Prayer Requests

Here is a video off a friend's blog. I hope you get as much out of this as I did. The song is by LifeHouse called "Everything"


I saw a friend today I haven't seen since I my wedding. She is one of the most gentle, tender hearted, compassionate people. By the time we were done eating, I felt all that time shrink to nothing. She was only in town because her 34 year old fiance was having bypass surgery. I ask for prayers for Jennifer and Kelly. We were a sad little pair from afar, me nausous and fatigued, her weary and tired from sitting by the man she loves bedside. Another dear friend last night in our small group lost the benefit of a spirutal mentor in her life due to him passing on to meet our Savior, Lord please be with the McElroy family. I hear of a familly who last one of their 7 year old twins in a drowning accident. I can't imagine the pain that mother is feeling. One friend while in pain herself tries to be there for her sister in law suffering from a rare kind of cancer. There are some people at work in an immoral situation and I feel saddened and I want to help, to but it's not place, so maybe by leaving it at that, I can lay that before the Father and know He will work on their hearts.


So many other people hurting, facing pain, loss and worry in their lives. We all have this journey with Christ. A Jesus who woes us against satan who tempts us.I wonder at time if I give more than I take. I pray to not be self involved in my own worries, to give comfort and love to those hurting around me. I don't know sometimes if hearing about the hurts of others should just stop with me, so it's not gossip. Do I have the obligation to ask as many people as I can to pray as God hears our hearts and will listen as more and more people beseach him? Not disguise my concern as a veiled attempt to judge or pass on personal information that would disrespect or in any way judge someone else. I try to respect other people's privacy, to ask in love and kindness. To be available for God should the opportunity arise to give His words, His truth and His love. God is not one glaring down from heaven waiting to condemn. He wants to show us in love, a better way.

Short ( well, for me anyway) today, I have to get more sleep....