Pray for my daughter, Teigan, and for me, that we are free from her abusive mother for good. Thank you.

I would be grateful for prayers asking our Lord to send His merciful & miraculous healing to save my husband, Dave, and cure him of cancer. I am trying to give it all to God, but the fears are always lurking.

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During this Christmas season, please join me in praying for all of our wayward friends and family who need to find their way to Jesus. There are so many otherwise “good” people who then never give God any thought. I fear for those I know.

Also prayers for an intelligent, generous and once highly capable friend who sadly is now deep in the throes of Dementia.
Prayers also for his wife who is personally providing every bit of his care, sadly, much to her own detriment.

Prayers for those who are alone in this world.

Prayers for PEACE.

Please pray that God eases my dads heart and mind after the recent passing of mom. Thank you

My prayer is for the country that is being invaded by Islam whose stated mission is the destruction of this country as we know it. Any and all who are practicing muslims must be returned to their country of origin regardless of citizenship . That honor must be revoked for any who do not adhere to the constitution of the Unit4ed States.
God save American.’

I wanted to post an update about my daughter and the contamination OCD she suffers from.

She has been able to decrease the amount of time spent washing her hands. It is still too long but there has been progress.

Please continue to pray for her healing. I am thankful that people care. May God bless the prayer warriors here.

We safely made it to VA, yesterday evening thank God.
Traffic… ugh.

Waking before dawn, I wandered around the house this morning, silent against the lights of the Christmas tree’s gentle glow, marveling at how the scene of kids piled around in sleeping bags or air mattresses, is the same as over 50 yrs ago when WE were the ones piled up around my grandmother’s house.
The people, the tree and the decorations are different, but the link in the chain is the same.
Couldn’t stop the tears of Joy…

I thank God for allowing us this gift of simple togetherness. Thank You for Your Gift of Salvation.
Thank You, God, for Jen quietly and peacefully sleeping nearby.

I humbly, fervently pray for all the people who have come here seeking help for themselves and their families. May God cover you all within His protection, grant you His mercy and complete healing. I pray He eases the pain of those affected, and the troubled minds and worried hearts of those who love and care for them. Give them strength, Lord. Give them patience to know You hear their cries, and You WILL answer them, in Your time in Your way. I believe in Your miracles.
In Jesus’ precious name Amen.

Here is a prayer request CTH member, Anonymousaspossible, posted on the Still Hour on 12/26/25. I’m reposting it here so more people see it.

Still Hour link: https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/11/29/the-still-hour-part-8/comment-page-2/#comment-12298349

…
“Anonymousaspossible
I’ve never posted for prayers before, but I have a request today. Please pray for my brother Rob. He is 62 with terminal cancer. It arrived on his doorstep only 6 months ago. The pain was the indicator. He went to the doctor, after delayed approvals for tests he needed to pinpoint the problem, he found out he had a tumor on his liver, to close to an artery for removal. It had spread to his lymph nodes. Chemo to shrink the tumor and relieve the pain. Chemo has not helped at all. He’s lost so much weight and continues to go to the hospital for pain blockers. All hope of a recovery is gone. Only our Lord and Savior can perform a miracle at this time. I hope you will join me in praying for him. He was so full of life, always giving of himself. Lord, please relieve him of his pain and if you would in Jesus name find a cure, erase his tumor and restore his life. In Jesus name we pray, Amen.”

This is more of a question but prayers are always welcome. My husband was a combat veteran and I think that what he went through made his death more prolonged and challenging for us. We were unchurched due to many reasons including too sick to go, appalled at all the money grubbing at church to where we felt church was for rich people only, plus our experiences didn’t fit church dogma so we didn’t belong and nobody at church deserving of our confidence to help us resolve this issue, plus there’s simply too much negative people stuff occurring in congregations as in outrageous people stuff, plus for me – since I wasn’t raised with any spiritual training at all whatsoever I felt that much of what what I learned as an adult was done out of fear or superstition and I just always felt like I just couldn’t get it right. So I do enjoy learning on this site from all the areas where seemingly everyone is more educated, smarter and have healthier memories 🥴.

