Ruth, 97, is the mother-in-law of our friend and sister, Marge; and Ralph is Marge’s husband. Ruth is in hospice now, she is passing away. This family needs our prayers.
O Lord our God, ease and comfort your daughter, Ruth, who, after a long life, is preparing to come home to you; and ease the burden of her son, Ralph, and give him strength and peace, as he takes care of necessary things. And be with your servant, Marge, and all her family, to comfort them. In Jesus’ name, amen.
My neighbor, Harlem, for whose recovery from cancer many of us prayed, tells me his experience had been written up in one of the medical journals. He’s feeling stronger by the day, putting back on some of the weight he lost, and wants to play some hoops when the weather gets a little warmer. I gave him a copy of The Cellar Beneath the Cellar to celebrate. Now we’ve got to find a basketball.
Meanwhile, this blog is giving me fits today.
Thursday’s usually my best day because that’s when my Newswithviews column is published, and it generates a lot of referrals to the blog. But not today. Not even one. Everything seems to be in working order, so I’m at a loss to understand the problem.
Ditto Facebook. As an experiment, my friend Susan generated two referrals this morning. They worked–which leaves me unable to explain why there are only those two and no more. The more I try to understand how social media work, the less I understand about the whole business.
And they say they want to merge our minds with computers??? That just may be the stupidest idea ever conceived by smart people.
I was able to get in touch with my Pogo friend, Mary, this morning, and she seemed in good spirits. It turns out that her neck is not broken, after all: the pain is coming from a pinched nerve. This is scheduled for treatment early in April. But of course the major issue is that she passed out and fell. That has to be looked into. Meanwhile, at least she’s able to play her Pogo games today and chat with her friends.
Father in Heaven, please protect our sister Mary, deliver her out of trouble, and heal her: for all healing comes indeed from you. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
My Pogo friend, Mary, whom so many of you prayed for the other night, is home from the hospital and back on her computer–albeit with a broken neck. Actually, she had fusion surgery there, some 15 years ago, and it has worn out. It will need to be repaired. But for the time being, she’s back home, wearing a safety collar, and very grateful for your prayers.
Give God the glory, and give Him our thanks.
I like to relax by playing Pogo games, online, on the Pogo site: and I request your prayers for one of the players, my friend Mary, who was taken to the hospital the other day after she fell and was unconscious for several hours. None of us knows exactly what’s wrong, because she lives alone and hasn’t been able to return to her computer to tell us.
I know it’s only a game site, but when you play with the same people every day, you get attached to them. So please join me in prayer for Mary.
O Father in Heaven, please come swiftly to help Mary, and heal her, and enable her to come home from the hospital. She has an assortment of health problems, and she needs her Shepherd. O Lord our God, in Jesus’ name, please deliver this woman out of trouble. Amen.
Erlene says our prayers are already working for her, which we’re all very glad to hear, and has requested this hymn, Have Thine Own Way, Lord, sung by Jim Reeves. And we’re very glad to post it.
Remember, everybody, especially if you’re new to this blog–we take both hymn requests and prayer requests, and happy to do it.
Our friend Erlene’s younger son, Eric, needs our prayers. He has chronic pain, owing to a failed shoulder surgery. The drugs prescribed by the doctor did not have the desired effect, so he has turned to marijuana. His mother worries about this because he is a new believer, still green and tender in his faith.
Father in Heaven, hear our prayers for your servant and our sister, Erlene, and her son. Alleviate his pain, and protect him from harm. Protect his faith, O Lord, and deliver him out of all danger. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Father in heaven, be swift to help your servant, our sister in Christ, Shannon B., whose mother, Katy, has just been admitted to the hospital: who has been afflicted with cancer for 18 years. She is very sick, she is afraid, and she needs you–needs you now, O Lord. Hear our prayers, Father, and heal and comfort Shannon’s mother. We pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.
Our sister Linda Sorci has requested this hymn–Sometimes Alleluia, sung by Chuck Girard–and along with it, let’s keep praying for her: because Our Lord Jesus Christ at various times taught us to be persistent in our prayers, and because Linda and her husband Michael need our prayers right now.
O Lord Our God, deliver your servants out of trouble! In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Our sister Linda Sorci’s husband, Michael, already battling cancer, has developed unrelated complications and she has asked for our prayers.
O Lord Our God, deliver your servants, Linda and Michael, out of trouble, out of sickness. Hear our prayers, O Father, and speedily help them! In Jesus’ name, Amen.