Prayer & Praise
God of the seasons, God of the years, God of the eons, Alpha and Omega, before us and after us.
You promise and we wait: we wait with eager longing, we wait amid doubt and anxiety, we wait with patience thin and then doubt, and then we take life into our own hands.
We wait because you are the one and the only one.
We wait for your peace and your mercy, for your justice and your good rule.
Give us your spirit that we may wait obediently and with discernment, caringly and without passivity, trustingly and without cynicism, honestly and without utopianism.
Grant that our wait may he appropriate to your coming soon anal very soon, soon and not late, late but not too late.
We wait while the world groans in eager longing.
Walter Brueggemann. Prayers for a Privileged People (pp. 117-118). Kindle Edition.
Love this…”We wait while the world groans in eager longing.”
Update on Dannie– she is recovering well and has been transferred to a children’s hospital for rehabilitation. For now, it appears the immediate crisis is over, but now comes the long fight to regain function and to fight through physical therapy.
Thanks for the update, Linnea. Our prayers continue. So thankful she is making progress.
Remember in prayer
Erunner- mom has blocked arteries
Michael- upcoming surgery, tumor on his thyroid and spot on his lung, very ill,
Nene- dad passed away
Lennea- sister salvation and cancer
filbertz – nephew’s 16-year-old son who evidently accidentally shot himself new year’s eve, still in pain over drew’s death.
JD – young step nephew shot himself in the head the day after Christmas 2016.
Linnea – Dannie, hit a tree and is in the children’s hospital recovering, needs pt.
London-mom recovering fr spinal surgery and pulmonary embolism
Mk- mom has passed away
Erunner- wife RA and platelets out of control
Paige- 4 boys to be pleasing to God
Captain kevin – new direction for he and hit wife, work load, health
Dan -new direction for he and wife
E munro- sadness,concern and confusion over major changes at cccm and seemingly lack of concern on pastors part
UnCCed- still hurting over treatment from her church
Cc boise
Bart
Tam nal
J keller
S miller
Oh no
Alice
Believer in boise
Duel citizen
Sad news
Luisa- hurt by church
the least of these-hurt by church
Disillusioned-hurt by church
Dusty,
Thanks, you can remove the prayer request for my mom.
London she is doing better? I hope.
Dusty,
Your kindness in remembering me in your prayer list has brought me to tears.
Thank you.
praying with dusty again this morning – trusting in God’s mercies that so many need right now (maybe we all do – all the time, eh?)
praying that Michael is surrounded with his own phalanx of angels tasked with his care and protection… it seems that the devil is prowling and roaring against so many of God’s children right now… Jesus is Lord and coming King… praying we all be strengthened to see Him and stay the course through all that we go through today
i must thank and praise God today as i awoke with the forecast of an ice storm and i was alone here in the mountains… it was, all in all, a nice day and all my chores are done inside and out…
now, Lord, if You can keep our power on through the night, and see my daughter, who is putting in another 12 hour+ day at the hospital, home safely over the 40 miles of icy roads again… please and thank You
praying for all on dusty’s list tonight – God keep
Thank You Lord for this day, thank You for our lives, thank You for YOur Son! Where would we be without Him. We would be nothing. We would be nothing….Your Son! Your Son has given us life and more abundantly. Father we are but broken, ill and dirty. And yet You love us.
I ask that You see the needs here and heal the sick, the broken and the dirty, Let us be in Your image, loving, graceful and kind. Let us reflect the light that shines from You to others that they may see and hear and believe.
thanking God for prayers answered (and for pray-ers) this a.m. – it took her over two hours to go 40 miles on ice, but my daughter arrived home safe last night – many cars in ditches
reading and praying this list here this a.m.
(FWIW – years ago, the first reaction that i had when i was told that i needed a biopsy was anger and i was rather short with the medical people trying to attend to my health, i fear… perhaps the hostility that some here are receiving from ill loved ones is just their reaction to being so sick?)
p.s. – the jet plane (photo taken by one of my daughters) or rocking chair (all the babies in the family were rocked in that chair) in the corner of my comments here are dependent on which browser i am using when i stop by the Phxp…
God keep all close and comforted during these hard winter days
So glad your daughter made it home safely last night. and that you are safe.
Thank you for your prayers. My wife is off work for at least four months. She will be having knee surgery hopefully in February. Her knee is bad enough they would replace it but the risk of infection, etc. led to this decision which will hopefully buy a lot of time. Her platelets are improving.
A chest X-ray showed mom to have COPD. I’m not sure what to make of that so I’m not sure what our next step will be. Finding a 24/7 365 day a year help line for Alzheimer’s and Dementia has been a godsend. Please pray we make good decisions going forward.