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Thread: Prayers of the Faithful 2013
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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quote:
Originally posted by comet:
an Alaska State Trooper rescue helicopter picked up a stranded snowmachiner at a remote lake here last night. the helicopter never made it back to the local EMS. it was nasty, stormy spring weather, so the chance of icing was quite high. they found it today, down with all three on board dead.
it's now beginning to look like I knew two if not all three on board, one of them quite well. names are not officially released yet, so I'm sitting here holding my breath. as is the rest of town, really.
don't know what to pray for, exactly. just... all of it.
Identities confirmed, as suspected.
please pray for the repose of Carl, Tage, and Mel. also for families of all three, and the organizations of the men: Alaska State Troopers and the Talkeetna Bachelor Society.
especially for Tage's wife and young children; and for Carl's adult son who is severely mentally ill, currently missing and living on the streets (somewhere), and when he is found will not handle this well.
and maybe a tiny one for me as I'm now immersed in press management hell at a time when I'm not at my strongest. Carl was a strange, quirky guy - but he was my friend.
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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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Welease Woderwick
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Holding us all in the living, loving Light.
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duchess
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ex-bf called his daughter and let her know that he moved out of state because he loves someone there, that this person has a daughter "HER AGE WHICH KILLS HER" so she JUST found out his sneaking out of the condo with me moving and the fact he is out of state. She did not take this well. She called me and cried hard, barely talking, sobbing. I am having to try not to trash talk about him but just help her focus on getting through this. Can you pray for her? It was a tough call but my friend that was right there told me "I said all the right things" so I praise God for that. I wish she was close enough for me to hug but I told her to go love on her mom and her mom's boyfriend. I hope God is using this to make a fat lump of coal (me) into a diamond. This has been hard for me as I want to drop kick him badly to the other side of the world, but I try to be gracious for this dear one. <insert kicking butt image of her dad here>>
[edited to fix post and insert candle here as I love this little girl with my whole heart and always will.]
[ 02. April 2013, 03:59: Message edited by: duchess ]
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Kelly Alves
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Duch, Duch Duch. Maybe God is using this to help your friends remember to remind you of what a diamond you already are. Evidence-- the love you have given and are giving that kid. ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
[ 02. April 2013, 03:59: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]
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Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
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Mamacita
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Can't say it any better than that.
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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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Starbug
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Praying for all by name.
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Amos
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Praying through for all.
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Mary LA
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Praying through by name and need
For Duchess and the bf's distraught daughter
For the repose of the souls of Carl, Tage, and Mel. Comfort in their grief for families of all three, especially for Tage's wife and young children; and for Carl's adult son. We ask Your mercy on the traumatised community in Alaska and that You might strengthen and comfort Comet at this time.
Personal gratitude for the abundant blessings received this Easter
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Gextvedde
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My brothers, Dad & me are trying to deal with my Mums dementia but somehow have got into an unrelated, unexpected row about overblown trivia which looks like it could turn bitter. I'd be grateful if people could pray for us to help deal with each other with more understanding. On a selfish note pleae pray for me to know what the right thing to do/say is, the guts to do it, oh and for patience. Lots of it.
Reading & praying through this board
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"We must learn to see that our temperament is a gift of God, a talent with which we must trade until he comes" Thomas Merton
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Japes
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CuppaT
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My son, 8, is in hospital for a week or so while they change his medications for Tourette Syndrome, and help him work through some severe anger issues. He has been very violent and threatening with knives. I ask your prayers for him and our family.
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Stand at the brink of the abyss of despair, and when you see that you cannot bear it any longer, draw back a little and have a cup of tea.
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Margaret
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Lord, please come and help all of us who need you now.
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Raptor Eye
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For all.
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Jack the Lass
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(((duchess))) you rock.
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Telepath
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For the repose of Carl, Tage, and Mel, and for the families of all three, especially for Tage's wife and young children, and for Carl's adult son. For the Alaska State Troopers and the Talkeetna Bachelor society.
For (((((comet))))) herself.
For duchess' ex-BF's daughter, and for duchess to know how to navigate the daughter's need for help with the need for diplomacy and compassion.
For duchess herself. Duchess, you have been wronged.
For peace among the Gextveddes, and guidance and wisdom for Gextvedde himself. For Mother Gextvedde.
For healing for little cuppa t.
For K. whose house was burgled and the culprit identified using DNA evidence (via a half-drunk bottle of wine that the burglar swigged from), but the burglar will not be prosecuted despite irrefutable evidence because, he says, he was invited in. And K. can't prove the burglar wasn't invited in, since he was out of town on an extended work trip lasting several weeks, and how can you possibly know what goes on in your house when no-one's there? Psychic phenomena and all sorts.
So, I didn't want to get too tedious about praying away the Finance Monster, and now I have spent all of my money.
Not being my own worst enemy is something I constantly have to deal with, it seems.
Or not. I may have to start looking for work this month. One of the places I was planning to apply to has added to its staff a person who tried to do me serious harm a number of years ago - on a scale of lawbreaking and life-ruining, just to be clear, I'm not talking about a mere personality clash. One way or another I really would prefer that our paths not have to cross again and that this person doesn't restrict my career options any more than they already have - not by their hand nor mouth nor eye, and not by my own justified or unjustified fear.
Actually, it would be nice if I just didn't have to look for work because my funding had come through.
