AS: The Prayers of the People 2018

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  • For Lamb Chopped, Dormouse, Gamma and All.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    {{{Lamb Chopped and her sister}}}

    Prayers continuing for all in need.
  • Prayers for all in need 🕯
  • 🕯Prayers for all above.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Prayers continuing to ascend.
  • I'm in Calif. with my sister, who is on hospice and who slept all day today. I'm having trouble understanding her--she hardly moves her lips when she speaks. Her sons are her caregivers. The rest of my family is scrambling to arrange and rearrange plans, travel and otherwise. She hardly drinks. I'm afraid she won't last much longer.
  • ((Lamb Chopped))). Praying for you, your sister and your entire family. 🕯
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Oh, LC. Kyrie eleison. Please, Lord, don't let her suffer so!
  • Prayers for her, LC
  • MaryLouiseMaryLouise Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    For LC, family and sister 🕯
  • Prayers for all in need.
  • For LC, Gamma and all.
  • jedijudyjedijudy Heaven Host, 8th Day Host
    For LC, her sister and all the family. 🕯

    Praying for all of us. 🕯
  • JCPJCP Shipmate Posts: 3
    For Lamb Chopped and her whole family.
  • My prayers for us all in all this pain.
    I am with Little Beaky whose parents have just been told that in addition to all the other stuff he faces he is also severely visually impaired.

    I honestly have no words
  • 🕯The Beaky family

    🕯LC, her sister and family

    🕯Gamaliel, his wife and family

    Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayers.
  • And let our cry come unto you.

  • Lord, in your mercy hear our prayers for comfort, healing and peace for these shipmates and their loved ones who are suffering. 🕯
  • My brother's car got stranded in a flood this morning. Potentially a disastrous situation for the whole family, I'm going to have to help him out with money for repairs at the very least. If the car is totaled, I don't know what we're going to do. I could, theoretically, afford to give him the money to get a new one, but it would come out of my investments which I'm trying to save for a down payment on a condo or co-op for my retirement in a few years. Please pray the car is repairable at a reasonable cost. This is desperate.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Oh poor Little Beaky - as someone who was very visually-impaired at birth, he has a very understanding virtual auntie over here! :cry:

    Prayers continuing to ascend for all the Clan Beaky, for LC, her sister and family and for all others in need.
  • I'm now six weeks behind with my PhD project. A colleague stopped me in the hallway and said "you'll be writing up soon, won't you?" Actually the experiments have just barely started, and I am making no progress.

    It is now 10:30 pm and I have a 90 minute drive home. On Wednesday I spent 8 hours soldering the connecting pins for one of 8 devices. It didn't work.

    Yesterday I once again got thwarted in my efforts to leave the house, so I stayed home and rethought. I ordered Dupont wires from Amazon and stayed home waiting for the delivery.

    They work, but the proportions are completely unsuitable for the project, unless I remove the casings and solder them, and my inability to solder is the actual problem I was trying to solve.

    I found new techniques of holding the wires still and I got a good mechanical connection each time, but after 8 hours of struggling the replacement connection that I made using the new technique still does not work.

    Also, as I rotate around the components of all 8 devices the components I soldered earlier are starting to break apart.

    I can't go to the hardware expert for help because he is disgusted by my inability to solder and has very publicly and memorably reprimanded me for it in front of my boss.

    At my present rate of progress it will take me 8 more weeks to complete these devices (not counting casings, mountings and facades) and they will fall apart very quickly in use.

    =======

    Last night my mother was crying in pain again, and this morning again she was crying in pain and nearly passing out.

    It turns out that she used up all the medication she brought home from the hospital, and took no action to get any more. She has phoned in a prescription renewal, but it's Friday.

    It also turns out that she was taking 2 x 300mg gabapentin 3 times per day, but then ran out of the 300mg tablets and has been taking 2 x 100mg gabapentin 3 times per day because she was being mindless about it, didn't attempt to know how much her daily dose was, and never considered reading the label to see how much of that she was taking at a time.

    Most people I guess would rather avoid pain first and foremost, but to her, mindlessness is the greatest comfort of all, and always has been. But it was an extremely upsetting scene this morning and also made me late. Everything always makes me late.

    She also was alternating paracetamol with ibuprofen before she went into the hospital, but when she came out of hospital she was crying in pain again for a while because she had forgotten she was taking ibuprofen before. She called out the doctor who told her to take ibuprofen, but the next day she had forgotten this. Giving her any medical information is like pouring it into a sieve.

    This has always been true, it is not due to any cognitive decline. However she has ADD which she has chosen never to try to treat, instead making it clear that nothing is to be expected of her in the way of intellect or memory. This has often been a source of frustration and distress for me. It was today. We had the conversation again about how she is going to write things down. We always have this conversation. Nothing will change.




  • Okay, 4 of 8 devices now in known good working order.

    3 of 4 connectors so far soldered are in working order. One of these is the "good technique" one I made today. The one that doesn't work is the one I made on Wednesday that I knew was crap which is how I got here.

    For Lamb Chopped and, fervently, for Sister Chopped. Lord, have mercy. For the Chopped family.

    For Dormouse.

    For Gamaliel, his wife and family.

    For poor Little Beaky, how much he has to bear.

    For affordable repair of Nicole's brother's car.

    I get upset with the Telemum because she tunes stuff out rather than use her intelligence; and she gets upset with me because I worry all the time. Application of mindfulness and intelligence solved my wiring problem just now. I pray for more mindfulness and more intelligence. For the Telefamily, but there's plenty for everyone.

