| Author | Message | ||
| Jeannette (Jeannette) |
Thank you so much for your prayers and encouraging words. Thomas, I always picture Jesus holding my hand. and repeating Isa 41:10 I do feel peace and confidence that everything will be fine. I am focusing on the positives and trying to forget the bad. Again Thanks Jeannette | ||
| Colleentinker (Colleentinker) |
Jeannette, I just found your prayer request today. I will also be praying for you. Love, Colleen | ||
| Colleentinker (Colleentinker) |
Jeannette, I don't know if you can read a computer screen yet, but I'm praying for you. We'd love to hear how you're doing! I'd also like to hear how your husband is doing, Terry. Prayers for him also continue. Colleen | ||
| Terryk (Terryk) |
Thank you for your prayers and concern. Bob is doing good now he is getting a cold but has gone back to work. I hope we have a handle and can trust what the doctors say. Please continue prayers for the five years old with cancer Demetri and his family. We are all so blessed and we do not even know how much til we see sickness close up. I just want to praise God for sending his Son and giving us a chance to be with him after this life. | ||
| Lydell (Lydell) Registered user Username: Lydell Post Number: 558 Registered: 7-2000 |
Hi all. I'd appreciate prayers for my mom, Rebecca. She had a stroke yesterday. It appears that the right side of her brain has been affected. While she is able to understand others well, she is unable to communicate beyond immediate, short answers. I understand that often much speech for victims like this is regained within the first few days. I'm asking that you join me in prayers that this will be true for her as well. Thanks | ||
| Chris Registered user Username: Chris Post Number: 174 Registered: 7-2003 |
Lydell, I pray that the Lord will be with your mother, your family, and you. I pray that your mother will receive healing and experience a remarkable recovery from this stroke. I pray this in the name of Jesus. Lydell, for what it's worth, I'm the director for therapies at a Rehabilitation Hospital which has stroke rehab as a specialty. If you have questions that I might be able to help with, please let me know. | ||
| Lydell Registered user Username: Lydell Post Number: 559 Registered: 7-2000 |
Chris...thank you SO much! I have no doubt I will be asking questions! I remember our frustration in dealing with my dad after his stroke. He was cooperative in exercising. But it took a month or more before we realized that he was not depressed, but rather there had been a change in personality. There's just nothing easy about aging parents. My brother and mom are supposed to meet with a speech therapist today, and I imagine that is mainly for evalutaion. It's frustrating for me because she is 500 miles away, so I don't know exactly what is going on, if I need to go there, wait, etc. They disconnected the phone in her hospital room, at her request. And, honestly, not being able to communicate with her is getting to me today. We will be going up to Kentucky to see her, maybe as soon as Saturday. | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 1 Registered: 12-2003 |
I'm posting this for Lydell--she is with her mother who is still having problems with speech, etc. The doctor thinks she still has swelling in her brain. She has requested prayer for her mother, and I'd like to add that we should also pray for Lydell as she deals with this crisis in her family. Praise God for wasting nothing and redeeming everything! Colleen | ||
| Lucias Registered user Username: Lucias Post Number: 42 Registered: 1-2002 |
I am in need of prayer. I visited this forum regularly for a while, not so much lately but still off and on. My situation is this. I have a very well paying job at a large corporation, I love the job and was very comfortable with it. Recently I was asked/compelled to be party to ignoring a court order and not complying. Furthermore while everyone assured me that we were doing right no one would document the fact of what they asked me to do/not do. I sought out other employment options and pursued them. Some former associates and managers hired me. Some of these folks used to work at my current company. I have been subject to a lot of pressure in my current job, which I have not yet left but will in a few days, to believe that I am over reacting etc. I have not said where it is that I am going. Today the president of the company personally told me that if they find out I am going to the company I am going to they will file lawsuits to block it. They will name personally managers at the new company and the new company. I do not believe they are bluffing. So I'm at a real crossroads: 1. Stay with a company that will keep me but risks legal problems. 2. Take the current job and risk being forced out quickly due to legal nonsense. 3. Leave without another job. This is a very hard decision. The timing of the bad situation at work and the sudden arising of the new opportunity seems providential and it is as if I am supposed to take it. Yet the nerves it requires to move forward in the face of real threats is immense. I have learned that when you stand up and say you are not doing something and then use that as the reason why you get noticed. Folks bring a lot of pressure to bear because your actions shine a light on their actions and make them look bad. I guess this is my "Daniel" moment. I hope that this time God decides to shut the mouths of the lions because sometimes he doesn't for reasons entirely of his own. | ||
| Thomas1 Registered user Username: Thomas1 Post Number: 89 Registered: 4-2002 |
Lucias, I'm sure you have already been in deep prayer over this. God has a way of working in very strange ways. I would suggest you contact legal council A.S.A.P. and determine just what type of legal situation your present employer has over you and what you may have if he chooses to follow through on his threat. Be honest with him about the situation you were in. Do it soon. I'll be praying for you. <>< Thomas | ||
| Chris Registered user Username: Chris Post Number: 192 Registered: 7-2003 |
Lucias, I have prayed that God will guide you in the decisions that you must make. I also strongly encourage contacting legal counsel yet today. You need to lay out the whole thing to a lawyer, not just the issues realted to the new job, but any potential wrong doing at the company you are currently at. You do not want to end up being implicated in whatever is going on there and you need to find out from a lawyer how to innoculate yourself from this. Chris | ||
| Doug222 Registered user Username: Doug222 Post Number: 438 Registered: 3-2001 |
