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Thread: Prayers of the Faithful - 2016
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) reading praying
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Golden Key
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Originally posted by Golden Key:
Even mentioning this is probably TMI... but an alligator took a two-year-old boy at a Disney resort in Orlando, Tuesday night. Parents tried to rescue him, but couldn't. Major search is ongoing.
Thx.
The body of the child, Lane Graves, has been found.
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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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Piglet
Islander
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Poor little soul - may he rest in peace.
Prayers ascending for his family and for all others in need.
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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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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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ElaineC
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Originally posted by ElaineC:
Prayers would be appreciated for my MiL. She has had a fall in her care home and broken her hip. As she is 92 the outlook isn't good.
She is safely through the hip replacement operation but we are not out of the woods yet. She also has dementia which I guess will hamper recovery.
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Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing. John Erskine
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Wesley J
Silly Shipmate
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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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Mad Cat
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Reading and praying
Lord, the French police have enough on their plate without a bunch of grown men drinking too much and essentially playing chase around various cities. Perspective??
Praying for D, a troubled boy, who acts out his needs and desperation in socially inappropriate ways
Continued prayers for C and his work/life balance. He deserves life in its fullness, and it's here for him when he stops trying to be so amazing.
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Weird and sweary.
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Penny S
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Prayers for Robert (Robbie) Gibson who is missing in South London. An activist deeply involved in a campaign to save Lambeth libraries, with many friends, he left his home on Monday afternoon, telling his wife he was going for a walk in Dulwich Park, popped into a nearby Co-op and then vanished. He may have been seen near East Croydon station shortly afterwards, where his phone was last used - it's now off.
Prayers for his family as well.
Local paper story
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Wesley J
Silly Shipmate
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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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Piglet
Islander
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Originally posted by Sipech:
Prayers for Labour MP, Jo Cox, and her family after she was stabbed and shot at lunchtime today.
What a frightful thing to happen.
RIP.
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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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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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reading praying
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saysay
Ship's Praying Mantis
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"It's been a long day without you, my friend
I'll tell you all about it when I see you again"
"'Oh sweet baby purple Jesus' - that's a direct quote from a 9 year old - shoutout to purple Jesus."
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Arabella Purity Winterbottom
Trumpeting hope
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Its my mum's birthday today, the first since she died. Feeling very sad.
Not helped by world events.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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Oh, I can imagine. Much love, Arabella.
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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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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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Landlubber
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For all in any need, let us pray to the Lord
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They that go down to the sea in ships … reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Please hold in the Light, my youngest great-nephew (Deuce2's 1st grandson) who is undergoing an operation for pyloric stenosis this afternoon. He is not even one month old and born prematurely at 8 months. In most other respects, Oliver is growing like a weed.
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Even more so than I was before
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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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reading praying
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Penny S
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For Robbie Gibson, his wife and young son, again, and all the friends who will be joining search parties tomorrow.
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Lothlorien
Ship's Grandma
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Originally posted by Arabella Purity Winterbottom:
Its my mum's birthday today, the first since she died. Feeling very sad.
Not helped by world events.
Sending hugs your way, Arabella. We had a family anniversary this week too, but twelve years down the track.
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Buy a bale. Help our Aussie rural communities and farmers. Another great cause needing support The High Country Patrol.
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Piglet
Islander
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{{{APW}}}
Prayers also ascending for Uncle Pete's Oliver and Penny's Robbie and family.
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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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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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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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Wesley J
Silly Shipmate
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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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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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reading praying and tomorrow I will be in St John Hyde Park and i always have to tidy up the stuff at the end.
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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Jasmine, little cat with a big heart.
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Telepath
Ship's Steamer Trunk
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For daisymay, for healing, and for a fairer distribution of childcare labour.
For a good loving home for Lucia’s cat.
For Yamato, his parents, and especially his sister.
For Oscar’s Z, for healing, and for peace of mind for his family.
For healing and upholding for Dad jon and Mum jon.
For Mad Cat’s C, for his work/life balance, for life in its fullness, to know that he is enough, that he doesn’t need to amaze everyone, that he can’t amaze everyone. For light in the dark for him, and healing. For the healing of Mad Cat’s soul also. For some singing men to appear over the horizon for reasons that are not entirely clear to me. For D.
For those in peril on the sea, then and now.
