I am offering special prayers for all the military particularly on this coming Veterans Day. My son has been in Iraq and he will be deployed again in June.
I am so happy for you Fitz. I know how precious that phone call was. Keeping you and yours, and all our Military in prayer.
Please pray for my wife. I came home from work today to find her in tears talking on the phone. The hospital scheduling department had called to say she needed to come back in for a re-take of her mamogram and an ultrasound, but they couldn’t say why, that she should talk to her doctor. She was at his office today! She called him, and he knew nothing about it, he hadn’t gotten the results from the mamogram yet. He tried to calm her down, saying if it was serious, the radiologist would have phoned him first. He said he’d find out tomorrow and get back to her. She is a wreck. I am really angry at the hospital. The scheduling department is not the proper way to convey this kind of information.
To top it off, I was going to ask for prayers for her back surgery that she has scheduled for Wednesday. Now she’s thinking that she’ll have to put that off until she has some answers. She was looking forward to the surgery; after years of pain and no diagnosis, they finally found something operable. She was hopeful. Now this. Sorry for venting and going on so long.
Dear Father in heaven, I plead with you to embrace this wife with your loving arms. You, who have knit her in her mother’s womb, you that loved her so much to send your only Son to redeem her, we ask you to surround her with your peace and serenity. May the light that Moses experienced on Mount Sianai, surround her and transform her and heal her of any pain or anxiety. May Your presence be felt during this very difficult time and Your will always be done. I ask this through Your son, our Lord Jesus Christ…Code:
We’ll keep praying for her and you Jimmytoes. What an awful ordeal to have to go through right before her surgery. That woman must be a Saint or something, (you too). Let us know how everything goes.
Will keep Mary’s son in our prayers (that sounds kind of funny doesn’t it?) But you know what I mean!!
Catherine S. said:
Welcome back. I am glad that the Lord stopped you from killing yourself. I am relieved and very glad you are with us again, and a Catholic. I wish I had strength too. Maybe the Lord has answered my prayers or maybe He hasn't. I might not be listening or realizing it. Maybe it is too painful for me to accept.
I also had a very low time in my life before, and again I am at a low time now. I prayed very hard to the Lord. I asked that He introduce me to the man that will never leave me, the man I would marry. When I met Brant, I knew it was him. I was surprised.
So even until this day I believe that we will be together. The odds are so against us. Maybe God meant something else, I tell myself. Maybe Brant will not leave me and be my friend forever. Maybe that instead of marriage. But something warm and fuzzy tells me things will be alright. I always felt this way whenever Brant and I had a big argument and were on the verge of breaking up. I still feel things will be alright.
But I am scared. For I have been away from God for a long time. Maybe He wants me back and He doesn't want me with Brant anymore. I do not know God's will. I am praying that He let us get married. We are still in love. The relationship is rocky. I need a miracle Lord. I must be selfish. I keep asking you for Brant's love and my love to be strong enough to withstand all this. But maybe that is not your will. Maybe I am making others sin by asking this of you. I don't see the whole picture. Only you do, Lord. I want to ask for you forgiveness. I do not mean to be selfish. There are so many others that marry. They are in love. I am happy for them. I know I would be among the happiest brides on earth if I were to marry Brant.
Please pray for me. I am slowly trying to get my life back together and not be so dependent emotionally. I am trying to be a better Catholic. I am trying so hard to get out of this gloomy state I am in. But if Brant tells me that things are over, then I don't know if I will lose my mind or if I will stand strong.
I have prayed many years to be with Brant. And the Lord answered my prayers when things were very difficult. We love each other dearly and care so much....
I feel as if the whole world hates me. I know that some of you do not. But right now I feel as if there is a force acting against me. I hope it is not a test. I hope it is not something I cannot bear. I hope that in the end I will be strong enough to say that I love God, even if I collapse.
I am reaching out to you my brothers and sisters. Hoping that God will hear your prayers and mine, and have mercy on me. I have offended him and wronged him. I repented and still repent. I am trying not to be the way that I was. I just hope that Brant will still love me and want to marry me.