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comet
Snowball in Hell
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I need fervent prayers for the next month or so. This is potentially for a very HAPPY thing.
As many know, I've been living in my "canvas palace" for going on a year, this time around (we did it before, 6 years ago, for about 9 months). It's a tent. it's a nice tent, and we're mostly comfortable. (understand, it's a 12x12x8 ft tent that has better insulation than even arctic-grade yurts. it's like a little house. we're not suffering in a little 2 man dome jobby) but it's not sustainable for long term for two reasons: namely, heat and bears. It is well insulated for a tent, but it still doesn't hold the heat as nicely as a hard shell would. Therefore, my heating bills this last winter have been astronomical.
Plus, I live in perhaps the second beariest area in the beariest state of the US. We have grizzlies all over the place, as well as a small but scrappy black bear population. We coexist pretty darn well, here, and I know my stuff. I have not yet had a curious bear, but it's always on my mind. A hard shell with a real door that can keep a bear out would be AWFULLY NICE.
Also, in the not-necessary-but-oh-please category, my son and I really need separate sleeping spaces, I need a lot more bookshelf space, and in the winter we have to keep the window flaps closed so it's kind of dark and dreary in here.
enter two things - the high school shop class has built a very small "house" (essentially, it's just the box) that they are about to sell by sealed bid for the cost of materials as a minimum bid. this means all up to code, well insulated, and zero labor costs.
second thing - when by aunt died she left me some money. I didn't know she had any money. surprise! and the amount she left should just cover the cost of the mini house plus getting it moved and building a foundation. assuming no one outbids me.
We originally heard that we were the only ones interested. woohoo! but I found out today that two other people (at least) are preparing bids.
With a sealed bid, you get the minimum amount and then submit a bid that is hopefully higher than the other bids. you don't know what they are.
If I don't get the house, the money I have could pay to begin a small house of my own, but it would probably be a year or two to be able to move in. I can live with that. but I really want to get this place! it's such a perfect solution! and I would have a fully paid-for home.
They haven't opened the bid yet, but they will in the next few weeks. If everyone could say a little prayer for me to be the highest bidder - light candles, cross appendages, dance naked around a fire, whatever your "thing" is, I would so appreciate it!
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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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saysay
Ship's Praying Mantis
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I could use prayers that some of this general anxiety I'm suffering would go away.
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Niteowl
Hopeless Insomniac
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Thank you so much for the prayers. I have been released from hospital and am home. Please keep praying as I am still very ill and I am once again care taker for my mother. It's going to be a very interesting time...
Praying for all in need.
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"love all, trust few, do wrong to no one"
Wm. Shakespeare
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Nicolemr
Shipmate
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Prayers for all.
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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?
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What part of Matt. 7:1 don't you understand?
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Praying
Dancing naked on behalf of comet
[ETA too hot for a fire here]
[ 09. May 2014, 01:39: Message edited by: jedijudy ]
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Leaf
Shipmate
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Hoping it comes together, comet.
<tries making fire out of prayer candles>
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Piglet
Islander
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for all in need, especially R., Robert Armin's friends, Balaam's mum, Niteowl's recovery and Comet's potential wee house.
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
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Starbug
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Lord, in Your mercy, hear our prayers.
for Comet's little house. May the other bids be small and inadequate.
I would appreciate prayers,please, about a tricky work situation. I have been refused facility time to attend our union's national conference. To meet the union's proportionality rules, most of our delegates must be women - unfortunately, I'm the only female activist in our branch who's fully trained in her role and willing to attend. (This is something we're working to address for the future.)
My boss is citing an important project as the reason why I can't go - the same project that he told me last week was low priority and could easily be worked around other jobs. The message HR is being given by my managers is not the same one I've been getting.
Advice from our regional office is to raise a formal grievance, but my branch secretary and I don't want to do that, as it would sour our working relationship. I could take annual leave, but it sets a precedent for future delegates and my manager is potentially breaking our facilities agreement by refusing.
Please pray that this will be resolved amicably - or at least with as little bloodshed as possible. Thank you.
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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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Sir Kevin
Ship's Gaffer
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Please pray for Z: she has taken the day off today for a very important interview for a teaching job this afternoon.
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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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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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My computer is not allowing me now !
I am outside paying a place to get on a computer !
[ 09. May 2014, 17:49: Message edited by: daisymay ]
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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I survived the biopsy; now to wait for the results. Please keep praying for me.
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Mad Cat
Shipmate
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Reading and praying.
We surfed the waves this week, 'til last period today with tired kids and tired teacher. I have to get the able kids moved into a more appropriate set. Managing a larger class means I don't hve time to sit down with my wee souls and coach them on their reading skills. The able kids are aghast and the silly comments made by some of my more immature padawans, eg. "We're supposed to read on our own, hur hur (as if anyone would do that!)"
Please pray that this all happens relatively smoothly.
Please pray in the meantime for the able kids not to lose hope, and for my wee souls to make progress.