For the soul of piglet’s F., and for comfort for her husband R.
For Lothlorien’s N, for safety and good care. For healing for her granddaughter.
For Erroneous Monk’s E and baby L, for healing. Also for healing for P.
For S.
For Sir Kevin, for healing. And Zeke.
For continued healing for jedijudy’s J. For healing for D also.
For healing for the Dowager.
For saysay, her health, and her struggles with various administrative crap. And for It to stop. For a reprieve from pain in order to get some necessary stuff done. For her health to improve soon.
For Sarasa’s colleague’s son who lost a finger.
For all in less than ideal circumstances.
For Arachnid’s work thing.
For resolution of Golden Key’s bureaucratic problems, plus health and general upholding.
For Auntie Ruth, may she rest in peace and rise in glory. For all who mourn her to be comforted.
For Doone, for healing.
For all matters of bureaucracy to run smoothly and with minimal egg on faces.
For jedijudy’s D, for healing.
For Pigwidgeon’s F and P and G and M. For restoration of all they have lost. For J, for a safe journey home, and for upholding for N.
(((((Abigail)))))
For healing for duchess’ loved one.
For ElaineC’s MiL.
For the parents of Lane Graves. Lord, have mercy.
For peace in the cities and outside.
For the safe return of Robert Gibson. For upholding for his family.
For the family of Jo Cox. Lord, in Your mercy, hear our prayer.
(((((Arabella)))))
For Uncle Pete’s Oliver, for healing.
For bannination of the Finance-Monster who is biting today, kthx
For the Telemum.
For Cousin K facing the dissolution of a very short marriage. For V. For Cousin I, still feeling the repercussions of that little incident with clinical death over a year ago. Obviously he’s doing great for a man in his condition, but until a nagging issue is properly treated he can’t go back to work however much he might want and need to.
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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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Piglet
Islander
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for all in need.
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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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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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Abigail
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I didn't go to church this morning. I'm struggling to see the point any more. I desperately want to go on seeing the point and I don't know what to do.
I don't know whether to go on going to 'my' church and putting up with the loneliness, the irritation, the disappointment that I experience there, hoping that one day I will find that it feels ok again. Or to go to other churches - as I have been doing on and off all this year. Or to have a complete break from church.
The trouble with the first is that it doesn't seem to be getting any better and although I still feel a strong sense of loyalty to it and gratitude for all the help I've had there in the past I think things (and I) have changed so much that I can never really fit in there again.
The trouble with the second is that I find it exhausting going somewhere new and having to decide how much I want to say when people ask me if I'm new, visiting or whatever, especially as I find talking to people hard anyway.
And the third option… well, I’m afraid that if I stop going I'll get used to it and never go back.
I just want to belong. To fit in. To feel there's some sort of point to my life.
I don't pray much now – not in any meaningful way. I just can't seem to do it. (Though I'm quite good at one-word prayers like Sorry. Please. Help.)
None of this is new. I've been here before - well, nearly here, it's never been quite this bad. And I feel I've so little time left to sort myself out.
Thank you for reading.
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The older I get the less I know.
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Doone
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Oh Abigail, I can only say how precious you are, please hold on. Father God, let her feel enfolded by your love.
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Telepath
Ship's Steamer Trunk
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For Abigail to find her niche.
Abigail, as for one-word prayers: "And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words."
For K., for a successful job change.
(same for me pls)
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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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Piglet
Islander
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{{{Abigail}}}
Because all of my "changes of church" have been to do with music/choirs/D's job, all of which give me a perfectly logical answer to the (inferred) "why are you here" question, I'm not sure what advice I'd offer; as we're moving in a few weeks because of his job, I'll be doing it all over again.
I know I've said this before, but a cathedral/collegiate evensong (especially a week-day one) can be a very uplifting experience, and one where you need have hardly any contact with the congregation if you don't want to: you can just slip in, let the music and liturgy happen around you and slip out again, and nobody's going to ask (a) why you're there; or (b) whether you'd like to join the Altar Guild. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
Keeping you in my prayers.
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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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daisymay
St Elmo's Fire
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reading praying
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saysay
Ship's Praying Mantis
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"It's been a long day without you, my friend
I'll tell you all about it when I see you again"
"'Oh sweet baby purple Jesus' - that's a direct quote from a 9 year old - shoutout to purple Jesus."
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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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