Who can we pray for today?
And be sure to keep Gambia and those ministering there in your prayers as well. 🙂
Proverbs 3:1-8
1 My son, forget not my law; but let thine heart keep my commandments:
2 For length of days, and long life, and peace, shall they add to thee.
3 Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thine heart:
4 So shalt thou find favour and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
7 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Wandering Views 
Two praise reports this morning. Hubby had lunch with his friend David yesterday. He is cancer free in his throat and only has a little left in his sinuses. He has been able to go back to work and his wife has found a job, which is helping with their Financial problems. .
Hubby’s niece, who had had a couple of miscarriages, gave birth to a 4 lb 4 oz baby boy yesterday. He is small but doing well. His name is Lucas.
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We’re under considerable stress here at our house. I’m thinking a lot of it is spiritual warfare but it revolves around the following:
My WW I novel which features Oswald Chambers
Our son and family are buying our house
Job reorg for my husband
Church issues
Finding a new home in a tight market
All my children are in the middle of difficult challenges with school or work.
I cannot take off this summer from work myself.
Fortunately, we’re all healthy except for the pregnant daughter-in-law and she’s coming around in the second trimester.
If God brings us to mind, amen. We’re weathering it, but if we think about things too much they start to feel overwhelming. I, for one, have determined I’m only going to think about the house situation during my aerobics class from 6-7, since my heart is racing then anyway. 🙂
It’s easy for me to veer off into shame–“it’s not that bad. I’m not worrying about Meth dealers tracking me down, right? I’m also not fretting about black mambas in the burn pile or the river flooding, not to mention a teenager.”
I posted this on FB the other day. “I’m in a peculiar place, a sort of cross between Alfred E. Newman, Jesus and Scarlett O’Hara: What? Me worry? Sufficient unto the day is the trouble therein and I’ll think about all this tomorrow.”
I’m confident the Lord will bring us through all this fine. I’d just rather be on the other end sooner, instead of later . . . 🙂
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Michelle – I think many of us are in the midst of some kind of spiritual warfare. A dear, wise friend recently said in an email, referring to some serious challenges she & others are currently facing, “I believe all signs are pointing to a serious revolution in the spirit world.”
As for your house, rather than buying a new house, could you build on, or convert part of it to, an apartment for you & your husband?
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Praise to God for making the way for Lee to buy his own bread route (sort of like owning a franchise). The closing just finished up a little while ago. 🙂
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Congrats to you and Lee, Karen. I pray it will be a real blessing for your family.
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Karen, I am thrilled for you and Lee.
KBells, even when I was going through the infertility issues, I thought it had to be easier not to be able to get pregnant at all than to be able to get pregnant and lose the baby–that might have destroyed me. With my issues I didn’t know what I was losing so the loss wasn’t as profound–if that makes any sense at all. Thank God for Lucas. May he be a healthy and hapy and well loved little boy.
Michelle, I read your post on FB the other day and grinned that you were getting in touch with your Southern Heritage. I didn’t know all that you had going on. My first inclination was to tell you that you had been a Navy Wife. You could handle a move! Then I sat here in my little kitchen where I have been almost two years. This house is tiny and is part of the issue with BG. We are crowded and we need a bigger house but when I think of finding another house, packing it all up, moving it, and unpacking it again–I am overwhelmed. I hear ya sista! I might know a thing or two about real estate. I do know the California market is tightening up and that houses aren’t staying on the market long and are receiving multiple offers. Do you have a good agent? Could I find a higher level agent for you? It is important for you to remember that you feel how you feel and you are entitled to feel how you feel. I like to give myself an hour or an afternoon to have a Giant Ol’ Pitty Party and feel good and sorry for myself. I may just wallow in my misery. But when the time is up, it’s up. Have have to get a grip and stop worrying about it. Perhaps if you allowed yourself this Pitty Party you wouldn’t be lying awake at night woried and praying. (Yes, I am aware of what I just typed and plan to take some of my own advice). Let us know if we can do anything besides return the prayer favor.
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