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Thread: Prayers of the Faithful 2013
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Morlader
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Reading and ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) -ing.
I've been holding off asking for myself, but the time has come to ask now. I've just started my fourth year of chemo (and major and minor surgery) and it's not going well. I was thinking "what's so different this time?" then I realised - I haven't called on the pray-ers on the ship.
So, for Morladres and me, of your mercy ... Thanks so much.
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Heavenly Anarchist
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and especially for you, Morlander, as you go through this difficult time
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Dog Activity Monitor
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Raptor Eye
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O Lord, we kneel before you and yield to your excellency. Please send your Holy Spirit with the peace, strength and love we need to see us through, day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, to your glory. Amen.
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Be still, and know that I am God! Psalm 46.10
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Malin
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Praying for peace in all storms and knowing we are not alone. Ever.
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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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Telepath
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For Welease Woderwick's nephew, for guidance.
For jedijudy's friends, for reconciliation.
For Gussie's son to find a great job.
For a better day for Robert Armin.
For Morlader, for healing.
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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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Thanks everybody for praying for us. I don't hear till next Friday when my surgery's to be, but have taken pre-emptive safety steps at work, as my boss is on the warpath again (it's annual review lead-up time, and I darkly suspect he's creating a paper trail to justify his review in advance). I am being scrutinized under a microscope, and panicking.
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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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Meg the Red
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For all, especially Lamb Chopped and Morlader. Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayers.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Amen.
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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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Og: Thread Killer
Ship's token CN Mennonite
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Came home yesterday at 6, opened the door (with my keys) and had a great evening with the daughter and wife.
Woke up this morning, went to go do laundry and..............my keys are missing. Including a key to work.
I spent 9 hours fretting and trying to find them including all the usual tracing of steps and praying and sundry flashlight checks of every nook and cranny.
Still can't find them.
All the good refreshing times from last night gone, for all 3 of us.
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I wish I was seeking justice loving mercy and walking humbly but... "Cease to lament for that thou canst not help, And study help for that which thou lament'st."
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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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Tree Bee
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For healing
For lost keys to be found
For a private intention that it would help me to talk more about, but am not being allowed to.
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"Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple."
— Woody Guthrie
http://saysaysay54.wordpress.com
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Yam-pk
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For wisdom and discernment.
My mother has a long-term disability and I have privilege (or not) as being the sole wager earner in the household and have been for the last few years (mum does get various benefits on top of which I pay board and lodgings).
To make things more complicated, I have just got engaged, which is lovely, however, my mum feels strongly that we should continue living in the family home even after we're married (divided off into a separate living area but still!)
My fiance, however much she loves my mum, wants to live somewhere close but not in the same house!
On top of all of this, mum is currently due to start studying part-time and was relying on my board money to help pay her tuition fees.
as the above suggests, I feel completely trapped and helpless. Any prayers would be great appreciated ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif) ![[Cool]](cool.gif) ![[brick wall]](graemlins/brick_wall.gif)
[ 27. January 2013, 13:21: Message edited by: Yam-pk ]
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Mad Cat
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Reading and praying
I am continuing to pray for the intention so private I can't really tell what it is
And a prayer for all parents of people with mental health issues, who often must feel helpless and confounded
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Weird and sweary.
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Spiffy
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Prayers desperately needed, I've been appointed Senior Warden of my parish.
(yes, that's mostly tongue in cheek.)
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Looking for a simple solution to all life's problems? We are proud to present obstinate denial. Accept no substitute. Accept nothing.
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Telepath
Ship's Steamer Trunk
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For Lamb Chopped, for healing and safe employment.
For the return of Og's keys.
For Tree Bee and the private intention.
For those killed in the Brazilian nightclub fire, and for their families.
For Yam-pk, his fiance, and his mother, for wisdom to resolve all this.
For Mad Cat's private intention.
For Spiffy, during this difficult and tragic time. Lord, have mercy.
For continued employment and swift task completion for me. Also for my broadband not to crap out on me over these next few days, like it's been doing today.
For the Telemum.
For A. to find suitable employment.
For T., for healing.
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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
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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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.
I have a potentially difficult meeting this morning. I will be facing my boss across the table, as she is on the management side of negotiations and I'm on the union side. Not looking forward to it.
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“Oh the pointing again. They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them?” ― The Day of the Doctor
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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quote:
Originally posted by Starbug:
Praying for all by name.
I have a potentially difficult meeting this morning. I will be facing my boss across the table, as she is on the management side of negotiations and I'm on the union side. Not looking forward to it.
As an ex-shop steward, among many other union roles I was constantly facing my boss and her bosses across the table. I was very careful to separate the role of an underling from that of a shop steward (where I frequently had to read the riot act to various management types). After a few times they got to know the difference, but they were still terrified when I went to their offices unannounced. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
Prayers for you. You should get used to it. They shouldn't. ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif)
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Even more so than I was before
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Heavenly Anarchist
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Yes, I was once a shop steward and can empathise with the difficulties. I was once told via the unit sister that my nurse manager didn't approve as she didn't think junior staff should be undertaking staff negotiations that would affect senior staff ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif) I suggested that perhaps she became a shop steward then! On the whole nurse managers were helpful though as much of our union work was on professional issues.
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Dog Activity Monitor
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Robert Armin
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Saturday was a difficult day, and I'm left with a difficult problem involving at least one or two, but maybe a whole group, of people. I can ignore it and just walk away. That is my instinctive reaction to problems, and it would make my life easier in the short term. Wisdom (and courage) are needed to do the right thing.