Speaking of funding, I would really appreciate funding for a special project on which I have hung my entire self-worth as a person. Because all that stuff about humans having intrinsic worth - in the face of this project, that's just for the birds. I can be a worthwhile person who's finally proved their worthfulness by mere association with this project, or I can be a dreary, average piece of human flotsam and jetsam along with the rest of the unwashed masses who haven't been part of this project.
Pride, you say? I don't think so. That's not part of my personal brand.
For two private ambitions.
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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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Starbug
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Praying for all by name.
Please pray for N and Mrs N, as they make a big decision about their futures, which includes N's employment.
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Sir Kevin
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I am concerned that I might have had a minor stroke: one of my eight-year-olds yesterday said my mouth looked a bit crooked; she was really concerned and so was my wife. I hope not as I am paying cash for doctors and medicine for at least the next ninety days...
God knows that this country's health care system is really unfair and for profit...
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Mary LA
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(Sir Kevin)
Praying through for each by name
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daisymay
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reading praying
and B is now on the train with her husband and children - she's much better, so God please keep her and the children well and enjoy what they will do.
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Ethne Alba
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Got a small thing on tomorrow.....would value prayers that it goes well.
thanks
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Grammatica
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Praying through for all.
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Robert Armin
All licens'd fool
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for all.
With a special for LC - I know how hideous it is when your boss is out to get you -
and a special for Cuppa. Your heart must be breaking over all of this.
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Telepath
Ship's Steamer Trunk
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For Starbug's N and Mrs N.
For Sir Kevin's health and medical needs to be met.
For Lamb Chopped, for guidance, protection and an employment lawyer.
For daisymay's B et al
For Ethne Alba.
For Cuppa and her son.
For T.
Usual requests for continued employment and slightly less bad habits for me kthx
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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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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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Starbug
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Praying for all by name.
After months of what I can only describe as persecution from our managment, N has agreed a financial settlement with them and is now on 'gardening leave' for the period of his notice. He is being referred for ill-health retirement in the long term. Thanks so much to everyone who prayed for him over the past months.
(((Lamb Chopped))) If you're in a trade union, please talk to them ASAP.
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daisymay
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My son and his wife, B, now have their baby, A, ill and are going to the doctor - in Edinburgh now!
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Wet Kipper
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Please pray for family member (H) and her partner (N)
They recently suspected that N's skin cancer was back after succesfully removing/fighting it a few years ago. Tests earlier this week confirmed the return, and he's having an operation today to try and remove the melanoma, which will probably also require a skin graft due it being the second time round on the same area of the body.
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Mary LA
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Praying through by name
Please pray for my friend L whose son A died of a heroin overdose
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Nanny Ogg
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Please pray that I hear something positive about a place to live this afternoon.
The main sticking point is that there are 2 bedrooms which means that I'll have to pay the 14% housing benefit will not cover. As there are no 1 bed homes available I'd be happy to do that.
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Japes
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For Nanny Ogg's housing situation.
For all who have asked our prayers, and all who dare not ask, but who need our prayers.
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Adrienne
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Please can I ask for prayer for my Mum who is very confused and irrational today. We will see the doctor this afternoon. She will be more upset and feel betrayed by me if she has to go to hospital - but this is beyond what I know how to deal with.
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Sir Kevin
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Kids said nothing yesterday, so I may be alright. Dr. H, my osteopath, returns from holiday on Monday: I'll likely take at least part of the day off and expect to see him. I won't be teaching that day as I am a set carpenter for the local opera and will be working well into the night on Sunday!
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Pine Marten
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for Nanny Ogg's housing situation
for Adrienne's mum
that Sir Kevin be alright
and please for my daughter C and her husband (another C), who are having difficulties, partly financial, partly more private.
Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer.
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Adrienne
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Thank you for your prayers - Mum's problem looks to be a bad reaction to some new medication, now changed. She was reassured by being able to answer all the doc's questions about dates, prime ministers etc, and is feeling a lot more like herself. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Nanny Ogg
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No one called me back this afternoon. Feel very depressed.
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ArachnidinElmet
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Reading through and praying by name
Especially for fortitude in the face of medical problems, bereavement and bullying of all kinds.
Praying hard for you (((Nanny Ogg))), stay strong.
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Sergius-Melli
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Hi guys and gals,
Can you please keep me in your prayers. I was laid off today with immediate effect, with a really naff severance deal (but then that's my own fault for signing the contract!) and so am back to looking for a job.
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Robert Armin
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for Sergius-Melli - that sounds horrible.
for all.
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Lamb Chopped
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There is no legal recourse--he's gotten smarter since the last time and I can't prove shit. And couldn't afford a lawyer if I had a case. And there ain't no legal aid for the likes of me around here.
God help me, I am hating my brother in my heart. And Mr Lamb has chosen this time to have man-flu ( you know, the pity-me kind? And I want all your attention even though I'm basically worried well, not ill) I'm hating everybody right now.
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Raptor Eye
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Dear Lord, may your love and peace prevail in the lives of all who have posted here, and smother all evil. Amen.
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Nanny Ogg
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I never heard anything this afternoon and I've been feeling very low because of it.
Please pray for my friend J who heard he didn't get the job he'd been hoping for. It's been 4 weeks since he had his interview for them to make the decision. He's not very happy and I'm worried he'll go back to drinking.
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