Trying to resolve this issue of not having sufficient support in the dying process I thought I coined the term “death doula” only to plug it into the search bar and find that it is a real thing. My husband had an angel, a grim reaper, and one or more demonic entities attacking him at his weakest. This went on for most of a year . We had to fight it alone. Sometimes I was afraid to pray aloud because I had no backup if the demon decided to go all exorcist on me. Even the “chaplains” provided by hospice really aren’t prepared to help with this situation and due to poor timing with other strangers present we weren’t able to determine if this individual had the belief system or capacity to help with what we were dealing with. They seem to think you just need a fair weather companion on occasion to exchange pleasantries. A death doula may also have a standard medical view that the spiritual is all a delusion and just want to silence it with too much psych meds. I did administer the medication when needed but not excessively. Perhaps some would believe that perception of any spiritual battle at all means I didn’t administer enough psych medication. He and I battled the spiritual together to the best of our ability. I was not spiritually prepared for this death and since he passed I have been sicker than ever and mostly bedridden which is a real problem and I wonder if that demon body snatcher trying to control my husband transferred to me. Granted I have a surprising amount of major medical issues but being this flat on my back this long is too much and I have even missed doctors appointments and medical procedures in the last couple months because there’s no help.

Late in life my husband remembered things from Vietnam that he had forgotten years before we met. He sheltered me from most of the gruesome events unless (on one occasion) he thought it would help me. The hospice workers think that my husband fell because I neglected him. No I needed to rest. He fell because he was trying to knock that demon off his body. He knew what he was doing. I suspect this is super common and we had nobody to share with or pray with that was “equally yoked.” (Thinking about how judgmental and dismissive church people can be.) Anyone have more information on this? Resources? If I am correct in my beliefs if combat veterans were able to receive appropriate and respectful spiritual guidance and support they could die sooner and not suffer so much for so long. (Yes I am trying to appeal to the cost effective part to alleviate the torture part.). This is really a tricky touchy subject and we get prickly about it and as naturally more reserved people we really didn’t and I still don’t have people in my real life that I wish to share this with – just here.

After his last fall my husband was put in a care facility after the hospital. During his last visit to the hospital he sustained new injuries that I couldn’t get answers to what happened when I wasn’t there. The way things are these days I could totally believe that hospital security used him as a punching bag when I wasn’t there. Those guys have lost their humanity and they’re always looking for trouble. I would show up and photograph the new bloody wounds on his face, arms, hands – just everywhere. All medical circles the wagons.
One day I entered my
husband’s

Please pray for Victor Davis Hanson … https://x.com/i/trending/2005656254094402045?s=20

Prayers for all…the lonely, those in pain, those fearful, those fighting battles, the unloved, the lost, the uncertain…those who need loving…

God, hear our prayers for these souls that suffer amongst us…bring them peace and joy. Fill their lives with what they need, while we thank Thee for the gracious bounty and fellowship you have provided us with. Amen.

In a special way, please hear the prayers of our fellow Treepers, that have need of your comfort and divine Presence, Amen.

Hello my dear fellow Sojourners in this pilgrim land …

I’m asking our Lord to give you all His richest blessings and favor in the upcoming year.

I want to be more present here in days ahead – if only to offer encouragement.
We all need that to persevere with endurance as we run our race to the Finish line.
Till God calls us home.

I love you all.
🙏🏻 ✝️ 🙏🏻

With the busy holiday season behind, I’m revisiting the prayer requests here – and lifting them up to our Gracious God.

(For Andrew S, who posted a few days before Christmas:)

Andrew, I’m praying that God will bring a good friend into your life.
Hopefully, this new year, 2026.
If not this year, He knows when (and who!)

In the meanwhile, may God draw you close to Himself.
He will provide and minister to all of your needs.

I’m leaving an article written by a pastor in Ireland, Seth Lewis.
It’s very comforting – especially when we consider the Lord Jesus Christ experienced every pain that we do.
He knows, Andrew. And, He loves you.

