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Please pray for my family.
My oldest brother is cohabiting with his girlfriend and seems very disintered in doing things God’s way, though he has gone to Mass with me three times in the last two years.
My middle brother is in a homosexual relationship, though he may be coming out of it soon as I was able to give him some sound information about this subject recently and he said he was going to respond to it. I think his relationship with our father was the weakest of the three of us and he may have had some early childhood experiences with the same sex that helped foster an appetite towards same-sex attraction. He also has been struggling with an addiction to narcotics. On the bright side, he’s recently stopped smoking. He’s worked his way down using the e-cigarettes and is on a much lower dose of nicotine per day. He’s been smoking since high school and he’s now 36. I believe this is the result of the intercession of our Lady, as well as my oldest brother who has stopped an addiction he had to the same substances, and my mom, who was overusing her pain killers. She had been using those for the last 30 years!
Now my mom seems addicted to jewelry TV. She has already spent around 30% of the money she had in savings buying stuff over the last four years, a lot of which she really doesn’t need. Another 20% of savings has been used on my oldest brother, who didn’t have a job over the last four years and wasn’t looking for a decent one while he was struggling with his narcotics addiction in addition to marijuana and possibly pornography. I’m the narcotics addiction is over, and his current girlfriend has helped him with that.
Getting back to my mom, I think jewelry can be a good hobby, but my mom doesn’t work with the stuff, mostly just buys it and watches the TV. I think she puts it first in her life and her relationship with God has suffered. She has regular pain issues due to arthritis, but I think she may use it as an excuse not to do things involved with taking good care of herself. She’s had two falls in the last year. I’m with her now to help take care of her but she seems very stubborn sometimes. She seems to insist on overfeeding her dog, which I’ve had to struggle with in order for her to reduce the dog’s food intake. She seems to think it will starve to death if it goes a day without dog food with cheese and beef ribs.
She used to be a strong Catholic but has progressively grown lukewarm. On the bright side, she did go to Mass with me last Friday, but unfortunately it was in Spanish. She didn’t receive communion and seems to have no interest in going to confession now, as far as I can tell.
I think the devil is really attacking us as a family from multiple directions and I could use all the extra help I can get in helping my family grow closer to our beloved Savior.
Lastly, please pray for me in the midst of all this, that I don’t get stressed out or angry, which worsens a tension-pain condition I have in my neck, and lose my temper… pray that I’ll keep my trust in the Lord and rejoice that the prayers that already have been answered continue to give me strength and joy.
Thank you
My oldest brother is cohabiting with his girlfriend and seems very disintered in doing things God’s way, though he has gone to Mass with me three times in the last two years.
My middle brother is in a homosexual relationship, though he may be coming out of it soon as I was able to give him some sound information about this subject recently and he said he was going to respond to it. I think his relationship with our father was the weakest of the three of us and he may have had some early childhood experiences with the same sex that helped foster an appetite towards same-sex attraction. He also has been struggling with an addiction to narcotics. On the bright side, he’s recently stopped smoking. He’s worked his way down using the e-cigarettes and is on a much lower dose of nicotine per day. He’s been smoking since high school and he’s now 36. I believe this is the result of the intercession of our Lady, as well as my oldest brother who has stopped an addiction he had to the same substances, and my mom, who was overusing her pain killers. She had been using those for the last 30 years!
Now my mom seems addicted to jewelry TV. She has already spent around 30% of the money she had in savings buying stuff over the last four years, a lot of which she really doesn’t need. Another 20% of savings has been used on my oldest brother, who didn’t have a job over the last four years and wasn’t looking for a decent one while he was struggling with his narcotics addiction in addition to marijuana and possibly pornography. I’m the narcotics addiction is over, and his current girlfriend has helped him with that.
Getting back to my mom, I think jewelry can be a good hobby, but my mom doesn’t work with the stuff, mostly just buys it and watches the TV. I think she puts it first in her life and her relationship with God has suffered. She has regular pain issues due to arthritis, but I think she may use it as an excuse not to do things involved with taking good care of herself. She’s had two falls in the last year. I’m with her now to help take care of her but she seems very stubborn sometimes. She seems to insist on overfeeding her dog, which I’ve had to struggle with in order for her to reduce the dog’s food intake. She seems to think it will starve to death if it goes a day without dog food with cheese and beef ribs.
She used to be a strong Catholic but has progressively grown lukewarm. On the bright side, she did go to Mass with me last Friday, but unfortunately it was in Spanish. She didn’t receive communion and seems to have no interest in going to confession now, as far as I can tell.
I think the devil is really attacking us as a family from multiple directions and I could use all the extra help I can get in helping my family grow closer to our beloved Savior.
Lastly, please pray for me in the midst of all this, that I don’t get stressed out or angry, which worsens a tension-pain condition I have in my neck, and lose my temper… pray that I’ll keep my trust in the Lord and rejoice that the prayers that already have been answered continue to give me strength and joy.
Thank you