Lucias, It would seem that unless there is a noncompete clause (or similar restrictions) expressly stated in your employment contract, that your present employer does not have grounds to block your transfer. Like Thomas and Chris, I suggest you contact legal counsel ASAP. I have lifted up a prayer on your behalf. In His Grace Doug | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 19 Registered: 12-2003 |
Lucias, I ditto all of the above. Get some legal counsel, and remember that God moves in truth. I also am praying for you. Colleen | ||
| Sabra Registered user Username: Sabra Post Number: 7 Registered: 10-2001 |
Praying for you Lucias, I know that God will work it all out for good. I agree with legal council in addition to your Advocate-Jesus! This is just a test of faith, don't worry, God knows the outcome and He has His eye on you. 'consider the birds....' You're worth more than a bird!  | ||
| Freeatlast Registered user Username: Freeatlast Post Number: 161 Registered: 5-2002 |
I am quite concerned about Gracehound, please pray. Thank you! | ||
| Lydell Registered user Username: Lydell Post Number: 562 Registered: 7-2000 |
Hi all. I'm home for a handful of days. Will head back to Kentucky on Thursday. Mom is still making progress. It seems frustratingly slow. She still is unable to speak. Has been able to make 5 letter sounds, and can now hum a tiny bit. She generally is unable to write to communicate as well. Tho, 3 days ago she did write a short sentence in answer to a friend's question. It came close enough to being correct to allow her to communicate her thought. It is heart breaking to watch her try so hard, unsuccessfully, to speak. Still, I've been so thankful that she has had so little other physical imparement. And am believing that she will regain an ability to communicate. The Lord answered the prayer for a good speech therapist. Hers is just excellent! Really has the ability to connect with her and draw out her best efforts. I'm so thankful for her. Along with the return of the ability to speak, I'd appreciate prayers for her hip. She has had an ongoing problem this past year. Had an epidural for the problem days before the stroke and is unable to have another of these shots. The return of the hip problem would enormously complicate her recovery. The pain had returned a couple of days ago. Many thanks to those of you who have been praying for her! Prayer makes all the difference. | ||
| Sabra Registered user Username: Sabra Post Number: 8 Registered: 10-2001 |
So sorry Lydell. Praying for your mom and strength for you. | ||
| Colleentinker Registered user Username: Colleentinker Post Number: 26 Registered: 12-2003 |
Lydell, I'm praying for your mom and for you. I'm also continuing to pray for Gracehound. Colleen | ||
| Hoytster Registered user Username: Hoytster Post Number: 31 Registered: 9-2003 |
I would like prayers on behalf of the family of my deceased nephew. They have a very strong sense of privacy, so let's call the nephew Allen, and let God figure out that the prayers are really for _______'s family. Allen was 21. He died from a self-inflicted gun wound to the head. There was no note. The family has seized on this as a sign that it was a freak accident, not a suicide. It's impossible to know the truth, but they seem firmly in denial to me. Allen was brilliant, hard-working, ambitious. He was 14 when his father abandoned the family, and Allen went to work full-time to help support his mother and five younger siblings, dropping out of school and entering the building trades. At age 19, he looked up from his framer / roofer career and got his GED and enrolled in college. His family could give him very little financial support. Allen was torn because he felt that he had to help with his siblings, even though his college was an hour from home, and despite the fact that his mother had remarried and there was a new father in the house. I last saw Allen in December, when I took him and his sibs to see the most recent Lord of the Rings movie. He seemed to be the usual Allen, not particularly depressed. He did express concern about how well his siblings were being cared for, and his ambivalence about being away at school so much. Allen's parents are historical Adventists. His mother's pain must be accentuated because Allen had rejected her religion, was an avowed atheist. Allen and I discussed it a little, eating dinner before going to the movie that night. I told him that there were happier alternatives to what he had been taught growing up, and suggested that Allen check out other churches someday. The father began the funeral service by reading scripture from both testaments. It was mostly dark stuff, about there being no hope of after-life for the unrighteous. I can only think he was speaking to the remaining children, as a lesson, since there was no comfort there. I spoke next. After praising Allen and expressing my disappointment that he would not be doing the great things I had predicted for him, I observed that with God all things are possible, and that I hope and expect to know Allen again. The most disturbing part was the behavior of the three eldest remaining children, boys ages 17, 15 and 14. They were invited in turn to the front of the room to say something about Allen. They showed no emotion at all. The oldest boy said "Allen could be irritating sometimes, and pick on you... but I'll miss him. I'll have to take more responsibility now. That's it." The other boys said even less. I found myself thinking that I hope none of these boys ever has access to a firearm. I fear they are candidates for suicide, too. Please pray for this family. | ||
| Lydell Registered user Username: Lydell Post Number: 563 Registered: 7-2000 |
Hoytster, praying for the family. My brother committed suicide about 9 years ago. I know too well the gamut of emotions the family and friends are put through. I have heard someon refer to suicide as a "victimless crime". What a crock! Everyone who knew the person is victimized in some way. As you pointed out in the funeral, there is always that hope of seeing the person again. In the story of the prodigal son, the father began running to the son when he began to turn toward home. How long does it take to "begin to turn"? To me it seems the definition would be "only a fraction of a second". So we truly can never know. Suicide is an act of insanity. Only God can know when that time of insanity began and what was going on spiritually inside that person. My prayers are for you as well, that the Lord may open up an opportunity for you to minister to the family with a lasting, life-changing impact. |
