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Prayer Requests 11-1-17

It’s Wednesday, so don’t forget Ajisuun and The Gambia.

Anyone else?

Psalm 85

1 You, Lord, showed favor to your land;
    you restored the fortunes of Jacob.
2 You forgave the iniquity of your people
    and covered all their sins.
3 You set aside all your wrath
    and turned from your fierce anger.

4 Restore us again, God our Savior,
    and put away your displeasure toward us.
5 Will you be angry with us forever?
    Will you prolong your anger through all generations?
6 Will you not revive us again,
    that your people may rejoice in you?
7 Show us your unfailing love, Lord,
    and grant us your salvation.

8 I will listen to what God the Lord says;
    he promises peace to his people, his faithful servants—
    but let them not turn to folly.
9 Surely his salvation is near those who fear him,
    that his glory may dwell in our land.

10 Love and faithfulness meet together;
    righteousness and peace kiss each other.
11 Faithfulness springs forth from the earth,
    and righteousness looks down from heaven.
12 The Lord will indeed give what is good,
    and our land will yield its harvest.
13 Righteousness goes before him
    and prepares the way for his steps.

16 thoughts on “Prayer Requests 11-1-17”

  1. Good (early) morning! Thanking God for coffee today!

    It’s Ann–I’m on my cell….

    Thanks so much for praying for Dakota–we got to bring him home from hospital last night. Unfortunately, he’s still having bloody diarrhea — so we were up every two hours overnight–but I’m so relieved he’s going to survive.
    He is much more playful now than when we had to hospitalize him last Friday. Even the expression in his eyes looks better.

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  3. Cheryl – Thank you for your comment last night. You certainly do have a point that her presence isn’t as “necessary” as it was when The Boy was younger. He can still be a handful at times, though, especially at bedtime when he doesn’t want to settle down. And yet, I tend to deal with that more than Chickadee does anyway.

    At this point in time, I must admit that what I “need” her for most of all is to take care of Janie. I love Janie, & I know she will eventually be a great dog, but for right now, I am fighting feeling resentful about taking care of her when Nightingale is working during the day. (When she works on school days, I take care of Janie, & then get The Boy from the school bus & watch him for a while before she gets home.)

    Nightingale has remarked on how similar Janie & The Boy are. They both have a lot of energy, & they both need lots of attention, wanting to be with their peeps all the time. And they are both very cute & sweet.

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  5. I would like to request prayer for a work friend of mine, K, and her daughter H. I worked with K at Amazon until she left to teach high school, and now I mostly keep up with her on FaceBook. I’ve only met her daughter H once, but she is one of the good ones–works hard at her studies, no drugs, no real worry for her parents.

    H is 18, lives at home and has started attending college. To avoid student debt, H got a job. She was hired by a small firm to sit with and care for an elderly woman on the weekends from 8am-8pm. She trained with them for 2 days, but before H could show up for her first shift, the firm called her and told her she was fired—because she is black. They actually told her that was the reason. The family of the elderly woman didn’t want a black person caring for her.

    K is livid. She is livid and heartbroken at the way her daughter is being introduced to adulthood and the world of work. And she doesn’t even know the name of the firm, because H wants to keep it quiet and won’t tell her. K is a woman of action, and is not taking it well.

    This could go a couple of ways. But however the incident is handled, it is my prayer that God will prevent this incident from causing resentment, discouragement or bitterness in H that could color her entire future. And I also pray the same for K, and that she will handle this with wisdom.

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  6. Ouch. Hopefully, she will see it for what it is and not for what it is not.

    Prayer here as sixteen year old is home again with all her new meds and best attitude and a large weight gain from the meds. (Twenty pounds in ten days????) We will be making adjustments. God’s wisdom and love are much needed. Thanks.

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  9. Debra, it doesn’t sound as though the firm is at fault on this one. If the family doesn’t want the caregiver, the firm can’t insist on her being there anyway. I assume she will be eligible to work in other homes?

    My daughter does in-home caregiving, and she knows that not every client/caregiver is a good match. Some clients (or families) want only men, some only women, and sometimes the personality isn’t a good match. If this family has a senile elderly relative who hates black people, then it isn’t a good match–but that does not reflect badly on the company, as long as they are still willing to use her for a different home when another availability comes through.

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  10. Kizzie, I really don’t think it’s fair to bring a puppy into the household unless all who will be caring for her are onboard with doing so. I had a housemate when I got Misten–I was already scheduled to get a puppy when I got the housemate, and I told her about the coming puppy when I interviewed her. But puppy Misten was totally my responsibility, and that was as it should have been. Had I worked a few hours a day outside the home, then I would have needed to work out a plan for her care while she was too young to be left alone for a few hours. I think it would be perfectly fair to ask Nightingale to make other arrangements until the dog is fully grown if it is too much care for you. I wouldn’t want care for another puppy myself. I only took Misten when she was still a puppy since I worked from home and figured it was a good opportunity to get the whole life of a dog. Had I worked outside the home, I would have gotten an adult dog, and my next dog will probably be an adult. But puppy care shouldn’t really be your problem.

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  11. Michelle – He is at school for most of the time when Nightingale works first shift, & if he doesn’t have school, then Chickadee is here (with rare exceptions).

    Cheryl – Nightingale should have taken into account that I would be taking care of Janie on first shift days once school started, but that didn’t occur to her at the time, as she got her after last school year, & Chickadee was around those days. She/we cannot afford to pay anyone to dog sit, or anything like that.

    At this point, Janie doesn’t have as many accidents as she did she she was smaller, so it’s not as “bad” as it seemed in the beginning. But also at this point in time, processing grief, & new responsibilities & problems, have me more stressed, which adds to my feeling about taking care of Janie.

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  16. Sounds like that health care firm could have been a little better at explaining that situation. I also wonder why she wasn’t told they would call her for another client when they needed someone. What a sad and hurtful thing!

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