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Thread: Prayers of the Faithful
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ErinBear
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For Malik
For friends and family of the hit and run victim
For everyone here
and thanks very much for remembering me in prayer as well, my appointment is tomorrow I'm very grateful
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Malin
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Malik
Reading and praying
-------------------- 'Is it a true bird or is it something that exists within a-' 'It's a thing that is,' said Granny sharply. 'Don't go spilling allegory all down your shirt.' Terry Pratchett
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Doc Tor
Deepest Red
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I almost lost my dad to a gust of wind today: fortunately, there was a tree between him and the not insignificant drop into the valley below. And he's on warfarin for a pulmonary embolism and DVT.
I realised at that moment I'm not ready to say goodbye just yet.
Both and
-------------------- Forward the New Republic
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St Everild
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Please pray for my cousin's family. His youngest daughter aged 9 died on New Year's Day after a long battle with some sort of cancer.
For the child, and her parents and her 2 older sisters, please. They are not people who have any faith, so this will be very difficult for them all.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Holding us all in the living, loving Light.
-------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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QLib
Bad Example
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-------------------- Tradition is the handing down of the flame, not the worship of the ashes Gustav Mahler.
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Margaret
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Malik and ErinBear - for helpful appointments, excellent treatment, and complete healing.
And for all the concerns and griefs voiced here, or held in our hearts.
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Niteowl
Hopeless Insomniac
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-------------------- "love all, trust few, do wrong to no one" Wm. Shakespeare
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Earwig
Pincered Beastie
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quote: Originally posted by Margaret: Malik and ErinBear - for helpful appointments, excellent treatment, and complete healing.
And for all the concerns and griefs voiced here, or held in our hearts.
Amen!
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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still struggling a bit with the flare-up of symptoms that started christmas. I tried to go off the pain meds today so I could work but the pain came back and poleaxed me. so, back on the drugs and back to stoner-land. having lots of little wierdnesses otherwise, also. nothing i can't cope with I guess, but it sucks just the same. I really liked pretending to be normal. I'm in a lot of pain.
please pray for for N & G - mentioned on my codependence thread - spent time with both tonight and they're both very sad and suffering. moving forward, but it hurts.
could I also ask for a prayer for a big writing project? It's a big one, and a good one, but as always I fear failure so it's hard to start. but I have to start. I need courage and drive and tenacity and all that good stuff. it's very very worth it.
-------------------- Evil Dragon Lady, Breaker of Men's Constitutions
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Raptor Eye
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For Malik's meeting tomorrow, and full recovery; For Comet; For all on this thread; For H's family now the funeral is over; For people who are feeling suicidal; For those affected by the suicide of others, however long ago.
Lord, we ask for the presence of the Holy Spirit to be known, and for your gifts of inner peace, strength and hope to be given. Amen.
-------------------- Be still, and know that I am God! Psalm 46.10
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Loquacious beachcomber
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Ummm, comet, do you mind a wee suggestion? Go back and read your last 50 posts. You will meet a skilled writer, and she is you. There are entire city libraries filled with writings by those less skilled than you, so dig in and do what you feel called to do. And maybe give us a link when it is finished. After spell and grammar check, of course.
-------------------- TODAY'S SPECIAL - AND SO ARE YOU (Sign on beachfront fish & chips shop)
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malik3000
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for ErinBear - may the appointment go well today!
Doc Tor and his dad
St Everilds cousin & family - may they find strength and consolation, wherever ever they are in re faith - God still loves them and hears prayers for them and his cousin's daughter - may she rest in peace (age 9 - that puts things in a little perspective for me)
it was one of Atlanta occasionally brutally cold days yesterday - high in the 30s and windy - prayers for all everywhere without shelter in the cold
for lost and abandoned animal companions
for all [ 04. January 2012, 16:09: Message edited by: malik3000 ]
-------------------- God = love. Otherwise, things are not just black or white.
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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My d-in-law "B" has now been told her baby "A" must be seen in hospital on Monday - it seems she has something scarey illness. Also "B" must be checked again in hospital. And the tiny flat they have is being seen by a council person on Tuesday to decide if they can be shifted - they really desperately need to be shifted to a decent size home.
