Prayer Requests

[Changing4Best]

Please pray for my friends Freida and Tommy. He is in a nursing home and she is disabled. The home wants to kick him out because of his symptoms and he's getting a touch out of hand. He has Dementia, it is part of his overall health condition. (He has a very rare disease). She cannot take care of him, she is too weak and troubled. He is heavy and it involves lifting. They need a lot of understanding and a lot of love!

 

[Changing4Best]

I am reading "DRAW THE CIRCLE The 40 Day Prayer Challenge." I started a new prayer journal today too. Just asking everyone to pray that I stick with it and to "Amen" my prayers, even though they are too numerous to share here. Thanks.

 

[VioletButterfly]

It's a tradition around where I live for the local fire department, police department, and rescue vehicles to form a little parade of sorts to go through their local/respective subdivisions/communities to greet the children during the holiday season. Santa is onboard, sirens are blaring, and candy is thrown out to the kiddos. A great time for all, usually. Unfortunately, two brothers were running to meet the caravan and were hit by a car. They are both in the local children's hospital in pretty bad condition from what I last heard. I'm praying for their care and recovery. Hoping my frown will be turned upside down when they are released and return home before Christmas. Hoping and praying for this outcome. <3

 

[Changing4Best]

Praying!

 

[hithere]

I could use prayer. I thought I was doing well and just had a full stress cup from a friend's death-I got urgent calls and texts she wasn't breathing and so drove to her house, just as the coroner was taking her body away. I left a business presentation directly to her house. I got four business contracts all within 24 hours-normally these are spaced out among two months-not in one day, and it's the holidays, and then I had out of town guests for 5 days, too, that I was supposed to be spending time with doing holiday stuff. I did all the hostessing with a cheerful smile, and only ducked out occassionally to work on the computer-boy this prayer request is turning into a story! Sorry. I had a second death and a funeral to deal with yesterday. My friends death is still being investigated by the police, so her body is still in the morgue. On top of that another friend called and she and I agree the we had failed our friend who died. That we could have done more. AND I have a really. really bad cold. and the aches and pains of the cold really pull up trauma memories unfortunately. I wisih they didn't-but when my body aches and feels week, it 's like it is remembering crap and I keep telling myself it's just a cold. Anyway, I have not prepared one thing for Christmas-and now I realize I can't mail packages to my grandchildren now because they won't arrive in time for Christmas. On top of that-my family of origin is so hard to deal with (for me) I feel like I can't host dinner at my house Christmas Day, but If I don't do it, no one will, and then it's even more depressing knowing I have family members all within 5 miles of my house sitting in their homes alone on Christmas Day ignoring each other. Well, I should say ignoring me! haha! Because I did that one year-it was really more depressing than pretending they like me. I was doing well but I just got hit with the lowest of lows and I don't want to go down that slippery slope. So if anyone reads this, please say a prayer for me. I'm not sure how I'm going to get stuff done becaue I just want to climb in bed and nurse my cold and cry. I do have to go work for at least a few hours, but that is stressing me out because I haven't started any Christmas stuff. AT ALL. not even a to-do list! Thank you if you read this and prayed.

 

[VioletButterfly]

Praying for peace of mind and heart, strength to do what you can to situate your Christmas, and courage to get through the other stressors/loss you're also managing right now. Take care of "you" in all of this. Everyone else can tend to themselves. VB

Hack - If you are determined to gather family for dinner, maybe entertain meeting at a restaurant to share a meal? You could go early and set up a table with a festive table cloth and a little center piece. Maybe set out fun, inexpensive gifts in stockings or small gift bags from Walmart or the Dollar Tree? Just a thought. :)

 

[littleoc]

@hithere :hug: :hug: :hug: It was not a fault of yours. Take it easy this week. :hug:

 

[hithere]

thank you @littleoc and @VioletButterfly . I survived the holiday. I survived the business deals--big, big problems popped up with those and I made it through them with peace. thank you for praying. my friends body is now released from the police and a funeral will be in three weeks. somehow I'm feeling better about it. At the family Christmas dinner I was 30 minutes late for everthing and I actually got yelled at--"you, hithere, were the one that wanted to get together and we are here and so why are you so damn late? we are hungry!" so thank you for praying because I think it helped me deal with it all in a calm and peaceful manner

 

[Changing4Best]

Please pray for my friend Shane and his wife. They had a plumber come and hook up their new hot water heater and now they have hot water in their toilet, and cold water in their shower. Years from now I am sure he is going to laugh about this, but right now it is NOT funny! Meanwhile, the plumber is not answering their pleas for him to come back and fix the situation he has created!

 

[littleoc]

At least their butts will be warm.... praying for a fast solution, though. No one wants a cold shower in the middle of winter.

 

[VioletButterfly]

I'm sorry for imposing, but if you could please pray for me and maybe send some light my way, I'd really appreciate it. Lately, I've been feeling like I'm unraveling and drowning at the same time. I'm afraid. I've been praying and doing what I know to do to help myself, but it's not helping this time. I feel like I'm losing myself to the traumas and my will to keep fighting seems to have lost it's light. Thank you. VB

 

[littleoc]

Many hugs for you too, @VioletButterfly :hug: :hug: