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amber.
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Prayers continuing as I read through threads here.
And prayers of thanks for all who have kept us in prayer this last year and a half. First year after surgery, had mammogram, clear so far. Praise God! Four more yearly checkups to go before we're confident, as is always the case with breast cancer. But so grateful for good specialists and so many good friends and loved family.
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![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) for all
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Please pray for K, a lady from church. I popped out to the supermarket for a couple of things yesterday evening and spent best part of an hour listening to her and trying to persuade her that suicide is not the solution to her problems. May she be aware of God's love and forgiveness upholding her and may He send her the support she needs.
The government keep talking about the need to improve mental health services but nothing seems to have changed on the ground as yet. ![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin
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Telepath
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For amber., for continued healing.
For Graven Image's James, for healing.
Repeating after Grammatica. For her extended family.
For Gwai, for the H. Family.
For The Intrepid Mrs S and her sister-in-law and nieces and nephews and brother.
For guidance for saysay.
For malik3000, may all malignancy be gone. Gone from his lungs, gone altogether. Melanoma be gone!!!
For Nanny Ogg and the creature family, and for the driver who did this.
For R.
For Smudgie, for the next job to be the best she's ever had. For Y and N, especially.
For me to do a great day's work tomorrow.
For the Telemum.
Let not the finance monster break his restraining order.
For JoannaP's K, and for improvement on the ground to all mental health services.
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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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Lord, we need you
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On the prayer mat today.
Entrusting all who Grammatica holds dear in her extended famuly to our Lord's never failing care.
The Intrepid Mrs S's brother the strength and wisdom to work for his recovery. For her sister-in-law gainful employment and for little nephew joy, comfort, and security at the start of the school year.
Malik 3,000 restored to full health and confidence in your healing love.
Smudgie. For colleague and his wife comfort and calm. For baby
relief of any pain, freedom from all danger and illness, and rise him to a life of strength. For Smudgie, suitable and fulfilling employment.
Say Say, Wisdom in knowing what is right and the grace to accomplish it.
Gwai's Pastor and her family, Faith, and trust in healing.
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malik3000
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For saysay to be able to talk to a certain person
For healing for Gwai's college pastor
In thanksgiving for Amber's good mammogram results -- and continued good news the next 4 years
For JoannaP's K to be lifted up
For Telepath to have a great day at work tomorrow -- and may the finance monster be exterminated, never to rise again!
For Telemum
For my friend J's financial improvement and career development.
Thanks for all your prayers, shipmates. Again the wonderful news -- brain and liver clear! Deo gratias! Regarding the spreading in my lung, my oncologist and a bunch of other specialists will consult tomorrow and give me recommendations thursday. I give thanks that the spread has been slow and not big. One possibility, as noted above, is radiotherapy. Another possibility is a clinical trial of chemotherapy. This would be actual chemotherapy with the possibility of chemo-type symptoms -- unlike the monoclonal antibody therapy which was the opposite of chemotherapy -- i.e., it had just about no side effects and actually boosted my immune system. Some in the trial have had chemo-type symptoms and some have had no side effects. I've not yet had to feel like a "real cancer patient" and i've felt so lucky. I couldn't feel healthier. Another uncertainty is that i would have to have a specific mutation variant to do the trial and they would have to test for that. So there are uncertainties as to the next path. So, Most High, you've never let me down yet. Please guide me and everyone involved in my care in making the best decisions. (And thank you shipmates for your prayers and putting up with me being so long-winded)
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Golden Key
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Made it through my MRI yesterday. Thanks for all the support! ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Please pray for a friend enduring tribulations. Thanks.
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I've had fewer 'spells', but still not tip-top. I see the specialist in a week. Prayers appreciated for that and private intentions as well.
for those stated and unstated
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Welease Woderwick
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Holding us all in the living, loving Light.
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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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The Intrepid Mrs S
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For continued healing and freedom from fear for all praying here
'No-one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame'
The Grateful Mrs. S
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Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny.
Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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malik3000
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T, the lady at my church whom I did not know personally but who, like me, had melanoma, has passed away. Altho thanks be to God i continue to feel 100% healthy, this news does hit home. May she rest in peace and rise in glory.