-------------------- London Flickr fotos
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Curious
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The news I was hoping wouldn't come has - there is to be restructuring in the Department which will mean the work I and a colleague do will be reconfigured to form one post. One of us will be out of a job.
I feel sick to my stomach.
-------------------- Erin - you are missed more than you could know. Rest in peace and rise in glory - to provide unrest in the heavenly realms.
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Ags
Knocked up
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((((( Curious )))))
-------------------- I think that we are most ourselves at our best, because that is what God intended us to be. The us we really like, the us that others love to be with. Moth
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Telepath
Ship's Steamer Trunk
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For healing for malik3000.
For healing for duchess's dad.
For duchess to achieve her bucket list.
For Latchkey Kid and all those affected by the loss of the co-volunteer. For the driver that killed him.
For healing for QLib's D.
And what Golden Key said: for the best possible outcome for all our needs and wants, for everyone to find and get good help when they need it, and for everyone to feel loved and to know that they matter.
For Golden Key's health, upholding, private intentions, and good currents throughout the year.
For the birdsofthesea.
For ErinBear.
For health and upholding of Dad Tor. Thank You that this didn't turn out for the worst.
For St Everild's cousin's family: the youngest daughter, her parents, and her two older sisters. Give them strength, Lord.
For comet, for healing. For N & G. For comet's writing project.
For H's family.
For those affected by the suicide of others, and those who are feeling suicidal.
For all everywhere without shelter in the cold, especially those in Atlanta.
For lost and abandoned animal companions.
For daisymay's B and baby A, for healing and for housing.
For curious's Department, and for the best possible outcome from the restructuring, not excluding that both might keep their jobs.
As for my job, funding would be gratefully received, kthx.
For E. and H. and P. and D.
For G. and her sister M.
For R. and J.
For my heart's desire.
For the artist within.
I have met my goals every day for the past 4 days! Yes! I have not had a lapse since last year!!!I would like to do better still tomorrow.
For K. and N.
The Telemum has had a surge of good energy. Thank you - I am sure your prayers helped!
-------------------- Take emptiness and lying speech far from me, and do not give me poverty or wealth. Give me a living sufficient for me.
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Dal Segno
al Fine
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-------------------- Yet ever and anon a trumpet sounds
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harmony hope
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I was told today that my colleague L is seriously ill with cancer - bit younger than me and a man of generosity and energy. He needs radio/chemo to shrink the tumor then an op then more chemical stuff but the specialists are extremely optimistic for a full recovery. Please pray for strength for him and his family and healing.
5 minutes later my father rang to tell me they think he'd had a minor stroke today (he already is on strong meds for high blood pressure) and is having an mri scan in next couple of days and can't drive for 4 weeks min. Please pray for him and my mother - they are both anxious.
Too much sadness in one evening Lord hear our prayers.
-------------------- 'God grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can and Wisdom to know the difference.'
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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reading and praying
-------------------- London Flickr fotos
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Enigma
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Thank you Telepath for your tremendous ministry - praying for all you have mentioned - also Harmony Hope - much love - I think we are in similar situations.
-------------------- Who knows? Only God!
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Rossweisse
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Praying through, for all, by name
I ask your prayers for E, who is a senior in high school and needs to decide what to do next - and her toxic father and sister are urging her to take the easy way out.
-------------------- I'm not dead yet.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
Ship's Mother and Singing Quilter
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Please pray for our dear friend, Georgia, who was just diagnosed with lung cancer with no chance of chemo or operating. That her last days on earth will not be filled with pain. That the family (and those of us who are married to the family) will deal with the end well.
MB and JB
-------------------- In Memory of Miss Molly, TimC, Gambit, KenWritez, koheleth, Leetle Masha, JLG, Genevieve, Erin, RuthW2, deuce2, Sidi and TonyCoxon, unbeliever, Morlader, Ken :tear: 20 years but who’s counting?..................
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Holding us all in the living, loving Light.
