Mumsee—No, I never get tired of anyone asking for prayer for wisdom.
Which reminds me of how much I love reading Paul’s prayers in his letters. What a heart he had for those he was evangelizing and doing ministry for! We are blessed to read them and learn better how to pray for those we love.
E. M. Bounds has some very good books on prayer.
That is on my mind when I hear of studies that seem to exchange ideas that have less biblical basis than they should. Some are just fluffy and will not hurt us anymore than cotton candy. Others can really detour us or turn us from truth.
We had a nice visit with the doctor. Daughter was lovely. He suggested four possibilities. Continue as we are, oral contraceptive to help regulate her, antianxiety meds, counseling. He also told daughter to knock it off. She says she can control it so he told her to do so. That will probably help significantly because he is a doctor. He is confident in what we are doing so he was leaning toward the continue as is but let me know the meds were just a phone call away if I thought it needed. Husband commented that the doc would not have been so nonchalant if it was his window getting hit. But I want her to control what she is able, then, if she still needs help, we can go that way. Thanks for praying and any continued prayer is appreciated.
Mumsee, I’m assuming you wouldn’t consider the oral contraceptive route, but I want to specifically warn you against that one. I know so many people who’ve had problems with the Pill, sometimes continuing years after going off of it. It is so potent and so dangerous that I suspect the only reason it is still legal is that it does something Americans “need.” Further, I have heard of girls who are on the Pill for medical reasons but who find it easy to justify sex once they get into a relationship, because it is already risk-free. (I have a good friend who got a grandkid that way, because her son’s wife was a few months pregnant when they married, having thought that the Pill-for-medical-reasons would keep her from pregnancy and no one would ever know about their sin.)
Actually, our daughter would have no qualms about providing services if she thought it meant the person might like her. However, I am very concerned about side effects (the doc assured me there were none, I smiled and nodded, knowing he was wrong) and is recommending it due to her very erratic cycle in hopes of settling the mood swings. Not sure they are mood swings so much as she decides to be angry or not. The antianxiety would address her extreme nervousness around people outside of me. But it would take away a lot of her as well.
Mumsee – Is the anti-anxiety med a particularly powerful one? The reason I ask is that I’ve known a couple people who took an anti-anxiety med (lorazepam, known as Ativan), but it didn’t seem to affect their personalities, it just helped them feel calmer inside.
Praises to God for His protective hand on 4th Arrow. She was trapped in our shed with a rattlesnake. Fortunately, there is a loft with a door at the top of the steps, so she could stay up there until hubby got there with a gun.
Snake dead now. Daughter safely out of shed. No pets or people injured. She’s the one with the numerous unsolved health issues. She did not need a rattlesnake bite on top of everything.
Mumsee try inositol for the anxiety. It is a b vitamin and will either wir k or it won’t. It it doesn’t there is no other reason to take it. A friend used it with her daughter.
Cheryl, her older sister just happened to go outside to get a box of crackers that had been left in our Suburban, which my mom had given us when we went to visit a couple days ago. 3rd Arrow heard 4th Arrow calling loudly from the shed at the opposite end of the yard. When she ran toward where her younger sister was, younger shouted, “Don’t come in here! Go get Mom!” (My husband was at work.)
I ran outside, heart pounding. Third Arrow called hubby. I called piano student’s mom — lessons were due to begin 25 minutes from then, and I didn’t want them coming until hubby could leave work and dispatch that snake. He arrived 10 minutes later as 3rd Arrow and I were standing helplessly in the yard, trying to comfort 4th Arrow and keep tabs on how she was doing in there. (She not surprisingly sounded pretty frantic at first, but calmed down a lot after we were out there waiting with her for my husband to come home.)
If 3rd Arrow hadn’t gone outside and heard her sister calling, 4th Arrow knew piano people would be coming tonight, so she planned to call out for help when they got here, so they could alert the rest of us in the house about the predicament.
I’m sure glad she didn’t have to wait for them to arrive!
Daughter later said it wasn’t too bad because she felt safe up in that enclosed loft. And I was fervently praying after hubby stepped into that shed with the gun. I think I jumped when the shot went off.
4th Arrow couldn’t bring herself to look at the dead rattler when she walked out. I don’t blame her! (She never saw it while it was alive, only heard it very near to the only entrance to the shed. It didn’t make noise until the cat came into the shed and started nosing around the hay bales that the snake was behind, and by the time daughter heard the rattling the first time, she was well into the shed — barefoot! — and too afraid to leave when she didn’t know exactly where it was, only that it was very close to the narrow doorway.)
I looked at the snake after hubby pronounced it good and dead, and it was a big one. I’ve never seen one before, but hubby has, so if he says it’s a big one (and he did), then I believe it! It sure made a huge sound when it rattled.
I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to bring myself to play maracas again — that snake sounded like a room full of rattling!
All’s well that ends well. But if you could say a little prayer for daughter, that would be so appreciated. She’s been having sleep disturbances lately, and I’m hoping this doesn’t add to them.
6 Arrows, I grew up around rattlesnakes and have seen a lot of them . . . but I’ve never been in any danger from one, and can’t quite imagine that. I’m glad she had presence of mind and clear thinking in what had to have been a frightening situation.
She thinks well on her feet. And she is my quiet one. I’m glad to know she had the lung capacity to belt out a good loud, sustained call for help. (And that one of the two narrow side-by-side doors to the shed was open. I’m not sure her voice would have been heard if she’d closed the shed doors behind her after she’d walked in, which she sometimes does so the cat doesn’t run out when it’s time to put him in for the night.)
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Mumsee—No, I never get tired of anyone asking for prayer for wisdom.