Blessings,

**

The Loneliness Of Being Rejected 
Loneliness doesn’t wait for an invitation. Sometimes, it doesn’t even wait for you to be alone.
Quietly, it can gnaw on you, even in a crowd.

It could be in a thousand stony eyes that look through you, in feet that automatically move around you, or in heads that nod polite acknowledgement and move on quickly because your existence didn’t matter enough to engage their conscious thought.

The solitary loneliness of the wilderness would be kinder. Fresher.
But the worst kind of loneliness of all is the loneliness of rejection.
To be known, and seen, and still cast aside.
To be intentionally marooned.

At least with a crowd you can imagine that maybe if you had the right opportunity and started the right conversations the strangers around you might eventually become friends.
Not so with the rejection. The betrayal. The abandonment. They did know. And you’re still alone.

I’ve felt the cold wind of a literal door slamming in my face, the sudden full stop ending what I had thought was a good story.
I’ve heard the accusations ringing in my ears—if I listen I can hear them still—and I’ve seen the wavering doubt in the eyes of people I trusted as they weighed up the case against me.
I’ve been marooned in rooms full of people. I’d rather be dropped in the desert. It wouldn’t be as lonely.

And I know I’m not the only one.
I thank God that this is not my current experience of life, but even in a world full of people the truth is that every one of us feels alone sometimes.

Even God has felt it.
When Jesus became a man, he took on the fullness of our humanity—including our loneliness.
Isaiah 53:3 summarises his experience:

“He was despised and rejected by mankind,
a man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.”

Despised. Rejected. Betrayed by one of his closest friends. Abandoned by all the rest. Hated without cause.
Condemned without justice. Mocked. Shamed. Publicly executed in the most cruel manner humans could conceive with all their perverted genius.
Even heaven itself was silent to his cries—“my God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Jesus died completely alone.
He died under the weight of all our sin, all our wrongs that separated us from God, and separated us from each other.
Under the sin that built all these walls and barriers and brought all of this isolating loneliness into our world in the first place.
He did it on purpose. He knew that only his willing sacrifice could break the awful separation our sin had caused.
He knew that only his resurrection could win a place of belonging in God’s home, God’s family, forever, for anyone who puts their trust in him and receives his forgiveness. Have you?

The one who faced loneliness in the most extreme form possible has promised his people, “I will never leave you”. Never.
You may still feel lonely in the company of others, and still be rejected by some of them, but if you have given your life to Jesus, then you have a home where you will always belong. He sees. He knows, and understands.
With him, you are never—ever—alone.
(Seth Lewis)

Praying for the people of Iran. I think that many people around the globe would love to be tourists in that nation if they only felt safe to visit. Apologies if this isn’t the correct place.

Prayer warriors, please pray for the husband of a dear friend…He is in the ICU at a Chicago hospital…he had a huge, I mean HUGE, heart attack with 100% occlusion of 2 vessels…one of which is the LAD…(also known as the ‘widow maker’). I don’t know much else at this point but prayers are needed.

His wife is a fellow nurse and a Certified RN anesthetist/CRNA…who lost her aged mom earlier this year. Good Catholics….she is about 10 years younger than me…

His wife is also a fellow competitor in dog sports/agility and just qualified for and received her “invitation” to Westminster….

Years ago, I discovered an old devotional book, “Streams in the Desert,” by Lettie Cowman. (1925)

Her book includes this simple poem. (author unknown)
Its words speak volumes, bringing much encouragement!

Wanted to share this little treasure with you!

**

He Placed Me

“He placed me in a little cage, 
Away from gardens fair;

But I must sing the sweetest songs 
Because He placed me there.

Not beat my wings against the cage 
If it’s my Maker’s will,

But raise my voice to heaven’s gate 
And sing the louder still!” 

**

Dear Lord, Give us Your songs in the night. 
Help us sing with gratitude and thanksgiving because You are with us.

Teach us, Lord, what we need to know.
Give us what we need to have.
Make us more like Thee.

For the glory of Your Name, Jesus.
Amen.

