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Anna B
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Checking in from Connecticut. We are about 30 minutes away from the school in question. I woke up planning to spend this afternoon bitching at my son to do his chores but wound up giving him lots of hugs instead. Can't stop thinking about the parents who will never be able to hug their children again ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif)
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Grammatica
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Originally posted by Ethne Alba:
thank you Grammatica....and i hope your meeting went well.
It didn't, really. Unfortunately. What's up: An attempt through a change in a State Board of Education rule to remove most of the protections of tenure from state college faculty in Florida, and institute a Texas-style system of annual reappointments based on student evaluations of instructors, instructors' success at getting students to meet "quantifiable measurable outcomes" (unspecified), and "retention and completion"; i.e. how many students pass our classes with at least a "C."
It will be a real disaster if it goes into effect. So, yes, please continue to pray for all of us.
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Grammatica
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Prayers for everyone affected by the school shooting in Connecticut, not forgetting the relatives of the shooter, for the child witnesses and their parents, and for the souls of the little children who have died.
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Robert Armin
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![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) for the dead children of Newton, and their families
for the surviving children, and their families, who will be too scared to go to sleep tonight
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Originally posted by Anna B:
Checking in from Connecticut. We are about 30 minutes away from the school in question. I woke up planning to spend this afternoon bitching at my son to do his chores but wound up giving him lots of hugs instead. Can't stop thinking about the parents who will never be able to hug their children again
Thank you for your check in. This is a day for perspective. So sorry for the loss of all those killed and for whatever circumstances that led to this young man doing such a thing.
For all who are helping those who mourn
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Alex Cockell
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I know there's the shooting and all - but I'd like to report a little progress on the weightloss etc...
Far less fat is around my chest - but it's all moved south.. so I'm struggling with this fat "apron" or this mass that is just around the crutch and around my lap.. not the most comfy thing to deal with. Means I'm having to lift and hold it up when sitting down, hjow I sit on the loo etc.. and it is VERY frustrating.
Prayer support would be appreciated...
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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?
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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Kelly Alves
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Jesus Have Mercy. No words.
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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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Mary LA
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Prayer for all those affected by the school massacre in Newton -- and for parents and teachers everywhere
Praying through by name
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“I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.”
― Muriel Spark
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malik3000
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"Keep watch dear Lord over all who weep tonight." A priest in Connecticut who was ministering to the grief-stricken was interviewed tonight. It clearly had been traumatic for him. What especially struck me was that he related that the phone of one of the grieving mothers suddenly rang a reminder for her to take her deceased child to a boy scout meeting that night. Also prayers for the police and other first responders who also have been traumatized by being the first to see the carnage of this horrible and tragic event. Indeed, prayers for the whole grieving town.
[ 15. December 2012, 04:46: Message edited by: malik3000 ]
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Golden Key
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May all in any kind of trouble get the help they need.
May mental health care be easily available to anyone who needs it.
May people learn to spot symptoms when someone is about to go over the edge into violence, and find a safe way to intervene.
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Malin
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For Newtown
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Please pray for a member of my mother's church who had her disability benefits taken from her, she has a learning disability and had tried to do the forms herself, and has no money. My mum found out yesterday that she'd had no electricity or heat in her house for three weeks in Scotland in winter. My mum's taking her to the citizens advice next week to try to help her with an appeal so please pray it's successful.
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Nicodemia
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Chive, that's awful! I hope the lady has heat now, or is somewhere heated.
for the lady, the situation, and your Mum with her at the CAB
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snowgoose
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Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man? --Terry Pratchett
Save a Siamese!
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Mamacita
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Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
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Ethne Alba
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Praying for Chive's unfortunate person......and the many many others who are in this position right now.
Lord have Mercy
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malik3000
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Originally posted by Ethne Alba:
Praying for Chive's unfortunate person......and the many many others who are in this position right now.
Lord have Mercy
Amen!!
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jedijudy
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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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Niteowl
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Praying for all in need.
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"love all, trust few, do wrong to no one"
Wm. Shakespeare
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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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St. Gwladys
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New priest in charge was announced this morning - the general consensus of friends who know him is that he's a good egg - he describes himself on Facebook as a "Charismatic Evengelical", so hopefully will be right for our parish. All we're waiting for now is the Parsonage board to sort out any work that needs to be done on the vicarage so that he and his family can move in. ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Sir Kevin
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Friday night, watching the news, I cried my eyes out: I taught six and seven-year-olds that day...
