Who would you like us to pray for today?
1 Corinthians 13
1 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.
11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.
12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Wandering Views 
The young woman named Sarah with the Moya-Moya disease is in a lot of pain after her surgery. She is also having difficulty speaking and they think she may have had a stroke. Please continue praying for her.
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Klasko, I don’t envy you all that you face on the weekend. I am praying for you and the others.
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I have this chapter memorized and I must say it is a great section of scripture on which to meditate. One would think if you are giving all you have to the poor, suffering hardship, moving mountains with prayer and prophesying, it would all be for the Lord and out of love for others. Obviously not according to these verses.
The discription of love catches me over and over as I realize that my thoughts and/or actions are not a reflection of love at all.
Very fitting verses for a day set aside for rejoicing in love.
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I thought so too. It’s a good to be reminded.
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Kathaleena – I appreciate the prayers as the Lord puts me on your heart. Pray that I will be able to keep focused on Jesus and that God will show me any areas of unconfessed sin in my own heart. I don’t want any thing to hinder. Thanks.
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Amen, Klasko.
One of my colleagues at work suggested we go through 1 Corinthians 13 and substitute our name for each line as in, “Michelle is patient, Michelle is kind.”
I don’t get very far down the list, praying that way.
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Good idea Michelle. Maybe I need to go do that. I came here to ask for help in keeping from having to “kill one of those what might need killin’ “. Most of the people in my life are driving me crazy right now.
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Praying ladies.
And you would think it easy to pray thru that list like that. But it’s not. 😦
Even those we want to shower with it, our own selves get in the way of doing it as it should be sometimes. I plead guilty to being lacking in several of those at times. I need to work on that. The people I love, and those around me deserve it. I would benefit as well I think.
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Please pray for my husband. The overnight work hours are really beating him down. When he woke up this afternoon, he walked into the kitchen and was moaning and groaning so bad, I thought he was sick. I asked him if he was, and he said he didn’t feel well because of lack of sleep (he can’t sleep well in the daytime — it’s more of a dozing/waking cycle over and over until early afternoon, when he can’t sleep anymore, even though he frequently doesn’t get to bed until after 7:00 a.m.) and walking around on a concrete floor from late afternoon until almost daylight the next day five times a week. And the later in the week it is, the more exhausted he gets.
He doesn’t have to work weekends, which means he can get more sleep and can rejuvenate a little, but he adopts the family’s daytime schedule then, which probably makes it harder to get used to going back to a nighttime schedule again after the weekend is over. 😦
Please pray for stamina, for safety on the road when he’s driving to and from work, and that more workers will get hired soon for the overnight shift so that he can go to a daytime shift like planned. The overnights for him were only supposed to be a few weeks in January, but one person quit the first week of January, and his replacement didn’t start until this week or last. Also this week or last, another person quit, and one got fired, so now they need to get replacements for those two, plus there really needed to be another person added to the original number of workers for that shift. So my husband will be stuck with this shift until at least 2 or 3 more people get hired and start working.
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Praying for your hubby, 6 arrows.
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6arrows: I know how difficult that shift work can be. My husband never slept well when he work midnights. He usually ended up sick after a long stretch of them. (He had 8 day stretches.) It is hard on the body and mind and the rest of the family. For my husband it did not matter how hard we tried to be quiet; he just could not sleep during the day.
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Sarah I wrote about above is doing a bit better now. She did not have a stroke. The symptoms she has a expected after the brain surgery she had to undergo. Please pray for continued healing, though.
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Thanks for your prayers for my hubby, Klasko. I’m praying for you and your family, also, with the upcoming family meeting to discuss your situation and possible solutions. Is that this coming weekend?
Kathaleena, yes, we’re finding that out, too, that hubby just doesn’t sleep well in the daytime. The kids have actually been doing very well with keeping relatively quiet while their dad is sleeping (they woke him up with their noise a couple times the first week), but that is rarely an issue anymore and he still wakes up easily. I can walk into the bedroom virtually soundlessly, and with no sound coming from down the hall during the brief time the door is open, and he will almost invariably wake up. He doesn’t sleep deeply enough.
Perhaps I could have invested in dark shades or something for the windows to completely block light coming in, but I thought these work hours of his were only a very temporary situation. I’ll have to see what I can do to help him, being that it will probably be a while before he’s done working this shift.
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Prayers, 6Arrows & Klasko (and for Sarah, so glad it wasn’t a stroke!).
I just recently read something about some tests (on mice, I think) showing that even the slightest light in a room (even a nightlight) caused eye movements and was disruptive to a deep sleep. I love night lights but decided to go without after that and I think I am sleeping better (I rarely have trouble sleeping, however — but now that I’ve adjusted to no nightlight, I think it is actually better).
So sleeping during the day would be very challenging for any of us (if we had to rely on daytime sleep). I’m hoping your husband’s hours get changed soon. I feel for him.
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Thanks, Donna. I think you’re right about light, even a small amount, being disruptive. There were a lot of years we used a nightlight when a little one slept in our room, but after that era was over and we had a totally darkened room in which to sleep, I did start to sleep better, too, I think.
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I’ve been thinking of a couple folks for whom today was probably a tough one — a long-married couple in church dealing with the husband’s terminal illness and a man (also from church) whose wife died unexpectedly (they’re in their 40s) just before Christmas. 😦
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