(For MMR and her husband Dave, few days before Christmas)

Gracious God, MMR and Dave need You.

Please minister to both, supplying all their needs in Christ – physical and spiritual.
Cover them with Your Grace and Mighty Hand as they go “through” this terrible suffering.
Bring them to a place of quiet rest, healing, and restoration.
Give them Your Peace, Lord.

O Lord, strengthen their faith in You.
Remind them that You are the Rock, Your works are perfect, and all Your ways are just.
You are a faithful God Who does no wrong. You are upright and just.

Grant them an abundance of trust in You, Lord.
Remind them Your love is steadfast and will never fail.
Your mercies are new every morning … great is Your faithfulness.

Increase their faith because Your Will is always righteous and perfect. You know best.
Scatter their fears … give them a spirit of power, love, and a sound mind.
Assure them that You are Sovereign Lord over their lives … their times are in Your nail-scarred hands.

O Lord, May You be glorified through all their afflictions and Your name will be exalted.
For Christ’s sake … Amen.

**

“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”

Isaiah 41:10

(For Greg, few days before Christmas)

Greg, I’m very sorry about the loss of your mother. That is a great sorrow.

May the Lord God comfort you, your father, and all those who loved her.
May He strengthen your hearts, minds, bodies in the days ahead.

May God fill you all with His Peace, His Presence, and a Living Hope.
May the Lord walk closely by your side, and even carry you when the grief overwhelms.
He promises to daily bear your burdens.

Dear Lord, We are here on behalf of Greg and his family.
They are weary and burdened.
We humbly ask for Your rest, Your help for them.

May You receive glory and Your Name exalted in this time of deep sadness.
For Christ’s sake … Amen.

**
(Jesus)
“Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”

Matthew 11:28

* Excerpt: Streams in the Desert (1925)

“And the peace of God, which transcends all our powers of thought, will be a garrison to guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.”
Phil 4:7 (Weymouth)

There is what is called the “cushion of the sea.” 

Down beneath the surface that is agitated by storms, and driven about with winds,
there is a part of the sea that is never stirred. 

When we dredge the bottom and bring up the remains of animal and vegetable life
we find that they give evidence of not having been disturbed in the least, for hundreds and thousands of years. 

The peace of God is that eternal calm which, like the cushion of the sea,
lies far too deep down to be reached by any external trouble and disturbance; 

and he who enters into the presence of God, becomes partaker of that undisturbed and undisturbable calm.

Dr. A. T. Pierson (1837-1911)

(Pierson, amazing servant of God!)

*****

Today I pray for those of you who seek Peace to guard your hearts and minds,
to calm your restless spirit. (myself included)

May the Lord Jesus touch you and sustain you.
By His mercy and Grace.

***

(Jesus)

“I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have peace. 
In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

John 16:33

(For J F and his daughter, Teigan, a few days before Christmas)

Heavenly Father, J. F, Teigan, and her mother need You.

Lord, You know each one’s heart … and every detail of these painful circumstances.
And, only You can heal brokenness and make them whole.

God, You know how the devil strives to steal, kill, and destroy us.
He delights in tearing families apart – because it hurts so bad.

The family was – and still is – Your good plan. The devil hates that, too.
And, from the beginning of time, our Adversary targets and inflicts his deadly poison in our families.

Dear Lord, Please help this family with whatever is needed.
Draw them to Yourself … change hearts, transform minds, bring life back to them all.
Give them hope, guidance, and Grace.
You are the Answer, Jesus. 
Make a way where there seems to be NO way.

Dear God, We realize that oftentimes marriages are irreparable.
But, the parent and child relationship is forever – and sacred; unlike any other.

May You bind together the hearts of Teigan and her mother in days ahead.
Fill them with humility and forgiveness for whatever grudges, small or large.
Strengthen their love for each other … and for You, Lord.

May their relationship grow so strong that nothing will ever separate them again. 
Frustrate the enemy’s schemes so he will flee from them. 

Lord, May You be glorified in this difficult and heartbreaking situation.
Thank You that nothing is too hard for You.

