Hope everyone is seeking the Lord in all things this week and lifting their concerns to God. I have read several posts and know we are all still hurting in many different ways. To pray together on Tuesdays is a priviledge and I love organizing it. So, post your requests and let everyone join in and support each other with prayer through the week. <P>Welcome to POPW, Pahakissa, and I am praying for job opportunities for you. Trust the Lord when one door is closed He has another waiting to be opened to you.<p>[This message has been edited by hw (edited January 29, 2001).]

Emotional intimacy. Spirituality as a family. I desire to feel some genuine closeness with my husband someday. Proximity and regular sex seems to be all that he needs, but I need conversation, sharing and faith together. For him conversation either is LB or leads directly to an LB. Things are still evolving, like I have always said! I have hope. And dreams now for the first time in this marriage.<P>Today I found a letter I wrote to the OM last February and couldn't believe some of the disgusting and shocking things I said! We have been enormously blessed this year since I came to MB. <P>We owe an awful lot to the prayers and faith of you valiant prayer warriors. God loves me and has answered all our prayers. Thank you for being part of the miracle. Thank you for letting me be a part of your miracles too. PTL

I pray for strength and endurance. Tuesday is my second counselling session with H. I pray for the right words to come out of my mouth and that my H will hear me. My challenge is to express my hurt feelings in a way that does not make him defensive. I encounter difficulties in putting my life back in order. I yearn for the joy that I believe is possible, and I pray that I will be worthy of receiving it.

Thank you for being so faithful to post the weekly prayer requests, HW. I haven't posted for awhile as things have once again become turbulent in my situation. I have been seeking the Lord and hanging on. My H is once again in a angry and depressed mood (after months of doing much better) and has once again given me an ultimatum. Quit my job and move or he is through with the relationship. He has become cold and distant again. He has D again as she began missing him. She seems to miss one or the other of us at all times. H is not working yet. He found me a job where he is now living (the pay is one third of what I now make), and told me "If you don't take this job, it is over." I have prayed and feel just too tired to make any decisions. If this were the right decision, I believe I would feel peace about it. In general, I am very emotional, crying a lot. This is not usual for me. I try to rationalize this behavior by acknowledging the stress in my life, however I have rarely had times when I was not stressed. My boss asked me to see a doctor yesterday as he says that I am very pale and tired...he suspects that something is not right after the miscarriage. I need prayer to come out of this. I am struggling to do anything, a doctor's appointment seemed overwhelming. Please pray that I do what God has planned for me to do and that this apathy does not lead me to miss doing God's will. Please pray for H and D that we follow God's plan for us, individually and for our family. I have been praying that God would cover me with his love. <p>[This message has been edited by onedayatatime (edited January 30, 2001).]

Pray for travel mercies as this "controlling" person has a hard time leaving "the driving to us" even in airplane.<P>Pray for that my husband can embrace his anxiety about being left alone and find positive things to fill his time while I am gone.<P>Pray that the doctors have wisdom in treatng my son for his cancer.<P>Pray that my son asks Christ into his life.<P>Pray that I continue to seek His face and learn the lessons He has for me to learn, that I can be steadfast and use the gift of sensitivity for caretaking and change it into a source for encouragement and empowerment for others rather than assuming responsibility that is not mine. <P>I too praise God for this forum and that even though there is distance between us, the challenge to become honest godly women remains steadfast in all of us. I value the insights from you all and I appreciate the times you have confronted my actions and challenged me to go one step more. I cannot tell you how much I admire you women who stand firm, of what an example you are to me during the times I want to give up. May He bless you richly today.<BR>