Which reminds me of how much I love reading Paul’s prayers in his letters. What a heart he had for those he was evangelizing and doing ministry for! We are blessed to read them and learn better how to pray for those we love.
E. M. Bounds has some very good books on prayer.
That is on my mind when I hear of studies that seem to exchange ideas that have less biblical basis than they should. Some are just fluffy and will not hurt us anymore than cotton candy. Others can really detour us or turn us from truth.
Just my two cents for what it is worth.
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We had a nice visit with the doctor. Daughter was lovely. He suggested four possibilities. Continue as we are, oral contraceptive to help regulate her, antianxiety meds, counseling. He also told daughter to knock it off. She says she can control it so he told her to do so. That will probably help significantly because he is a doctor. He is confident in what we are doing so he was leaning toward the continue as is but let me know the meds were just a phone call away if I thought it needed. Husband commented that the doc would not have been so nonchalant if it was his window getting hit. But I want her to control what she is able, then, if she still needs help, we can go that way. Thanks for praying and any continued prayer is appreciated.
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Mumsee, I’m assuming you wouldn’t consider the oral contraceptive route, but I want to specifically warn you against that one. I know so many people who’ve had problems with the Pill, sometimes continuing years after going off of it. It is so potent and so dangerous that I suspect the only reason it is still legal is that it does something Americans “need.” Further, I have heard of girls who are on the Pill for medical reasons but who find it easy to justify sex once they get into a relationship, because it is already risk-free. (I have a good friend who got a grandkid that way, because her son’s wife was a few months pregnant when they married, having thought that the Pill-for-medical-reasons would keep her from pregnancy and no one would ever know about their sin.)
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Actually, our daughter would have no qualms about providing services if she thought it meant the person might like her. However, I am very concerned about side effects (the doc assured me there were none, I smiled and nodded, knowing he was wrong) and is recommending it due to her very erratic cycle in hopes of settling the mood swings. Not sure they are mood swings so much as she decides to be angry or not. The antianxiety would address her extreme nervousness around people outside of me. But it would take away a lot of her as well.
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Mumsee – Is the anti-anxiety med a particularly powerful one? The reason I ask is that I’ve known a couple people who took an anti-anxiety med (lorazepam, known as Ativan), but it didn’t seem to affect their personalities, it just helped them feel calmer inside.
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Praises to God for His protective hand on 4th Arrow. She was trapped in our shed with a rattlesnake. Fortunately, there is a loft with a door at the top of the steps, so she could stay up there until hubby got there with a gun.
Snake dead now. Daughter safely out of shed. No pets or people injured. She’s the one with the numerous unsolved health issues. She did not need a rattlesnake bite on top of everything.
Praise God.
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6 Arrows, and it looks like it was also providential that she was able to alert people about her predicament or her father came along!
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Mumsee try inositol for the anxiety. It is a b vitamin and will either wir k or it won’t. It it doesn’t there is no other reason to take it. A friend used it with her daughter.
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Cheryl, her older sister just happened to go outside to get a box of crackers that had been left in our Suburban, which my mom had given us when we went to visit a couple days ago. 3rd Arrow heard 4th Arrow calling loudly from the shed at the opposite end of the yard. When she ran toward where her younger sister was, younger shouted, “Don’t come in here! Go get Mom!” (My husband was at work.)
I ran outside, heart pounding. Third Arrow called hubby. I called piano student’s mom — lessons were due to begin 25 minutes from then, and I didn’t want them coming until hubby could leave work and dispatch that snake. He arrived 10 minutes later as 3rd Arrow and I were standing helplessly in the yard, trying to comfort 4th Arrow and keep tabs on how she was doing in there. (She not surprisingly sounded pretty frantic at first, but calmed down a lot after we were out there waiting with her for my husband to come home.)
If 3rd Arrow hadn’t gone outside and heard her sister calling, 4th Arrow knew piano people would be coming tonight, so she planned to call out for help when they got here, so they could alert the rest of us in the house about the predicament.
I’m sure glad she didn’t have to wait for them to arrive!
Daughter later said it wasn’t too bad because she felt safe up in that enclosed loft. And I was fervently praying after hubby stepped into that shed with the gun. I think I jumped when the shot went off.
4th Arrow couldn’t bring herself to look at the dead rattler when she walked out. I don’t blame her! (She never saw it while it was alive, only heard it very near to the only entrance to the shed. It didn’t make noise until the cat came into the shed and started nosing around the hay bales that the snake was behind, and by the time daughter heard the rattling the first time, she was well into the shed — barefoot! — and too afraid to leave when she didn’t know exactly where it was, only that it was very close to the narrow doorway.)
I looked at the snake after hubby pronounced it good and dead, and it was a big one. I’ve never seen one before, but hubby has, so if he says it’s a big one (and he did), then I believe it! It sure made a huge sound when it rattled.
I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to bring myself to play maracas again — that snake sounded like a room full of rattling!
All’s well that ends well. But if you could say a little prayer for daughter, that would be so appreciated. She’s been having sleep disturbances lately, and I’m hoping this doesn’t add to them.
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6 Arrows, I grew up around rattlesnakes and have seen a lot of them . . . but I’ve never been in any danger from one, and can’t quite imagine that. I’m glad she had presence of mind and clear thinking in what had to have been a frightening situation.
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She thinks well on her feet. And she is my quiet one. I’m glad to know she had the lung capacity to belt out a good loud, sustained call for help. (And that one of the two narrow side-by-side doors to the shed was open. I’m not sure her voice would have been heard if she’d closed the shed doors behind her after she’d walked in, which she sometimes does so the cat doesn’t run out when it’s time to put him in for the night.)
God’s protection was evident on so many levels.
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Did you eat the snake?
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LOL — I thought you might ask as much. 🙂
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