Actually, dear Lord, circumstances like these seem to be one of Your specialties.
I say this reverently — and from experience.

For Christ’s sake … Amen.

***

“Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify Me.”

Psalm 50:15

Whoa … SO MANY prayers requested during Christmas week!
People everywhere are hurting – we all definitely need the Savior!
I was off line, now catching up.


(For Gardengramn, few days before Christmas)

Gardengramn, I will pray for your dear granddaughter.
One of my granddaughters is ten years old, too.
And, my eight year old grandson just went through a scary incident in ICU.
If the Lord and the Holy Spirit had not sustained me, I would have succumbed.

**

Gracious God and Father of mercies, GG’s granddaughter needs Your Help.
While on earth, You went about doing good. Filled with compassion and love. 

You healed the Centurion’s dying son; raised a little girl back from the dead; rescued a father’s deaf-mute boy prone to violent seizures; blessed and restored many, many other children brought to You.

Lord, You are the same yesterday, today, and forever.
You do not change – and we thank You for that.

Please come to the aid of this young girl and give her wholeness, a healthy well-being.
Return to her the joys and simple delights of childhood that have been stolen.

Guide her family and loved ones to the best medical care.
Provide the medical team excellent skills and knowledge for her treatment.

Lord, We humbly ask for Your intervention in her life. 
We know what You can do … and we believe … and we trust, with our whole hearts.

May You rescue and deliver this child, according to Your perfect will.
You are always on time with Your holy purposes.
They are not to hurt us – but for our good – and Your glory.

Dear God, please minister to her family and caretakers. 
Give them strength for traveling this rough path.
Give them rest – physical, spiritual.
Give them hope … Peace … and all-sufficient Grace.
Grant them assurance that You are with them and will never leave.
That You are in control of every detail and Your eye is upon them.

Lord, We thank You now for what will be accomplished in her life.
We ask that You will be glorified throughout this ordeal.
May others see Christ – His power, His character, His love, His goodness.
May they all be amazed at the greatness of God. (Luke 9:37-43)

In the name of Jesus, Amen.

**

“Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord.
Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children,”

Lamentations 2:19

Good Shepherd, We are calling on You for the life of one of Your little lambs.
Please rescue her and be her Refuge.
Amen.

Hello friends … 

Sharing a thought, hope it encourages!

I apologize for my sometimes lengthy prayers here; the thoughts/words just keep coming.
But, today as I began to pray for my grown children, I had NO words. 
Only tears … and more tears.

Then, I remembered when my granddaughter was little.
She was almost nonverbal – give or take a few words – until age six. 
She did blossom in first grade, and today all is well with her speech.

I remembered whenever she wanted something, she would say: “Nana” then “point.”
I knew exactly what she wanted, without any doubt or further words.

Our Heavenly Father also knows those times in prayer when we have nothing new to say, or a different way to express it.
I open my mouth to speak the same ole things, and can only utter sobs.
I’m probably not the only one.

So today I called His name: “Jesus.”
And, I “pointed” – to my children.
I think I did say, “Help.”

Some days I may “point” to a stubborn thorn-in-the-flesh that gets on my last nerve.
Because when communing with “The Word,” words are not necessary.
He created words and certainly does not “need” mine to understand my troubling issues.

Of course, it is good and best when we can verbalize our hearts and minds to our Maker. 
It’s also comforting, tho, when our tears can speak to Him.
Those tears are precious to the Lord … He puts every single one in His bottle.

He knows, He understands fully, and is already at work in our lives.
That is one reason (of many) we can be joyful, even during difficult days.
God is there – He loves us.
Jesus is on His Throne, making intercession for us. (those who put their faith in Christ and accept Him as Savior and Lord)

Be reminded, dear friends … no earthly human can pray for us 24/7.
We may not have even one person who prays for us. 
But if we belong to Jesus, we can have assurance He is always praying for us.

Hope that encourages! I am!

Thanks be to God for our Blessed Savior, Redeemer, Friend.