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On top of Mum's other problems, her cat Simon died yesterday.
He had just turned 21 and has been a good companion to Mum, especially since Dad went into care.
For puss cat companions.
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http://saysaysay54.wordpress.com
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recklessrat
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Lord, hear our prayers
I'd be grateful if people could add to your prayers my dad, who is being operated on tomorrow and L from my church who has been operated on today. Also, I started a new job this week and have shown myself up to be a complete idiot already, so I would like to pray for the confidence and strength to carry on.
God bless us all
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Uncle Pete
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For my friend, Harry, who was operated on for cancer today. He celebrated his 90th birthday in May. For various reasons, I want him around a little longer.
And for my friend Ron, who just had a stroke. I spent 3 days with him in August. He's just a few years older than me.
and for Norman. A private intention.
Please continue your prayers for Jim, mentioned upthread. It is a long slow road to recovery.
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Telepath
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Repeating after Mad Cat, ebeth, Graven Image, Mrs S, Golden Key, malik3000 (melanoma be gone!) PeteC, recklessrat, Tree Bee.
I want to achieve an amazing feat of coding by Friday, and also I would like to meet the love of my life at an event tomorrow. (Since I notice my prayers a coming up roses lately, why hold back)
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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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Uncle Pete
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In the interim I spoke to another friend whose partner is just undergoing an 8.5 hour surgery for colo-rectal cancer. Please pray for Robert, partner of Jim Y.
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lord have mercy.
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Welease Woderwick
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Holding us all in the living, loving Light.
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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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God = love.
Otherwise, things are not just black or white.
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Sir Kevin
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According to family, Coop (my father-in-law) is out of the woods and should be going home with his wife Thursday after successful minor surgery. He had a blood clot.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Writing is currently my hobby, not yet my profession.
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bad flooding over an area many hundreds of square miles. Many homes and people cut off. it's almost 1 am and I've just been called in to help at the firehall doing paperwork and pressy stuff. pray for us.
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"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Pine Marten
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Lord, hear us
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Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. - Oscar Wilde
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Prayer really needed here. Please.
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"Gentlemen, I wash my hands of this weirdness."
Captain Jack Sparrow
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Wesley J
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Lord, graciously hear us
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Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny.
Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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malik3000
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For comet and the people suffering in the Alaska flooding
for Birdie
It is early morning, the time of day when I tend to be most alone with my thoughts, and anxieties – and with God.In this early morning hour, I am waiting to hear, in a hour or 2, more of what my wonderful medical team has to say has to say about what are the possibilities that they see lying ahead. But of course i must start by giving thanks for the start of another day of beauty and continued good health, and of knowing i have sisters and brothers who love me.
Concluded is the treatment which, i believe, has done much to keep the spreading of the melanoma to such a very slow extent and may also have been responsible for it not invading my liver ot brain up to this point. So again I give thanks for how I have been blessed so far, I pray for guidance and continued healing as I -- and those who have my back medically, spiritually, and friendship-wise -- move forward.
Now it's time to move to the next phase. While the treatment did very much slow down the melanoma spread -- to a level that could not have been expected just a few years ago -- it has not eliminated it. There was in fact a spread, but a very small one – again thanks be to God, from 2 to 3 spots in one area of my lung. And that treatment is now concluded. At this time there are no more treatments like that one, i.e., that are FDA approved. So at this point the possible options that have been mentioned are
A) radiation, and/or
B) being part of the 2d phase of a clinical trial of a drug (if the melanoma in my body is of the right particular mutation, which will require a test to find whether or not I have that particular mutation.) (And if I am eligible for that test, it would be real chemo, which might mean I might have chemotherapy-type side effects, unlike my previous treatment, which was an immune system booster, the opposite of chemo. Some in the test have had those side effects, others have not.
So much is unknown, so...
May I have discernment in making the right decisions,
may I be able to find out whatever other good possibilities are out there(the clinical trial scene being ever-changing),
may I remain healthy in body and mind.