-------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Spiffy
Ship's WonderSheep
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Just got a text from my mother that my grandmother's headed to the hospital in an ambulance.
-------------------- Looking for a simple solution to all life's problems? We are proud to present obstinate denial. Accept no substitute. Accept nothing. --Night Vale Radio Twitter Account
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Lord have mercy!
-------------------- I cannot expect people to believe “ Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.” Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.
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QLib
Bad Example
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-------------------- Tradition is the handing down of the flame, not the worship of the ashes Gustav Mahler.
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Mrs Shrew
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Praying for all as I read.
I have my first day back at work after new year and woke up with a splitting headache-prayers to feel better and to be cheerful regardless would be appreciated
-------------------- "The goal of life is not to make other people in your own image, it is to understand that they, too, are in God's image" (Orfeo) Was "mummyfrances".
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malik3000
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{{{{{for Ye Olde Motherboard's Georgia and all who love her and care about her}}}}}
for each by name
for the horribly battered people of Iraq
for the best possible news re treatment at my dr's appointment in a few hours, and for a good attitude for me (in all things, not just my medical issues)
for a leadership program at my church that i am quite excited about. May it be fruitful for us participants and for our parish family and our community
for my cousin C that he achieve in a positive way his career goals and that he may be able to have a bigger part in his son's life and for better communication between both parents
and with Welease Woderwick I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Yes, God Who Is Love!
-------------------- God = love. Otherwise, things are not just black or white.
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Trisagion
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Prayers for all.
-------------------- ceterum autem censeo tabula delenda esse
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Yam-pk
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for all mentioned above
I've got my 3rd attempt at a driving test next Monday am, just hoping I can be relaxed and calm and not panic.
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North East Quine
Curious beastie
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Yam-uk - all the best drivers pass on their fourth attempt. But I will pray for you anyway.
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amber.
Ship's Aspiedestra
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Prayers for all...
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malik3000
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Yam-uk, it took me 3 times to pass my drivers test -- a prayer for calmness and success
Sorry to be so verbose this morning, but I'm gettin ready to go to the doc right now but i'd like to ask a little prayer for my cat Pulsar. She is basically healthy and has always been good with the litter box, but all of a sudden in the last couple of months she has started urinating in places she's not supposed to. Tho not an animal person my cousin is very patient (she peed on his back pack) because he knows how much she means to me. Grace for guidance to know how to help her and make things better. (Not Shipmates, but others might say "just get rid of her". That is NEVER happening, God brought her into my life quite by accident and she is family for life, my adopted non-human daughter) [ 05. January 2012, 15:46: Message edited by: malik3000 ]
-------------------- God = love. Otherwise, things are not just black or white.
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MrsDoyle
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Please can I ask for prayers for my brother who has started fitting because of his long term alcohol problem. He is so bemused and lost and his girlfriend and our family are somewhat equaly lost as to how to help or survive it all. Thankyou and God bless.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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Prayer for all on this thread.
Prayer for Jennifer to finally understand her life-long dilemma and that her husband can sustain his love for her as she heals.
Prayer for our church, for the energy and flexibility to do the ministries the diocese is giving us.
-------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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QLib
Bad Example
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K and N (again) please. Beginning to suspect that racism is playing quite a big part in N's predicament. I'd pray that those doing this to him develop a sense of shame, but I'd rather focus my energies more positively. They need all the help they can get tomorrow.
-------------------- Tradition is the handing down of the flame, not the worship of the ashes Gustav Mahler.
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Jabber
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Praying for all.
Just a quick minor one, I'm suffering with migraines and pregnancy insomnia and need a bit of a break so I have more energy. Prayers for rest would be greatly appreciated.
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PrettyFly
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I haven't been on the Ship, much less this thread, in ages. But I wouldn't ask if I wasn't desperate.
Brief back story - hubby is self employed and has been doing progressively well, but not well enough, quickly enough. When I returned to work after having the baby I went from full time to part time, although we originally hoped I could stay home full time. Since then we have survived mostly on very generous gifts from family, but now we're just drowning. Every month we wonder how we're going to pay the bills. We even moved to get lower rent. We owe a scary amount in back taxes and are constantly dipping into savings (and yes, I know it's good that we even have any savings, but we won't for long if we keep this up).
