Prayers

It is an odd little community, this online world that I visit each day.  Blogging and social networking sites have both enlarged my experience of the universal Church, while at the same time making a big world much smaller.  I have made a dear friends…met many kindred spirits…encouraged one another in the struggles of mommyhood…prayed for unsaved friends and family members…and discussed practical theology…

All with women I have never met “in real life.”  If it were not for the words and pictures that fill my computer screen each day, I would know nothing of their day-to-day lives.

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And, yesterday, that small window was filled with one description after another of unimaginable grief, pain, loss and suffering.

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“The Lord is near to the brokenhearted
and saves the crushed in spirit.”
~Psalm 34:18

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Would you please join me in praying for these ladies, and their families?

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Penny Franklin – who lost her husband just after Christmas

Tricia – who lost her husband just before Christmas

Joanne Heim – suffered a stroke yesterday morning, and, as of this writing, has already undergone 2 surgeries to prevent/correct further damage.

Steph – who lost her home (and family dog) in a fire yesterday morning…Praise the Lord that her family is safe!

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I love the Lord, because he has heard
my voice and my pleas for mercy.
Because he inclined his ear to me,
therefore I will call on him as long as I live.
The snares of death encompassed me;
the pangs of Sheol laid hold on me;
I suffered distress and anguish.
Then I called on the name of the Lord:
“O Lord, I pray, deliver my soul!”
~Psalm 116:1-4