before we get there, and support us a little, and realise that we're often just SO exhausted by the end of a service.

Sooz - hugs and prayers that something good will come up. Is there another sports centre near you? Ours are always desparately short of good teachers.

PS Amber, I can't get the link you provided to work. Is that because I don't have access, or because of a hiccough?

I had a good meeting with new GP yesterday and seems everything is going to be fine.

But yesterday had a bit of a contretemps with SIL. We're going to visit MIL for the weekend and SIL has asked her mother to come for Sunday lunch. Her mother is difficult, boring, quite offensive, especially to our kids, in a sweet faced "I didn't mean it" sort of a way, so I asked dh to say it would be easier to not have her there - we are only in Ireland for 36 hours.

SIL has taken huge offence, which I didn't mean to give. But I'm not sure many people have to eat lunch with their BIL's MIL - and I'd like to have time with MIL, whose birthday it was this week. Other MIL lives round the corner and they see her every other day.

Ended up with a confrontational thread in relationships I have had deleted. Feeling very washed out by it and am now dreading the weekend.

Prayers if you can for reconciliation and peace in the family. I'm not very good with families - mine is pretty disfunctional - and dh's really irritate me a lot of the time.

Sometimes I think that I'm not actually very nice!