Prayer Request

I'm sorry you are dealing with those things Melissa! I will be praying for you!

And Bethany, for your sister too. I pray for all of you guys anyway, you know.

Goodness so many in need of prayers lately! Good thing there are plenty to go around!

Mel that really sucks, I'm so sorry there's all that going on, I'll be praying.
In other news I have a lot of contacts in school districts here if you wanted to move to Cincinnati

They went to counseling before and I'm not sure why they stopped probably money.
In other news I'm like less than poor and I am so overwhelmed with budgeting right now that I just want to give up. :sigh:

Got ya covered.

The son of an old family friend is a CHP motorcycle officer out of Marin county. Yesterday, he was in a bad accident while responding to another accident. His aorta was severed and he has two broken arms. The last we heard he was in critical condition. Could you please pray for him and his family. His name is Todd and his wifes name is Laura, I don't remember the names of his sons (they are both in their late teens and early 20's) and his parents names are Jerry and Ginny.

you got it katy.

Wow, scary. Yes, praying.

for sure Katy.

Absolutely Katy. Also, is that the police department that the TV show Chips was based off of?

Yes California Highway Patrol.

Thanks for the prayers guys.. the surgery to repair is aorta was successful yesterday and they are doing surgery on his arms today.

Also, my brother and sister in law reached a settlement and I think the divorce is almost final. It is kind of working out in Nate's favor in the fact that he will only be paying 3 years of spousald support (she was asking for 10, and they were only married 6 years) and that she is staying in the house, but she pretty much is going to have to start making the payments or it will go into forclosure. So, in the end, not really a great conclusion... but I guess it's as good as it can get in the bad situation. Oh! The big news is that she agreed to make Nate a psychological parent to Pammeigh (basically meaning he is the only father she's known and right now all she knows is that he's her dad) so that if something happens to Jen, Nate won't have to fight her parents for custody. Anyway, please continue to pray for the girls... they are having a hard time dealing with the limited time they get to spend with Nate and are often fighting over his attention. He's doing the best he can and even Jen is starting to notice the issues and sending the girls with him more often.

Done

That's mostly great news Katy! Not that it's still hard on the girls but that Jen isn't being such a wench (or at least isn't getting away with being one) anymore.

Apparenty this is prayer request week for me.. dad is starting to feel bad again. Basically, stomach aches and bad heart burn... which is how it started before. He has a catscan or something scheduled soon. Please pray that it doesn't get much worse... and especially that it doesn't lead to a full blown attack like last october.

Eeeks, that's scary, Katy.

Yikes! Praying Katy!

If y'all don't mind, keep me and Megan in your prayers this week. The wedding is Saturday! (Holy Crap!) And we're so overwhelmed with stuff that we haven't done (or even begun to do), that it's kind of freaking me out. And now I seem to be getting sick (my voice is almost gone). I have no doubts or fears about marrying Megan (amazing, actually, how sure I am about that). But the details that go into the actual ceremony and reception is daunting.

Thanks!

Dave

You got it Dave! Weddings can be overwhelming, but I'm glad how much peace and clarity you have on the woman you're marrying. That is SO much more important than a perfect day, knowing that you're heading into a marriage with a person that you are sure about.

I figured you must be REALLY busy and stressed out cuz you inexplicably forgot to send my invitation.

TheGreat&TerribleBob wrote:I figured you must be REALLY busy and stressed out cuz you inexplicably forgot to send my invitation.

he doesn't really like us, he just uses us to pray for him.

Maybe we should be vindictive and ask that our prayers be withdrawn.

we could, but I won't....despite his dissing of us, I like him.

I just found out that a friend of mine from Michigan lost his wife to cancer yesterday. We haven't been in touch in nearly three years so I didn't even know she was sick, I feel awful for him.

If you could say a prayer for George that he finds strength and comfort in her passing as I found out she has been very sick and struggling for two years. They were best friends and both went through bad first marriages to find each other. She was a great person with lots of energy and spunk and shared it all with everyone she met.

I'm going to miss her.

I feel like a terrible friend.

Pete falling out of touch with someone when you're in different states living very different lives (married vs unmarried, kids no kids, 1 job vs 28,948 jobs) does NOT make you a bad friend at all.

That being said, I'll be praying for all of you

Life is that way, Pete.
Don't feel badly.

Katykc wrote:

Bethany wrote:If you can pray for Sharen and her family. Apparently my nieces are stirring up trouble and trying to pit their dad against my sister and Sharen and Jeff had a knock down drag out fight last night. She tried calling me because she wanted to come stay at my house.
She is talking about completely detaching herself from the girls and "treating them like a real wicked step mother would" and I tried to talk her out of it. So I don't know what's going to happy only that every single person in that family is so hurt and afraid and taking it out on each other instead of pulling together :sigh:

is there any kind of resolution on the forefront? i know it's only been a few days.

So Jeff went away for the weekend to West Virginia to see his friend Ty from the Marines. Ty's good for Jeff in a way because he's very Jesus centered and has a stable (but of course not perfect) marriage.
By the time Jeff left he was throwing around the divorce word.
When he returned he and Sharen sat down and she told him she wouldn't let him divorce her because they hadn't even begun to work on their relationship.

Sharen called me today asking me for my schedule this week and next because they are going to start going to counseling together. Apparently my dad also told Jeff that he should get Sharen to get on the pill to help regulate her hormones so she isn't so irrationally emotional.
To be honest the last part really pisses me off. I feel like both my dad and Jeff dismiss a lot of what Sharen says as crazy and therefore feel they can throw out everything she brings up as a result of her crazy hormones. While I agree that getting on a hormone regulation plan would be helpful I think that it's shitty that our dad would broach that with Jeff before bringing it up with Sharen directly or even with our mom or I to have her bring it up with Sharen.

But it's a good step I think. Everyone, including Jeff's birth and step mom and dad, girlfriends and first wife have left him. So when the going gets tough Jeff assumes that his loved one is going to get going and I think a lot of this is him taking preemptive action. But Sharen is fighting for him and for their marriage. While she's not perfect and she has her own junk to clean up too I think that is HUGE in regards to Jeff's instinct to cut and run.

So there's an update and if you could pray about all that and for the complete renewal of their marriage and a centered focus on Jesus. (They are going to a Christian marriage counseler. Jeff didn't want to go through our church because he's just getting to know some of the staff and he really admires them a lot and is scared of losing face. Speaking of irrational... but I'm happy they're going to counseling period)