    And now I'm gonna need travel mercies to get home
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    {{{Telepath}}} and the Telemum. Kyrie eleison.

    <votive> Prayers ascending for all in need. There are so very many.

  • I am sorry to say my brothers car is a write-off. We're going to have to find some way to get him a new (used) one. I will probably have to either take out a loan, or co-sign one with him.
  • MaryLouiseMaryLouise Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    Nicole, that sounds so stressful. Prayers for you and your brother 🕯

    Prayers for the Beaky family🕯

    For LC and her sister 🕯

    For Gamma Gamaliel and his wife 🕯

    For Dormouse 🕯

    For Telepath and the Telemum

    For WW whom we miss so much 🕯

    For all in need 🕯

    Taking my list of names and requests up to the church for some solid intercessory prayer.
  • For the Telefamily, for the Beaky family and for the Chopped family.

    I would appreciate prayers for my Beloved Goddaughter, who thinks life is unfair.

  • Life is unfair, unfortunately. Part of teenage growing pains is accepting that unfairness and working out how to live with it or try to change it - hence passionate campaigning teens. But it's one of the real difficulties for all teenagers to deal with when they are going through those growing pains, particularly if they haven't had the support to build resilience. Praying for NEQ's Beloved Goddaughter to learn resilience.

    Echoing MaryLouise's prayers above:
    MaryLouise wrote: »
    Nicole, that sounds so stressful. Prayers for you and your brother 🕯

    Prayers for the Beaky family🕯

    For LC and her sister 🕯

    For Gamma Gamaliel and his wife 🕯

    For Dormouse 🕯

    For Telepath and the Telemum

    For WW whom we miss so much 🕯

    For all in need 🕯
    So sorry to hear about the Beaky baby -that's so hard.
  • LibsLibs Shipmate
    Amen and amen.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Prayers continuing to ascend, especially for NEQ's god-daughter - teenage years aren't the easiest, are they?
  • finelinefineline Kerygmania Host, 8th Day Host
    Praying through for all mentioned here, and for any unspoken prayers.
  • Reading and praying for all in need. 🕯 🕯 🕯
  • Praying
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Prayers ascending for all in need.
  • 🕯 for all needs expressed here and for all praying here
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    <votive> For NEQ's Beloved Goddaughter
    <votive> For all in need
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Prayers ascending for all in need.
  • For Ross.

    For a cheap or free, and excellent, replacement for Nicole’s brother’s car. Ideally one for which Nicole doesn’t need to take out or cosign a loan.

    For the Beakies.

    For Lamb Chopped and Sister Chopped, kyrie eleison.

    For Gamma Gamaliel and his wife.

    For Dormouse.

    For WW.

    For MaryLouise, thank you for your ministry.

    For life to be, and seem, more fair or better say favourable to BG Quine.

    For Cousin Dearheart. I am not getting any news. I just want her to be healed. For Cousin-In-Law and Dearheart’s children.

    For M., J., and G.

    For cousin S. and 2nd cousins J and M. I have a difficult letter to write now. Please give me the words.

    For the Telemum. Her appointment with the vascular surgeon has been brought forward to tomorrow morning first thing, out of urgency; I pray for wisdom and wizardry from all involved.

    Also, her ulcer is not healing so they are thinking of setting maggots on her. These are very expensive, thoroughbred maggots that went to that finishing school in Switzerland. I really want her to be healed and get back to the way she was before; she’s really being very cheerful and patient in the circumstances but it is so much to ask of her.

    Soldered 1 more connector-thing today. 5 more to go. Theoretically I can make 1 in two hours if all goes right; I’d like to set a challenge tomorrow whereby I complete all 5 in a blaze of glory.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    <votive> For Telepath, and for all the intentions on her list.
    <votive> For all victims of natural disaster and warfare.
    <votive> For all in need.

  • Reading and Praying for all in need. 🕯
  • Some good news relating to my brother's car situation, it turns out that his insurance covers it for the total current value of the car, less a $500 deductible. The insurance guy will look at it tomorrow. So he should get something at least, and need that much less of a loan. Prayers that the insurance estimate be generous would be appreciated.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    That's helpful, Nicole - glad to hear it.

    Prayers continuing to ascend.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    Deo gratias, Nicole! Prayers continue to ascend.

    <votive> For all in need

  • Praying for all in need. 🕯
  • praying through, not forgetting Lamb Chopped, the Beaky Family, the Telemum, Gamma Gamaliel, and all.
  • Thank you
    Little Beaky (plus his numerous bottles of medication and equipment) is coming to stay with us today- to give his lovely Mum a bit of a break from the everyday chores of their somewhat unusual life.
    The new medication he is on has reduced the number of seizures he has each day but there is still a way to go on that and so many other fronts, so all prayers appreciated!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    {{{All the Beakies, large and small}}}

    Prayers ascending for all in need.
  • Something silly but would you pray that my dishwasher is installed tomorrow without breaking anything else. My old one broke about ten days ago and it has been a saga of mishap ever since. It would also be nice if I could sort my hoover.

    Thanks
  • 🕯Prayers for all above.
  • RossweisseRossweisse Hell Host, 8th Day Host
    <votive> Praying through, for all in the thread by name
    <votive> Praying for all others in need
  • Reading and praying for all in need. 🕯
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