***
(Jesus)

“Therefore he is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them.”

Hebrews 7:25

Would appreciate prayers for guidance and peace- we are traveling to Wyoming at night, very dark on the highway and our check engine and TRac Off lights came on and not sure if there’s a problem and what to do. Also radio background lights are flashing and radio is dead. 2012 Sienna. 🙏 thank you

Praise God for answered prayers- and to you who sent up prayers- thank you! The car lights trouble resolved this morning after getting gas but I truly believe it was completely orchestrated for a lesson in faith. It even got my husband to pray. All praise!

Prayer Warriors, Mo Peace is requesting prayers on the open thread. No details as yet but Mo will give us details at a later time.
Please read his request and begin prayers for Mo Peace. Mo Peace’s request has an urgency about it, so lets go Treeper Prayer Warriors!

I’ve put Mo Peace on my permanent prayer list. Heavenly Father hear our prayers and supplications on behalf of Mo Peace. Provide whatever Mo needs as You know better than anyone what is required as You created Mo Peace. Give Mo the peace that goes beyond our understanding and courage to face whatever it is troubling Mo Peace. I ask this all in Jesus precious name, Amen.

Hope this encourages!

I’ve always kept visual reminders of God’s love – lest I forget in a weak moment. 
Usually these things have personal meaning — no one else gets it.

Once I had a real “crown of thorns” hanging in my closet.
(Yes, I know that’s weird.)

One day the “crown” fell off the wall, and a thorn punctured my arm.
As blood spurted everywhere, I yelled for help since I was certain an artery had been severed, haha.

When hanging this wall object, I knew the thorns were sharp as daggers.
But didn’t realize one of them would actually pierce me …

Isn’t that the way suffering and pain arrive in our lives at times?
Quickly … we’re caught off guard.

And, sometimes trouble comes subtly, gradually – even from afar.

Whichever way our thorns come … we can call upon the God of all Grace.
He will help us in time of need. 

George Mueller’s prayer has become my desire, too. (below)
Here’s my prayer for all of you here:

May God teach us the value of our thorns.
May the Lord give us wisdom – that though we prefer beautiful roses, we need those thorns, too.

It’s not humanly possible – to want or do His will instead of ours.
But for Christians, the Spirit of Jesus will help us in our weakness, in our Gethsemane garden time.
Even though we will never experience what Jesus did at Gethsamane.

(Father, Please take this cup from me if there’s another way.
Nevertheless, may Your will be done – not mine.)

Living on this side of the Cross, Christ’s Resurrection and His Ascension to heaven, we’re grateful, thankful that He did submit to the Father’s will.
Otherwise, today we would be helpless – and hopeless.

One day may we realize the thorns made a pathway for our steps to holiness – and closer to God.

Truthfully, it would be wonderful if there was another way to get there – without the thorns.
But God said His ways and His thoughts are higher than ours.
And, Jesus even wore a Crown of Thorns on His Blessed head – for our sakes.

Thank You, Lord.

***

George Matheson, the well-known blind preacher of Scotland, once said: “My God, I have never thanked Thee for my thorn.

I have thanked Thee a thousand times for my roses, but not once for my thorn.

I have been looking forward to a world where I shall get compensation for my cross;

but I have never thought of my cross as itself a present glory.

Teach me the glory of my cross; teach me the value of my thorn. 

Show me that I have climbed to Thee by the path of pain.

Show me that my tears have made my rainbows.”

***

… I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. (7)

Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. (8)

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”  
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. (9)

That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties.
For when I am weak, then I am strong.” (10)

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Please pray for my sister Alice in Virginia. I received a call that she’s in an ambulance to the ER, possibly had a heart attack. I have no details yet. Praying and waiting by the phone. 🙏
Thank you so much, beloved warriors.

Oh friends!

I have to be so quick with an update. Things are so scary. Our friend, Margaret, saw Savannah on SnapChat and found that she had not turned her location “off” on the app. Margaret was able to track Savannah to the Tippecanoe County Library in West Lafayette near the Purdue campus. Margaret has a friend who is a former social worker who knows the homeless community there… she hightailed it to the library to find her. I drove 95 mph from Whitestown to get to her – the library closed at 8 PM and the shelter requires them there at certain time – so we had no time to lose.