For ALL who are putting up with this in whatever stage they are in, may there be a cure for melanoma , or at least a therapy that enables folks to keep it under long-term control and live a long healthy like as is the case now with HIV/AIDS
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For Malik, Smudgie, comet and all others in need of Your loving grace.
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Don't get your knickers in a twist over your advancing age. It achieves nothing and makes you walk funny.
Prayer should be our first recourse, not our last resort
'Lord, please give us patience. NOW!'
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reading praying
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Prayers.. and for a cure for melanoma, yes.
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Prayers for all here.
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Welease Woderwick
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Holding us all in the living, loving Light.
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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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Please, for the Pham family, a grandmother and granddaughter who have just lost the daughter/mother in the generation between them. And my wee goddaughter, who was to have been baptized this Sunday but must now make a hurried trip to Vietnam for the funeral, along with the rest of the family.
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Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!
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for the Pham family, and LC's goddaughter...
for all those caught in floods, and other disasters
for the people who are my neighbours, who suffer the uncertainty of living in an occupied territory.
for all who mourn, who are afraid, who are in pain or sickness. For all who put their faith and hope in God.
and please pray for me, my colleague and our families managing at home without us.
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Prayers of thanksgiving for the good news I've been reading here, and prayers of healing and comfort for all in trouble or anxiety.
In the greater context of everyone's prayers this is such a small thing, but...can you please pray that we find my DP's wallet? It went missing on the day that was busy around here, DP was also dealing with RA pain and the fatigue that pain causes. She's maintaining an exterior calm, but is actually (I found out) very anxious and self-recriminatory, especially since we were set to travel to the East Coast and Canada next week, and now she has no driver's licence, military ID, etc. Thank you!
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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Praying
Still waiting for the word on Mr.M's job, should know about the redundancies in the next few weeks but lots of stress at his work as people wait for the axe to fall.
I've been given a last minute chance to take some of the young refugees I work with sailing for 5 days. It's all last minute so prayers for help with final funding and practical plans would be gratefully received.
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'It's a thing that is,' said Granny sharply. 'Don't go spilling allegory all down your shirt.' Terry Pratchett
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Please pray for my friend V. She has multiple medical and psychiatric problems. The "authorities" are making a lot of difficulties about her benefits and it is stressing her out.
Thank you.
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Please pray for my friend, Tim, Probably would roll his eyes if he knew I was doing this, but he's a kind, cool guy that deserves uplifting.
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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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Back home now post surgery on Wednesday. Thankful that everything seems to have gone ok. I'm not too uncomfortable and the initial assessment of the cyst during surgery suggests it is benign. We'll have the full analysis next week.
My digestive system is totally upset post surgery at the moment. Feeling a bit anxious about slightly sore leg after the first night post op when I was very immobile. It's probably just muscular but I keep imagining myself a DVT!I have to give myself an anticoagulant injection every night for a week starting tonight. I have never done an injection before so feeling rather nervous about it!
Would also appreciate prayers for digestion and leg to settle down, for quick healing and the benign status to be confirmed.
Thank you faithful people. I appreciate it and add my prayers for you as well.
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Please continue to pray for Mr Creature & his family following their son's death in a cycling accident (hit and run).
Please pray that the fundraising event for the family tomorrow night will be well attended in celebration of a young life taken too soon.
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Repeating after birdie, comet, Chamois, Grammatica, The Intrepid Mrs S, Kelly, Lucia, malik3000 (melanoma! Be! Gone!) Malin, PeteC, Lamb Chopped, Sir Kevin, Taliesin, and Nanny Ogg, and LutheranChik.
For the guy who unburdened himself to me today, to get the help he needs.
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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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evacuating the whole village. My place is high and dry. myself and kids and dogs, etc all safe. spending every waking moment at the emergency command center. water expected to rise addition 1.5 to 2 feet, which is way bad. please keep us in prayers.
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"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.” -Calvin
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Be it as it may: Wesley J will stay. --- Euthanasia, that sounds good. An alpine neutral neighbourhood. Then back to Britain, all dressed in wood. Things were gonna get worse. (John Cooper Clarke)
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Welease Woderwick
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Holding us all in the living, loving Light.
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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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