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Prayer Requests 2-8-24

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“I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord.” – George Mueller

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  3. Since this morning, or maybe since last night, my heart has felt especially burdened for my Chickadee, and I have been crying almost every time I think of her and her situation.

    Although the transgender matter is a large part of it, what has also been breaking my heart for her is that she has told me that she felt like a second-class granddaughter to my parents, and feels that she was a disappointment to them and to her father. Believe me, in no way did my parents feel that way, nor did Hubby. And she definitely was not considered a second-class granddaughter. She was merely the younger of three, which resulted in some differences, but only due to age, not affection.

    As I told her, Gramma (my mom) would have been devastated to learn that Chickadee felt that way. I am nearly devastated by it! My sweet, sensitive daughter has felt that way for all these years, and is only now talking about it. It makes me feel like I have failed her.

    This conversation came up between the two of us (Nightingale was upstairs at the time) on Christmas, and was not the first time she had mentioned feeling that way. The first time, sometime within the past few years, I had assured her that she was as loved and as precious to her grandparents as her older sister and cousin were, and I had sent a follow-up email to remind her of what I had said, and maybe added a bit more. This last time, I repeated what I had said before, but with more detail and more emphatically, with a couple stories to illustrate how loved she was.

    The thing is, these feelings of hers have been ingrained since childhood, and she is now 31 years old, so those skewed memories are kind of hard-wired in her. (Evidenced by the fact that she still felt that way even after our earlier talk.) I can’t tell you how much it breaks my heart to know that my beloved younger daughter feels this way, and has felt this way for years upon years. (It also illustrates how she keeps her thoughts “close to the vest”, that as close as we have been, I did not realize this.)

    Please pray for her – for salvation, emotional and mental healing, and however else you might think of. There’s a term that I hesitate to use (“healing of the memories”), because I think the term is used for something kind of weird in some Christian circles, but I pray for God to heal her memories, to highlight the good memories, and may those she misunderstood be “rewritten” in her memory in a better, more accurate light. 

    Sorry this is so long. I didn’t intend to get into the details, but it was hard to explain without explaining what I meant. God bless!

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  4. She has an enemy who likes to distort her thinking, as we all have. Plus, she has people around her that can benefit from her continuing in that kind of thinking and they may be encouraging it for their own use. It is sad. None of it is beyond God’s redemption, of course. Prayers continue.

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  6. Sometimes all we can do is simply love them.

    Healing of memories is one of the ways we pray for people out here. It’s used as an inner healing technique and can be very powerful for many.

    It has healed many elements of my personal life and heart as well.

    Yeah, sharing stories to remind her of how much she has been and is loved are important. We just don’t hear that enough–no matter how old we are.

    Blessings.

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  7. Kathaleena makes a good point, sadly, on how she may be around others who support her insecurities and doubts about her family. Counselors also can sometimes encourage people to go further down those roads, whether they be true or not (and perhaps only assumed by helpers to be true).

    Praying for some openings and clarity as she spends more time with her true family who love her and have her best interests at heart.

    -dj

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  8. To that end, please also pray that somehow she can start spending more time with me. I only see her once a month (but with skipped months for various reasons), for a few hours.

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  9. In addition to praying for the healing of memories, there can also be given by God a gift of forgetfulness I know God is always forward looking and does not want people stuck in the past hurts and wounds. And do we ever hear enough about how much God loves us? In times of feeling a bit neglected by busy family members, I need only consider the great and perfect love Gpd has for me, and I quickly feel more than better. I pray that Chickadee can soon feel the perfect love of God, that it would be so real thae she forgets the hurts of the past.🙏

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