I hope and pray that a tragedy like this will never happen again.
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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by Sir Kevin:
Friday night, watching the news, I cried my eyes out: I taught six and seven-year-olds that day...
I so hear that, Sir K. Faces of kids I have taught keep flashing at me.
And I keep thinking of infinite monkey, who mentioned she had a lockdown incident (relatively uneventful) at her school not too long ago.
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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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Mad Cat
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Praying for those broken hearted parents, siblings, grandparents, neighbours, teachers......
Can I ask for your prayers for Mr C, one of my pupils, 15 yrs old and stroppy as anything? We fell out in a big way on friday.
Also prayers for those who are lonely, including me
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Campbellite
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Lord, we could use a little sanity in this world right now. We are in short supply.
For the children and teachers in Newtown.
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Suffering for Jesus since 1966.
WTFWED?
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Kelly Alves
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Originally posted by Mad Cat:
Can I ask for your prayers for Mr C, one of my pupils, 15 yrs old and stroppy as anything? We fell out in a big way on friday.
Absolutley.
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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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malik3000
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God = love.
Otherwise, things are not just black or white.
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Telepath
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Minor illness. Praying thru, no list today sorry.
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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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Lamb Chopped
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We get the news on my son from the special ed people tomorrow. Basically terrified. Oh, and we've had four (count em, FOUR) deaths/dyings this week, with attendant funerals, and pastoral comfort of the all-night variety-and-we'll-help-you=arrange=things because of lack of English. Help.
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Er, this is what I've been up to (book).
Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down!
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Sir Kevin
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Prayed for all.
Zeke could use prayers: in spite of her recent MA, she cannot find a real job at a real high school. Perhaps with a good referral after long-term English-teaching gig filling in for a teacher on paternity leave employers will say she is experienced enough. Hope they don't keep discriminating against her on the basis of her age. I am urge her to try writing a book.
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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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Starbug
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May the Lord be with us all. Praying for everyone by name. O Lord, have mercy.
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daisymay
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reading praying
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Cara
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Praying for all, especially Newtown.
And especially for our faithful Telepath.
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Robert Armin
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Tomorrow I go to see a Clergy Advisor, to see if there is any possible work I could do within the CoE. I would appreciate prayers for this, as it's taken a lot of work and courage to even get this far. On the one hand I do still believe I am called to ministry (and I need a job!, on the other hand I know I haven't got the strength for anything obvious, like running a parish.
The other thing that will complicate matters is I want to be honest with him about the fact that I am gay. It has taken me a long time to come to terms with this; when I was ordained I honestly believed I was straight (I think I was asked about it in my selection conference, which was back in 1980), and it's only in the last 18 months I've come out to my family, and the world generally. Grief, I've been on the Ship for more than 10 years, and for most of that time I've been scared in case anyone discovered what I was! But this is who I am, and I want to go forward honestly. I am a gay man, loved and called by God - but how this works out in practice, especially in the Church, I have no idea.
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Earwig
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For Robert. You are indeed loved and cherished by God, and I hope and pray the CofE can cherish and honour your service as well.
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Mary LA
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Robert
Telepath
Praying through by name and request
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Sioni Sais
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Robert, Zeke, Telepath, Lamb Chopped & four families. For Newtown.
Eldest Son, J has an interview for teaching job tomorrow at 3pm GMT. It really does fit his CV but he's only feeling his way back into teaching after a difficult year or two. Prayers please. Oh, and it's at the school he attended not a mile from us!
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malik3000
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for each by name and need. Lord hear our prayers
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for all
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Life is a comedy to those who think & a tragedy to those who feel.-Horace Walpole
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Niteowl
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Reading and praying
Telepath
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"love all, trust few, do wrong to no one"
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Robert Armin:
I am a gay man, loved and called by God
Yes, and we are all here for you. Go with a clear conscience and a good heart. And may your sincerity open doors for you.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Reading through and praying individually.
Also prayers for those involved in a car crash I passed early today on my way into town. Four cars, one totalled and in pieces over a 40 metre length. No details, but numerous emergency services, followed by corroners car indicate an unhappy outcome.
For all those mourning tonight.
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Malin
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Praying
For all who mourn and all who fear.
For Lamb Chopped and son ((()))
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