I found Savannah with four other “special needs” individuals who were traveling with each other. They were very sweet kids – and it broke my heart. I took 3 kids home with me – but the 27 yo girl – started causing us lots of trouble when Ayden had to go to the emergency room. She was getting Savannah worked up that I was trying to separate them from Ayden and she wanted to leave immediately. The 27 yo was hellbent on keeping my impressionable 19 yo and her 20 yo boyfriend – on the streets with her.  The 27 yo is delusional, claimed to be an RN, and “knew how to take care of Ayden” and kept having to “perform CPR on him”.

I put a stop to that by taking her to the hospital to get her shoulder looked at, told her that she could not come between me and my daughter and she was disrupting our family, and she was disrespectful to me who was trying to help them … especially as Ayden was going through XRays and scans to rule out infections, appendicitis, etc… and I would not allow them to “gang up” on me. She said she was going to contact her street friend to go back to Lafayette, so I pointed my focus on who I could help… the 20 yo boy and my 19 yo girl… and we said goodbye to Lily.

There is NO ONE “with us” in this. I keep getting 800 numbers to NGO’s who are supposed to help, but keep getting passed along. Trying to sustain my job and simultaneously trying to get Savannah help is next to impossible. NONE OF THESE KIDS should be on the streets – many without their identity documentation.

Savannah wants to go back to the streets – she thinks it is “fun” like “camping” and she feels she has freedom and a “street family” there. She feels that homelessness has “made her stronger”. Her boyfriend, Ayden, is very very sick. Bad snoring problem and has Influenza A – which we now all have it and I’m home sick for the day from my job at a really tenuous juncture.

I am going to try to reach out to our firefighter friends about some kind of 5150 mental illness hold for her – because I can only convince her to stay for so long. Ayden doesn’t want to go back to the streets. He’s a sweet, meek, and mild young 20 year old, but he will relent to do whatever Savannah coerces him to do.  He loves her, is protective of her, but I can tell – he knows that they shouldn’t be out there.

He has grandparents in Thorntown, north of us. PRAY FOR ME – that I can reach them and that they will take Ayden back and in for permanent care. Or, he has a father in Mississippi who also seems like a viable home. His dad works on a farm, and Ayden may be able to find work there alongside him – which would be a tremendous opportunity. Ayden is a very nice and honorable young man – and worse comes to worse – he can just stay here with me and we will pray God sustain us.

I contacted Adult Protective Services and filed a complaint on Ayden’s behalf. I don’t want him manipulated to do what he doesn’t want to do – even if it is my own daughter and that 27 yo girl doing the manipulating.  I truly think these kids have no earthly sense of how dangerous a game they are playing.  

I need a good group home where I can put them all together. It is a TRAVESTY how full the shelters are – there are 300 individuals in the Lafayette, IN shelter Savannah was in. I fit as many as I could in my car – but had to leave 2 adult males behind. This is not a decision a mother should ever have to make.

Only by the Grace and Mercy of God – did I get there in time to get Ayden some medical assistance. He had 102 temperature and I fear to think what would have happened – if I listened to EVERYONE – who told me NOT TO PURSUE MY DAUGHTER. To those – I say you are WRONG, WRONG, WRONG. God found her. He pointed Margaret at just the right time. Holly the former social worker and I got there just in time. There was no anger, no animosity. There was a loving daughter, who loved me but wanted to stay with her “street family” because they were “her people” and they protected each other. I told Holly that it felt strange to be PROUD of my daughter for her strength and endurance.

I have been talking to the kids about establishing themselves, getting them on their own feet, and then they can form a ministry to help these others. There is MUCH MUCH WORK TO DO – and our non-governmental agencies are RIDICULOUS and not encouraging reunification.

Let’s pray that I can find a way to get these kids some meaningful help. All they talk about is Marvel Avengers and I had to ask “You do know that the Avengers are fiction, correct?”

