A Cup of CassAng.

Friday!

Woohoo, it’s Friday. My weekend is promising much busy-ness though, so I guess I am not as excited as all that. Today, I have roughly the same goals as yesterday:

Blog on my main blogs and here
Paid Blogging
Clean off the top of the dryer (that’s the next area after the freezer)
Even up the sidebars here (we need to talk about this)
Start the 101 list
Read Job 2 and post about it
School
Read a bit
Stitch a bit

Also, dh will be home since he can’t drive, and trying to figure out what to do about the van, so I will be a beck and call girl today. If he is particularly (needy is not the right word) (engaging??) most of this other stuff may slide.

Lord, I thank you for this day. And for my friend, who pulls confessions from me before I have finished my first cup of coffee. How in the world do we read each other so well from so far away?? Only through You! I thank You for my husband. Lord, he’s not his normal self, and I know he has a lot on his mind. And I know that he doesn’t turn to You when he gets overwhelmed, so I really don’t know what or how to pray for him. I guess I just say … Lord, whatever he needs, please supply, and You know what that is. Help me to be a help meet for him.
In Jesus name,
Amen

Gotta get back in the saddle

Today, I need to get back in the blogging routine. I want to blog here, on Musings and on Knits. And I want to do some paid blogging. I want to get that darn freezer corner cleaned out. I want to stitch some more. I want to start my 101 list. I want to brainstorm a list of things to do for this site, but I need us to be together at keyboard for that. And I want to do some Bible reading besides what I do with the kids.

Also, my freaking face hurts from sinus, and I have just had to explain to my husband how “forgetting” a simple request for two months makes me feel. It is true that men and women are wired differently. he had no idea that the underlying problem bothered me so much. Sigh. And I am so sleepy that it isn’t even funny.

Lord, we thank you for this day. I ask you to encourage and strengthen us as we go through the day. There is much to do, as always.
In Jesus Name,
Amen

Knock, Knock!

Is this thing on? You know what we need? We need to pray.

Lord, you know the needs we have, and I ask You to meet them, because we know you are All Sufficient.

In Jesus Name,
Amen

Prayer For Cass

Dear Loving Father,

Today is a day of many mixed emotions for Cass. I pray that You surround her with the love and comfort that reaches into the deepest parts of her heart. I know that the next few days will be quite difficult and conflicting for Cass. I cannot be there to hug her, Lord. I just ask that You do that enough for the both of us. There is much to be prayed for today. There are things that might go unsaid in our prayers, but You know that they are lurking in my heart and in Cass’s heart. Please take those unsaid prayers and work the magic that is only Yours. Lord, we just love You! We don’t know why things are they way they are or why they end up the way they do. We do know that in the end it is all for good. For that, we are thankful. In Your Most Amazing Name, amen.

Prayer for Wednesday

Lord, please be with us today. I know that I know that I know, You are already on the other side of the situations that prevail in our lives right now. But it’s hard right here in the middle of it. We need Your firm and guiding Presence today to keep us uplifted and on track. Lord, You are marvelous. Lord, You are Good. Lord, you are Love. We can only love because You have loved us.

Father, I am going to specifically pray for my aunt today. Lord, please be a constant Companion to her today. I know You always are, but today, especially, the storms of life assail her.Father, I wish I could have known what and who made those two women what they are. Three, if You count the one who is already with You. I think it has something to do with the Love.

I really try hard not to pray for people to get what they deserve, because I certainly do not want what I know I deserve, but please spank that uncle of mine into semi-decent behavior for just a little while, so that will be one less thing for Aunt to deal with.

Lord, be with those who woke up to devastation this morning. It seems like years of work were washed away. At the same time, we know that the land will be more fertile for years to come. Preserve life, Dear Lord, because everything else is replaceable.

Lord, be with Ang. today, as she tries to reclaim he house. She’s been working on sandbags and such, and things have slipped a bit. Keep her focussed, Father. I pray the same for myself. I’m having a hard time concentrating, and I am getting overwhelmed. Lord, there comes a point that we can do no more. That’s hard to accept, but we are both at that point. Help us to admit that, and just do the next thing. It still amazes me how parallel You have made our lives. It amazes me that there is always one of us able to pray. You amaze me.

Father, I thank You also for the specific examples you have set before me in the past few months: life and death, blessing and cursing, water and vinegar, love and indifference. I want to choose life. I want to bless. I want to be water. I want love. I want You.

In Jesus Name,
Amen