It has now reached the point where I have asked my supervisor if I can come back 4 days a week instead of 3. It would make a huge difference, not least because we'd get health insurance back, but it really is the last resort because it's important for both of us that I have time with the baby, not to mention how crappy hubby felt about himself having to ask me to do this.
Problem now is that it affects the girl who covers for me on my off days. She works in a different dept on the other days where she gets paid much less than the days she covers for me, and where I know she is unhappy. And while I feel awful and horribly selfish trying to take a day back from her, she is single, living with flatmates with no baby to support etc, so really, I feel like my need is greater than hers.
So I guess I'm asking for prayers that I will be able to get a 4th day at work starting very soon, unless some other solution miraculously presents itself...
-------------------- Screw today. I'm going for ice cream.
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agrgurich
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for all
-------------------- Life is a comedy to those who think & a tragedy to those who feel.-Horace Walpole
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Nenuphar
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Fervent prayers rising for all.
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Campbellite
Ut unum sint
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For each, by name. God knows.
Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayers.
-------------------- I upped mine. Up yours. Suffering for Jesus since 1966. WTFWED?
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Jigsaw
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For all who are troubled, may God's strength bring them comfort.
Through endeavour, failure, danger Father, be Thou at our side.
-------------------- You are not alone in this.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Holding us all in the living, loving Light.
-------------------- I give thanks for unknown blessings already on their way. Fancy a break in South India? Accessible Homestay Guesthouse in Central Kerala, contact me for details What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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malik3000
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For Curious and colleague and PrettyFly and colleague and all who are thrown into cruel work situations. Look, O Lord, and have mercy!
-------------------- God = love. Otherwise, things are not just black or white.
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Lyda*Rose
Ship's broken porthole
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quote: Originally posted by Lyda*Rose: Prayer for all on this thread.
Prayer for Jennifer to finally understand her life-long dilemma and that her husband can sustain his love for her as she heals.
Prayer for our church, for the energy and flexibility to do the ministries the diocese is giving us.
Erm. My Jennifer here is not our jlg. Another gal entirely, with her own woes.
-------------------- "Dear God, whose name I do not know - thank you for my life. I forgot how BIG... thank you. Thank you for my life." ~from Joe Vs the Volcano
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Spiffy
Ship's WonderSheep
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Report from Back Home is grandma 'just' had some high blood pressure. Not sure if I should believe them, because I found out over my Christmas visit her primary caregivers think the cure for when she's having audio and visual hallucinations is to have a little nap.
-------------------- Looking for a simple solution to all life's problems? We are proud to present obstinate denial. Accept no substitute. Accept nothing. --Night Vale Radio Twitter Account
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malik3000
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Thanks, thanks, and thanks again for the prayers.
My oncologist said that the type of situation i am in can have a wide variety of outcomes.
The negatives: When melanoma has shown up in more than one location it is always a serious matter, and by the current law of averages my chance of living multiple decades and reaching the age of my 98-year old grandmother is statistically low at this time. (But that's at this time; who knows what medical science may come up with at any time, and of course there are always exceptions to statistical averages.)
The positives: The 2 locations where something was found were both tiny, and i have none of the symptoms that would be cause for worry. Also that the 2 spots weren't in the brain or liver is also very good.
So -- especially since there is a great variability in outcomes making hard predictions difficult, that means nothing is sure. Which is exactly the way life always is! Having to deal with this situation just means that means that i am being reminded of this fact in a less abstractly intellectual way. More about specific treatment options next week. Tonight is the eve of Epiphany, the glorious Feast of Lights. Tomorrow is another work day (which lots of folks don't have), and tomorrow evening i begin a 5 session seminar that could point to new more productive/fulfilling direction in my life. So I give thanks that life goes on, and my prayer is that my body, mind and soul stay healthy and that i can have useful and creative goals to strive for. [ 06. January 2012, 02:10: Message edited by: malik3000 ]
-------------------- God = love. Otherwise, things are not just black or white.
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