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ArachnidinElmet
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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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Gee D
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Prayers continue Pete C, and for Mss M as well as for the mother and sister of D.
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Telepath
Ship's Steamer Trunk
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For Niteowl, for healing. For strength to care for Mother Niteowl.
For R., for healing. For upholding for his family and his sisters and brother and mother, and in-laws.
For Ye Olde Motherboarde’s B, for healing.
For the family and friends of A.
For Mad Cat and her class.
For Mother Alba to be able to get out of her house.
For healing for Lamb Chopped, and for employment and money for both Lamb and Goddaughter Chopped.
For the family of C, his sister and his mother.
For Miss M, for healing.
For healing and employment for piglet’s J.
For healing for PeteC.
For resolution for Robert Armin’s G and B.
For healing and safety for balaam’s mother.
For comet to get the house.
For conflict resolution for Starbug.
For Z to get that job.
For healing for daisymay’s computer.
For me to complete my work project in plenty of time and with aplomb, in a smooth ballet of efficiency, free of anxiety and overwork.
For the Telemum.
For seven families at risk of eviction.
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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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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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I do read this thread but don't usually post on it.
Prayers for PeteC and Miss M
Mad Cat - it sounds as if you've got a combination class of what we used to call the "weak but willing" with the behaviour issues mixed in. It might be worth trying to find out what the behaviour is masking. You may be looking at a lot of undiagnosed dyslexia in there for example - verbally bright, but poor on paper - and challenging behaviour is a good way to cover up, plus putting down anyone who looks as if they may be weaker than you to bolster their battered self-esteem. But 24 is too big a class to deal with like that.
prayers too for those with battered self-esteem, recognised and unrecognised learning difficulties
That comet gets her house
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Ethne Alba
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Comet
Update: Alba Mother is released and now happily terrorising the neighbourhood!
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Graven Image
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Reading though and praying. ![[Axe murder]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif) That God's Holy love will pour down upon each person's needs.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Holding us all in the living, loving Light.
R had dialysis yesterday and they plan at least two more sessions - from what Himself told me R is quite a sick man still.
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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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Piglet
Islander
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for all in need: for healing for R., Miss M. and J., for Mother Alba, and for a good outcome of Pete's biopsy; and for those with work-related worries.
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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Leaf
Shipmate
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PeteC - hope everything goes well. Keeping you in prayer.
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Robert Armin
All licens'd fool
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for all,
with a special for Comet's house.
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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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busyknitter
Shipmate
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Posting a prayer request for Ken who is very ill in hospital. He hasn't been able to post on the Ship for a couple of weeks, because the wifi doesn't work properly on his ward. He would very much appreciate your prayers for healing, relief from symptoms and the possibility of getting out of hospital in a few days.
[He's my brother in case folks aren't aware.]
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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He's got them from me, BK
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Even more so than I was before
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Jack the Lass
Ship's airhead
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And from me too
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"My body is a temple - it's big and doesn't move." (Jo Brand)
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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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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Prayers for my niece who is hospital with a partially collapsed lung and pneumonia,
Prayers also for a friend of mine in India who is seriously ill.
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Even more so than I was before
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JoannaP
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Ken
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"Freedom for the pike is death for the minnow." R. H. Tawney (quoted by Isaiah Berlin)
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." Benjamin Franklin
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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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ken
(I did know he was in hospital, but hadn't posted prayers because he hadn't, and at the time he was posting)
And remembering all others who post here.
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Ann
Curious
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Ken
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Qoheleth.
Semi-Sagacious One
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for all
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Sarasa
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Prayerd for all that need them.
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'I guess things didn't go so well tonight, but I'm trying. Lord, I'm trying.' Charlie (Harvey Keitel) in Mean Streets.
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Jenn.
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ken and others who need it
I seem to have sinusitis. This is a minor thing, compared to pretty much everything else here, but I'm in the middle of deadline alley with a couple of exams coming up. I'd appreciate prayers to get over this quickly so I can actually do some work! (also, this is a sign I am very run down and need a proper break - prayers I find one would be good too)
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Ags
Knocked up
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Continued prayers for Ken
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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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Piglet
Islander
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for all in need, especially Ken, Pete, Miss M., R., Jenn and J.
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I may not be on an island any more, but I'm still an islander.
alto n a soprano who can read music
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Nicolemr
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Prayers for all, esp. Ken and Comet.
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Holding us all in the loving, living Light.
R back in his own room yesterday but still some way to go.
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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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Robert Armin
All licens'd fool
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for Ken
for all in need.
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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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Sioni Sais
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Especially for ken
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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I would appreciate your prayers. I am in significant pain which has been keeping me awake. So, tired and hurting, and I really don't have time for this.
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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St Everild
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For Ken, MadCat, JediJudy, Telepath and all who have posted.
Lord, in your mercy...
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Abigail
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Praying for all needs mentioned here
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Mad Cat
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Prayers for Ken
Please pray for Michael, who is a recently bereaved long-term carer. for this change in his life.
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