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Keeping fit was an obsession with Fr Moity .... He did chin ups in the vestry, calisthenics in the pulpit, and had developed a series of Tai-Chi exercises to correspond with ritual movements of the Mass. The Antipope Robert Rankin
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ArachnidinElmet
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Reading through and praying by name
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'If a pleasant, straight-forward life is not possible then one must try to wriggle through by subtle manoeuvres' - Kafka
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Mary LA
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Praying through by name
For all those facing unemployment or struggling to get a job
For all those living with depression
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“I often wonder if we were all characters in one of God's dreams.”
― Muriel Spark
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Kitten
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Please pray for the church I attend as we have a meeting tonight where some difficult decisions will need to be made
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Maius intra qua extra
Never accept a ride from a stranger, unless they are in a big blue box
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agrgurich
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for us
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Life is a comedy to those who think & a tragedy to those who feel.-Horace Walpole
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Jengie jon
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This is relatively small but I my parents stubborness is getting to me.
Mum and Dad are both 84 and have colds. Mum's has gone on for over a week and seems to have settled on her chest. She has had bronchitus in the past. I am not really happy with Dad driving Mum to the doctors given that he too is ill (Mum does not drive). I have therefore asked Dad to ask for a home visit for mum just to check there is nothing to be concerned about.
Dad is not doing so at present. This is part of a pattern, there are other areas in his and mum's life that he could be helped with, if he would just ring up and say that he was there.
So main one is that Dad will actually get up the nerve to phone the surgery and ask. Second is for healing for them. Third wisdom for my sister and I in dealing with my parents.
Jengie
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"To violate a persons ability to distinguish fact from fantasy is the epistemological equivalent of rape." Noretta Koertge
Back to my blog
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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reading praying
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Jack the Lass
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Jengie and parents.
for all.
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"My body is a temple - it's big and doesn't move." (Jo Brand)
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Telepath
Ship's Steamer Trunk
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For a successful meeting for Starbug.
For wisdom and conflict resolution for Robert Armin.
For wisdom at Kitten's church.
For healing for Mummie Jon and Daddie Jon, and discernment in asking for help. For wisdom for Jengie.
For continued employment, travelling mercies, and a successful week ahead for me (meeting again on Thursday, still haven't had my review... the wangst lingers on)
For the Telemum.
Ruddy Finance Monster.
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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
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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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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Thank you so much for praying about the meeting. As it turned out, I didn't have to speak as our branch secretary was so angry that he did all the talking! My boss has done something wrong but didn't understand why she should have to answer for her actions. Both the head of HR and the chief exec promised to visit her for 'a chat' after the meeting, to help her understand.
Praying for all by name.
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“Oh the pointing again. They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them?” ― The Day of the Doctor
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QLib
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Tradition is the handing down of the flame, not the worship of the ashes Gustav Mahler.
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The Intrepid Mrs S
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Please pray for healing for M, adult son of two church friends and living in France with his wife. They are distraught at his medical condition - diagnosed through unbearable headaches - and have asked us to pray for a miracle.
And so to God, who can do immeasurably more than we can ask or imagine ...
..we offer our thanks and prayers.
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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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Heavenly Anarchist
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I'm struggling a bit with anxiety at the moment ( I have bipolar disorder which is well controlled by lifestyle management) and this has put me a little behind on my work. I have stacks of essays to mark, which won't be a problem when I put my mind to it, but when anxious I tend to prevaricate and delay. I am going to mark the first lot today so please may I have some prayers for my focus on this, and tomorrow when I continue. I really have nothing to be anxious about but it is something I need to work on.
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Dog Activity Monitor
My shop
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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My son's 2 female children are ill - An (5) and Ar (1), and they both have been coughing and sick, and still are feeling very ill - temperatures wrong.
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Kasra
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Praying thru.
Would welcome prayer that I can conquer the TO DO list... it gets longer as time gets shorter. I fear that the deadline is soon going to make that whooshing sound as it flies by... (per Heavenly Anarchist's sig!)
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[ 29. January 2013, 17:23: Message edited by: Kasra ]
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Chamois
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A relative is in a difficult situation at work, partly of her own making. Please pray for wisdom, patience and self-control for all involved.
Please also pray for my neighbour J, a very troubled person.
Thank you.
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The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases
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Telepath
Ship's Steamer Trunk
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Mrs S's M, for healing.
For Heavenly Anarchist.
For daisymay's An and Ar, for healing (I imagine they look like Thing One and Thing Two from Cat in the Hat)
For Starbug's boss... The only thing more threatening than A Chat is An Informal Chat...
For Kasra's deadline.
For Chamois' relative at work, and neighbour J.
Boss put in a bid on Sunday, having scraped up the change for our institution's share of the funding (thanks be). Bid is slightly late for the deadline, hoping that won't matter. Also, his wife and 3 small kiddies are all sick, I imagine he'd like them healed...
And I need to finish a task tomorrow....
For a private goal of mine.
For banishment of the Finance Monster.
For the Telemum who is having another ultrasound tomorrow.
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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
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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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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Mrs Shrew
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Praying for all by name
I have an interview today for my job, but permanent instead of fixed term. I could really use calm and thinking clearly as interviews tend to fluster me.
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"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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Starbug
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Praying for all by name.
I had my test results yesterday, which indicated some inflammation so I'm going to be referred to hospital for a colonoscopy.
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“Oh the pointing again. They're screwdrivers! What are you going to do? Assemble a cabinet at them?” ― The Day of the Doctor
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Mad Cat
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Please pray for L, recovering from brain surgery, and for her partner C, who is watching over her.
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Weird and sweary.
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M.
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I would greatly appreciate prayer for wisdom and grace on Friday - thanks, all.
M.
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