Who can we pray for today?
Or share a praise or update if you prefer. 🙂
Psalm 9:1-2
1 I will praise thee, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will shew forth all thy marvellous works.
2 I will be glad and rejoice in thee: I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most High.
Wandering Views 
Thanks to all who prayed for me on Saturday. Becca’s party was a rousing success! I actually enjoyed the party (which given how I felt before the party, can only be attributed to being covered in prayer). So, thank you!
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Prayer for us here at the Nest as we continue to peel the onion. Always asking God to bring out the Truth and asking Him for guidance on how to deal with it. We would really like to have more adult eyes around here. Not people who like children and expect them to behave a certain way but people who like children and want to help them heal by being very strong for them. God knows who we need. But I was reading about the guy who did not have anybody to help him get into the pool, God healed him anyway. Perhaps we won’t have any human help but God can still heal the children.
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Please pray for my son. He is going to be 29 in April and he can’t ever seem to get ahead. He is in the growing group of college grads who can’t get a job that pays a living wage. Right now he is working at a call center for a spine and pain management doctor practice. He has a master’s degree and this is the best job he can get. He does not look good on paper because he has no experience. He has had experience at life, but not at any real jobs because he was busy experiencing his education and graduating with a 3.8 GPA. And how is a person supposed to get experience if no one will take a chance on hiring him? Because of this, he looks bad on paper and there are hundreds of other people competing for the same jobs who look better on paper. He even got passed over for a promotion at work because he did not have enough experience, so they hired from without the company. One of the jobs he didn’t get, he is doing anyway half of the time and the person they hired from without the company is incompetent. The job of call center supervisor. I just keep telling him to hang in there and keep applying for jobs within the company and outside the company. He is pretty much depressed about things. Only one of his college friends has what one would call a c areer type of job. The rest are all working in service jobs and have had their hours cut because of Obamatax. He can’t move out because he can’t afford to live anywhere else around here. Not even with a roommate or several roommates. (It’s hard enough finding one roommate.) Several of his married friends are living with their parents too. So it’s not just him. It’s his whole age bracket. We have a whole decade of mostly uinderemployed college grads. And more and more people are losing the jobs they had. Pray for him and his whole generation. Thank you.
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Klasko – I understand completely, as I’m another one of that generation. I was in the same position as your son just a year ago. Then someone told me of a short-term missions opportunity, and here I am. I’m not sure what will happen after my time here is up, but the Lord will provide. It will probably be in missions – I love my country, but it does not need me.
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Klaasko: Yes, the jobs situation is not good and it doesn’t look to hopeful for much change. He does need to continue doing his best at whatever he is doing and make sure his bitterness about the situation not get him down. He needs to grow through this, instead of it letting him stunt him. That is not easy, but is my prayer for him.
Interestingly, my mother told me that her father used to hire people for this very reason. No one else wanted someone without experience. He would hire them, train them and then let them to go on to a better job in those places that required experience. Of course, this was back in earlier part of the twentieth century when the government didn’t have all the rules and regulations that a business must now follow.
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Several personal things going on today. I really need help
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I am better now.
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I’m glad Kim.
Did they get solved or are you just tolerating things?
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A little of both. 😉
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I see the same thing Klasko and KI see and the school debt just makes it worse. Often the ones who can get work are the wives and we’ve got men home raising children. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it can cause problems within a marriage. And so many can’t even get their foot in the door to start life-long work. They sure aren’t putting away money for retirement or planning to buy a house. So who is doing that?
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I inadvertently offended my SIL, who has now unfriended me from Facebook. I feel sick & sad about this, & too upset in my spirit. (Not that being friends on Facebook is all that important, but it means something when a relative unfriends you.)
(Details to be posted on Our Daily Thread in a bit.)
Anyway, please pray for peace in my spirit, & that God will work in all our hearts (mine as a believer, theirs as unbelievers) through this or despite this. (I say “theirs” as including brother & niece, who will certainly hear her perspective on this.)
Also, Niece asked me, via email, a question I’ve not wanted to be asked – Can I “…witness, support and celebrate the marriage between a lesbian woman and a transman?”
I honestly don’t know how to answer her, but in whatever I eventually reply, I want it to be loving in the way Jesus would want me to be loving.
I really am feeling so sick about the whole “extended family” situation. They have taken a couple comments from me way out of proportion, & feel that I have hurt their feelings. That was never, ever my intent, & I truly believe they have twisted my words, but it still bothers me greatly.
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Karen, if that’s the exchange I saw on FB this morning, I can’t imagine how anyone could be “offended.” You were nothing but gentle (clear, but gentle, just suggesting a different way of looking at things).
I’m so sorry, it just seems like there’s this weird alternative universe all of a sudden.
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Thank you, Donna. Yes, & that alternative universe is scary.
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Indeed.
Putting aside the core issue, the idea that we cannot any longer have a respectful dialogue about the topic and allow that there is a disagreement based on conscience? Does that not raise flags with anyone on the ‘other’ side?
Apparently not.
How surreal. Feels like the Twilight Zone.
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So sorry about all that, Karen. Your FB post was, in my opinion, an exemplary picture of respectful dissent. I will pray for peace in your spirit. And yes, the Lord will use it for good. He is about the business of working all things for the good of His people.
Praying also that He will give you some restful sleep tonight. Blessings.
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I could use some prayers for a restful sleep tonight, too, if anyone is reading this tonight. I went to bed, but didn’t fall asleep, as my brain kept dredging up the angry thoughts I was having this morning (the “seething and bristling” I mentioned on the daily thread). I should just move past it — it shouldn’t be as big a deal as I’m making it — but here, in the dark of night, the moving past it is just not happening. 😦
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