They’re just kids trapped in adult bodies – they are not capable of risk assessment. Some of these kids think this is “fun”.

I’m sick. I’m sorry my well is empty to be able to pray reciprocally. I can barely breathe. My boss leaves for New Zealand on 1/19th and she hates me because the guys all love me – they call her the witch that flies around on the broom – terrific! – like I need THAT right now – and I still need to learn integral parts of the job so I can sustain our company as their Assistant Controller in her absence for two weeks.

I need miracles everywhere. Everywhere. I need my brain to work overtime. I need my repeated calls to land on someone REAL who can HELP US and get my daughter’s mental health in order – before she hurts herself, Ayden, or someone else.

Beloved warriors, Jen needs your prayers again. She had to see her neurologist yesterday as she’s been having dizzy spells with vomiting for the past 3 days. These are the same symptoms that precluded the original cerebral hemorrhage.

He scheduled another MRI for early next week. He is still as puzzled today as he was in July because even with nationwide consultations of experts in the field, they still can not find a logical reason for her severe level of vasculitis.

I remain faithful that God will heal my child. It is Jen’s faith and courage I’m asking for intercession with. She was doing really well since Christmas. The new meds were finally beginning to have a positive effect on her edema and she was losing water weight rapidly. Now she is upset again thinking she has gone backwards, nothing will work and this nightmare will never end. I’m praying this is just more withdrawal from the massive amounts of steroids she had to take, and that it will smooth out.

Please help me find the right words to keep her fighting and more importantly, help her not lose faith that God is with her every minute of every day and He will get her through this. He did not bring Jen this far just to drop her now.
I thank God for every day and the many blessings we have received from Him and I believe in His miracles.

Thank you and God Bless you all. ❤️

Hello everyone. I haven’t written in quite awhile. I do lurk and pray! Prayers go up daily for everyone here always.

Update on Charlie…he is now on a waiting list for a liver transplant. His mother doesn’t share the day to day so I don’t know if his kidneys are now working. In any case, Charlie needs our prayers if you are so inclined.

My sister seems better in spirit. So thanks to all who included her in your prayers.

My brother found out he has bladder cancer and will start treatments end of this month. 6-8 weeks of immunotherapy. Doctor told him this will bring him down…low grade fevers and flu like symptoms. Please pray this will heal him. His doctor says they caught it very early so he has a good chance of beating this.
Thanks to all. I’ll keep praying and lurking until things hopefully settle in my world.
May God bless you all.

The link below describes a very helpful book which I have: “Suffering” by Paul Tripp.

This excerpt (chapter 14) is a great example of the encouragement found throughout his writings:

“Here is the comfort for every sufferer: 
Hope is a person, and his name is Jesus. 
Life is a person called Emmanuel. 

God enters your life by grace and by grace makes you the place where he dwells. 
So he goes wherever you go; 
He’s there with you in whatever you’re facing, and he lovingly provides you with everything you need. 

You don’t have to search for him; 
You don’t have to wonder if or when he will come; 
You don’t have to earn his presence. 
His presence with you has been purchased by his own blood. 

In your suffering he gives you the best of gifts, the gift of himself. 
To be in him and he in you is infinitely better than having an easy, predictable, trouble-free life. 

And if hardship has been the tool that forges in you an unbreakable trust of him, 
then your hardship hasn’t been for naught,” 

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I am praying for the needs of others here.

And, I am asking for myself and all of us —
That the Lord will help each one learn to just “turn it over” to Him. To not worry anymore.

He’s still working on me as I’m not where I should be.
But thank God, I’m not where I used to be.

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https://www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org/2018/12/11/book-review-of-suffering-gospel-hope-when-life-doesnt-make-sense-by-paul-david-tripp-reviewed-by-sue-nicewander/

Please, pray for my precious wife Elizabeth who was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer that has gone to the lymph node, brain, and lungs. Pray that treatment is available and for God’s miraculous healing. We are having a follow up with the oncologist on Monday.