It’s Thursday, so don’t forget to pray for Jo and the folks in PNG.
Anyone else have something to share?
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Janice sent this picture to me of her “view” from her husband’s hospital room.
Thank you to all of you who are praying for Janice, her husband, and their family. Let’s continue to lift them up to the Lord for healing and strength.
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
James 5:16
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Psalm 107:1-9
¹O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.
2 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
3 And gathered them out of the lands, from the east, and from the west, from the north, and from the south.
4 They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.
5 Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
6 Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.
7 And he led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of habitation.
8 Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
9 For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with goodness.
Wandering Views 
I was talking to another teacher today and we both felt that so much was going on here that it feels that we are under spiritual attack. And we are all stretched so thin, we need more workers.
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just read an update on facebook. at his point the doctors are still trying to save the right leg of the pilot. The situation was so serious that both of our doctors went on the medevac. The clinic was closed today.
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Heavenly Father,
You are ever so great and mighty. You are in control. You bring on the new day and dispense with the old. Thank You for how You see us through trouble times with doses of hope, peace, comfort, and love as needed. How do people do life without including You? Help those to get on your path who have never known the refreshment of Your daily benefits.
Please, Father God, take good care of the pilot with the badly broken body that Jo told us about. Make a perfect way to healing. Please give him a good testimony of Your supernatural power to heal and bring health to what seems irreparable. Only through Your power and knowledge is the wisdom given to doctors to do what needs to be done to fix the broken places. You do the inner weaving back together. Please do save the life and limbs of this pilot for him to continue forward in Your kingdom work.
Thank You that my husband did not have a reaction to any of his meds, especially the new Vancomicin began last night. May it be the one that can dispelled the infection from his system. Thank You for the prayer support from friends here. Thank You for son’s safe arrival and that brother was well enough to pick up son.
Please help the ebola patients to quickly get well. May all precautions be done correctly so the disease will not spread.
In Jesus’ name, Amen
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Amen and amen
Asking for prayer for Doug…he is having two different heart surgeries today…he is a dear friend and brother in the Lord…they lived with us for six months as they were adopting one of our babies…slow adoption process and they needed to bond with their precious child…so they moved in with us! Now for the past 23 years we consider ourselves to be family…God is good…all the time
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I posted on FB last night that I was feeling very discouraged. I had hoped that with the rising of the sun the black cloud would scurry away. I came into work this morning feeling hopeful. I sent out a message to the agents that lunch would be provided in the office today if anyone was interested. Out of 40 people I got 2 responses.
I am trying to be likeable. I keep my office doors open so that I am more approachable than the other 3 people with office who keep their doors shut. Out of a survey being sent to all 100 of our agents in this office where I am every day I have the lowest satisfaction score of any of the managers.
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My SIL seems to have a partly good resolution to his problem with his university. He will be able to graduate in December, which is good. He loses out on 1500.00 and has to do another class. A lesson is learned in making sure everything is in writing. That is a good thing to remind any others who are in the university. One of my other daughters does some student advising at a university. She always sends emails of everything discussed with her students. If that had been done here, it would have saved a lot of trouble.
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Oh and let me say that due to my upbringing and my mother’s actions…I don’t “buy” friendships. I am not above bribing with food.
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My friend Norma is progressing in her recovery, though she was still in ICU as of late yesterday — but they’d taken out the breathing tube and got her up for the first time! She should get transitioned into a regular room today, we hope. Thank you, Lord.
And remember Jane? The friend who has been taking care of her is Catholic and has a rather tenuous grasp of the gospel (but says she doesn’t want the devil taking her). And, bless her, she made a cold call on a local Lutheran church (Jane was baptized Lutheran — and this was michelle’s alma mater, by the way) to ask if the pastor would be willing to come by and visit with Jane who has become less feisty. My friend figured she isn’t able to fight back like she used to right now.
So the pastor came to the house and apparently had a generally agreeable talk with Jane (though she refused his prayers), read from the Bible and explained the passages (I don’t know which ones). My friend thinks just *maybe* progress was made.
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Kim, journalists are notorious about lining up for free food. I’ve seen my colleagues literally sprint across the newsroom when advertising sends out an email message that they’re sharing some of their fancy left-overs with the rest of the office (they get the best food with all those restaurants they do business with).
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Yeah, Donna, when I was an editor it was always the marketing teams that got the fancy gift baskets at Christmas. The ONE time an author sent me something, he marked it as something to share. 😦 (I did have an author send me some cookies once, after I went freelance. But my ten years in the office I saw gift baskets in other departments all the time, I only remember one or two coming to editorial, and only one was sent to me. And that one was marked to be shared.) I’m afraid editors are too often seen as a necessary evil, not friends.
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Yeah! Nathan’s a good guy–I stopped in just to see the changes at Trinity one day long ago. I’d been to visit a Navy wife friend who had moved to town (!!!) and was dying. I got through our farewell just fine, stopped at church and Nate, who didn’t know me, came out to chat.
He’s the son of a couple I knew in youth group back in the dark ages (“Wow, you know my parents!”) married to a woman whose father was our youth group leader and who married someone else we knew. And her grandparents are responsible for my husband becoming a Christian.
Anyway, Nathan went pastoral on me–just when I needed him to–and reassured me the church my friend attended would take good care of her and her family.
A ten minute conversation with a stranger, that encouraged and helped me through the day. A total blessing.
We’ll continue praying for Jane.
And Kim– We see the good in you and you’ve blessed us many times, too. Pay no attention to the men and women behind the curtains.
But I would continue giving them water to drink. 🙂
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Nathan was the guy, michelle. Good for him and good for my friend who was outrageously bold enough to try the seemingly impossible. 🙂 (I said, “You did what?!” when she told me on the phone last night.)
If you knew Jane, you’d understand how daring this all was!
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Our dear friend Doug came through the heart procedures just fine…I am told he is up and cracking jokes…my heart is full with thankfulness for the prayers whispered on his behalf and for the ever loving kindness of our Lord ❤ ( Doug is also a Dutch Reformed pastor and teaches ESL at a very rough high school in Queens NY…he was raised there and has the quick wit, humor and street smarts needed to go along with it…and he is probably the smartest man I know….besides my husband that is ;-P )
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Since summer, my friend’s foster daughter (early 20’s) has had pneumonia twice. She previously had a leaky valve and a small hole in her heart. She was scheduled for surgery last week and during the pre-surgery tests the doctors found results they weren’t expecting. They ordered another test and the next day (the day before the surgery was booked), the doctors called and said the hole in the heart was so much smaller and the valve was leaking so much less that they couldn’t improve on it with surgery. “We don’t know how or why this happened, as the pneumonia should have made it worse”. My friend said it’s a miracle and they couldn’t say it was anything but.
It’s interesting to think that all of us who were praying for her, were praying for wisdom and guidance for the doctors, for a successful surgery, etc. Not one of us (that we know of), asked God for healing and no need for surgery.
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.”
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Amen.
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