A Prayer Request

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Glorious St Paul, who changed from a persecutor of Christianity to an ardent, zealous apostle, grant BradbuuryReader your patience. You suffered imprisonment, scourging, stoning and shipwreck. You endured persecutions of every kind so as to make our Savior Jesus Christ known over all the world, and in the end you shed your last drop of blood. Obtain for BradburyReader the grace to accept the afflictions and misfortunes of the present life as favors from the Divine Mercy. Amen.
 
Well that was quick. You’d think St Paul would have made you wait a bit!😉
 
Trust me, that 20 minutes or so was grueling enough. 😛
 
I have prayed the rosary for you. I find that, when I lose my patience, praying the rosary immediately calms me. God bless!
 
Hail Mary…

Amen.

Mother Mary, please help BR to be meek and patient like you. May he always refelct on your life and on the life of your Son as an example for his behavior. Amen.
 
Thank you all! 🙂 Please continue to pray that I have patience, and also peace (dealing with various anxiety issues).
 
Praying for you to have peace. 🙂

I was raised Protestant and one thing I’ve heard a hundred times over is never ask God for patience, unless you want to be tested like Job… Having scoffed at that and prayed for it years ago… I shall pray for you much peace and happiness. 🙂
God Bless~

Almighty God, I pray that thou wilt sustain Bradbury Reader
when they may be enduring for a purpose,
and to accomplish it seems beyond their strength.
Renew them with courage, and give them unceasing hope, and
faith that is able to hold out to the end.
Amen.

Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch, or weep tonight,
and give Your angels and saints charge over those who sleep.

Tend Your sick ones, O Lord Christ.
Rest Your weary ones.
Bless Your dying ones.
Soothe Your suffering ones.
Pity Your afflicted ones.
Shield Your joyous ones, and all for Your love’s sake.
Amen.
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This is a little more urgent: given some upcoming things, please pray for me to have peace and to be calm, in spite of my intrusive thought issues.

Thanks.
 
oh, sorry. :o I understand.

Our Father,
who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
thy kingdom come;
thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread;
and forgive us our trespasses
as we forgive those who trespass against us;
and lead us not into temptation,
but deliver us from evil.
Amen.

Hail, Mary, Full of grace, The Lord is with thee;
Blessed are thou among women,
And blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, Pray for us sinners,
Now, and at the hour of our death.
Amen.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,
and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning,
is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
Amen.

In the name of the Father,
And of the Son,
And of the Holy Spirit,
Amen. :signofcross:
 
Praying for your intention
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided. Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen.
 
I realized today that my anxiety-induced loneliness has had an effect on my writing fiction: almost all my characters are lonely (those that aren’t only have their immediate families or 1-2 friends, and they often lose them!) :o

Please pray for me to stop being lonely! (And please continue praying for me to have patience and peace.) 👍
 
Lord God, may BradburyReader have patience and calm… Take away his loneliness and fill him with Your light and Your presence. Let him know that You are always with him. Amen.
 
Im glad I checked your post again. Sorry you are still having problems. I will continue to pray for you.

I don’t know what writing projects you have going, but I will chip in a thought on it if you scare to hear it. I love reading fiction about people who are alone, feel set apart, suffer and overcome, or are cast into the unknown in some way. Dean Koontz is a favorite, and his male leads are often this way. His female leads often have known great losses, yet they persevere and become strong.

I think reading such tales helps us to understand that in a sense, we are quite alone. And yet, we are part of a mysterious tapestry in which others are integral to our own successes and failures. Characters who are alone are not usually just stereotypes with a lot of dialogue. We get to “hear” their thoughts and peer into their souls.

Maybe this type of fiction is not the book you have in you. But if it is, I imagine you would have to have some empathy for the characters you pen. Is writing this making you moody because it isn’t you? Or because it is?
 
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Im glad I checked your post again. Sorry you are still having problems. I will continue to pray for you.

I don’t know what writing projects you have going, but I will chip in a thought on it if you scare to hear it. I love reading fiction about people who are alone, feel set apart, suffer and overcome, or are cast into the unknown in some way. Dean Koontz is a favorite, and his male leads are often this way. His female leads often have known great losses, yet they persevere and become strong.

I think reading such tales helps us to understand that in a sense, we are quite alone. And yet, we are part of a mysterious tapestry in which others are integral to our own successes and failures. Characters who are alone are not usually just stereotypes with a lot of dialogue. We get to “hear” their thoughts and peer into their souls.

Maybe this type of fiction is not the book you have in you. But if it is, I imagine you would have to have some empathy for the characters you pen. Is writing this making you moody because it isn’t you? Or because it is?
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It is me. And one or two of my stories do deal with lonely people overcoming that, but it’s infiltrating all my writing, it seems. I don’t want every singe character I write to be like me. It’s just something I realized today that I hadn’t thought about before. Basically, my feeling lonely and introverted with only a few friends whom I contact sporadically is effecting me way more than I thought.
 
I understand you dont want all your characters to be the same. Has interacting on CAF seemed to be of any help? Yes, it is different from having flesh and blood friends you can go get a coffee with. I think that this might just be a good step, though. You’re talking about your writing issues and your loneliness. I think that makes problems more concrete, so that you can ideal with them rather than having them swim around in your head all the time. Maybe that’s why your characters are coming out rather too uniform? They are trying to work something out for you? I will pray for an inspiration for you. Can I ask what you’re writing about? Or what genre?
 
I have many, many story ideas. They mostly have science fiction or fantasy elements (though written from a Christian perspective and dealing with Christian themes).

I was also thinking about how the characters could be working through some things. 🙂

I know interacting on CAF and elsewhere is a good step, because for years I have had great anxiety and especially selective mutism (hard to talk to people outside my family). For some reason, though, it is easier to communicate through writing (although it too was hard at first). I guess because it reduces interpersonal contact? Anyway, I do think commenting and posting on various sites on the Internet has helped a bit, even if I still have a hard time communicating.

By the way, I don’t drink coffee. 😉
 
So no coffee, huh? How about an Italian soda? Scifi is one of my favorite genres. I have to be a bit more choosy with fantasy. The only vampire story I ever liked was Bram Stoker’s.

If short stories are your thing, what is the harm with several similar stories? Maybe they will coalesce into a novel. Or just be like Salinger’s 9 Stories. Different takes on a theme. Or do you feel you should maybe put it down for awhile, maybe force yourself to write something else and then return to your project with a different set of eyes?

Just so you know, I am not a writer. My thesis in grad school just about did me in. But it did help me to put it aside, write something different, then come back and try again. Its pretty natural to get blocked, even if the blocks differ between people.
 
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