All Sisters experiencing difficult struggles

beachcottage

Prayer For Hope
Dear God...
On those days
When hope escapes me,
When all I am is weary,
When darkness is all I see,
Let your strength be my beacon
Like a lighthouse on a rock,
Shining bright enough
To dispel the clouds
Of despair...
And bring me new vision.
© Abbey Press

csp

In my prayers ~

beachcottage

peace
light
and prayers

xoxo
Patti

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Thinking of you all keeping you in my prayers ~

PuppyFive

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My daughter and granddaughter were visiting for a few days. I didn't realize how much I needed to see both of them. Lilah is 18 months and I miss her laughter and her curls bouncing as I chased her 'round and 'round through the house. Pat, I know the pain of seeing your child sick, scared and in pain; nothing easy about being a parent.

Thanks to all of you for your kind words about the original post. I felt then and still do now, there are so many, so very many, who need our encouragement, our smiles, hugs and prayers and it is hard to post to every individual request or remember everyone by name. So many are in the midst of their own struggles but still reach out to others to offer comfort, hope and prayers. What wonderful teachers you are to all of us - gentleness of spirit makes all the difference.

We all know what is it to stand at the bottom of that mountain and it looks as if to get to the top is just to hard, to long and far beyond what we can do. It is, if you try to do it alone, so we take you by the hand and will help you stand on that mountain top. For all who are dealing with mets, newly diagnosed, center of a crisis, hurt, worn out, beaten down, experienced the loss of loved one - we Pray for a peace to your spirit, strength to travel on and comfort knowing others care about you.

Love and blessings to all, Brenda

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----Bless You Brenda. and Thank You For All Your Love,debbyfive

PuppyFive

Bless this House Dear Lord,AMEN. debbyfive

beachcottage

csp

Lifting you all in my prayers ~



hugs,
Carrie

TheShopMama

Someone sent this to me today at just the moment I needed it. Hope it speaks to you. Pam

There was a couple who used to go to England to shop in a beautiful antique store. This trip was to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. They both liked antiques and pottery, and especially tea-cups. Spotting an exceptional cup, they asked "May we see that? We've never seen a cup quite so beautiful."

As the lady handed it to them, suddenly the tea-cup spoke, "You don't understand." It said, "I have not always been a tea-cup. There was a time when I was just a lump of red clay. My Master took me and rolled me, pounded and patted me over and over and I yelled out, DON'T DO THAT! I don't like it! Let me alone!", but he only smiled and gently said; "Not yet!"

Then.....WHAM! I was placed on a spinning wheel and suddenly I was spun around and around and around. 'Stop it! I'm getting so dizzy! I'm going to be sick!' I screamed. But the master only nodded and said, quietly; 'Not yet.'

He spun me and poked me and prodded and bent me out of shape to suit himself and then........then he put me in the oven. I never felt such heat. I yelled and knocked and pounded at the door. "Help! Get me out of here!" I could see him through the opening and I could read his lips as he shook his head from side to side, 'Not yet'.

"When I thought I couldn't bear it another minute, the door opened. He carefully took me out and put me on the shelf, and I began to cool. Oh, that felt so good! "Ah, this is much better," I thought. But, after I cooled he picked me up and he brushed and painted me all over. The fumes were horrible. I thought I would gag 'Oh, please; Stop it, Stop it!!' I cried. He only shook his head and said, 'Not yet'.

Then suddenly he put me back into the oven. Only it was not like the first one. This was twice as hot and I just knew I would suffocate. I begged. I pleaded. I screamed. I cried. I was convinced I would never make it. I was ready to give up. Just then the door opened and he took me out and again placed me on the shelf, where I cooled and waited---and waited, wondering 'what's he going to do to me next?' An hour later he handed me a mirror and said, 'Look at yourself' and I did. I said, 'That's not me; that couldn't be me, It's beautiful. I'm beautiful!'

Quietly he spoke: "I want you to remember, then,' he said, 'I know it hurt to be rolled and pounded and patted, but had I just left you alone, you'd have dried up. I know it made you dizzy to spin around on the wheel, but if I had stopped you would have crumbled. I know it hurt and it was hot and disagreeable in the oven, but if I hadn't put you there, you would have cracked. I know the fumes were bad when I brushed and painted you all over, but if I hadn't done that, you never would have hardened. You would not have had any color in your life. If I hadn't put you back in that second oven, you wouldn't have survived for long because the hardness would not have held. Now you are a finished product. Now you are what I had in mind when I first began with you.

"The moral of this story is this: God knows what He's doing (for each of us). He is the potter and we are His clay. He will mold us and make us, and expose us to just enough pressures of just the right kinds that we may be made into flawless piece of work to fulfill His good, pleasing and perfect will.

So when life seems hard, and you are being pounded and patted and pushed almost beyond endurance; when your world seems to be spinning out of control; when you feel like you are in a fiery furnace of trials; whe life seems to "stink", try this...Brew a cup of your favorite brew in your prettiest tea cup, sit down and think on this story and then, have a little talk with the Potter.

lizk37

Pam - That was great!

Lord, please help us to find comfort and stregnth.

xoxo,
Liz

Naniam

This was beautiful and so very, very true. Thank you for taking the time to share.

Brenda

lisaelder1972

That was a wonderful story.I shared it with my husband and children.Thank you.

Hugs,
Lisa

csp

what a beautiful story ~

Merlette

So many thanks to you all --- I am so scared!! I start chemo on Weds, and today they told me they found something on the Cat scan, so they're ordering a MRI. Please keep all those prayers coming for us all.

csp

Lifting you in my prayers today and everyday
hugs Merlette holding your hand as you wait..

Naniam

Beautiful Lord, Wonderful savior
I know for sure all of my days are held in your hands
Crafted into your perfect plans

You gently called me into your presence
Guideing me by Your Holy Spirit
Teach me dear Lord to live all of my life
Through your eyes

I'm captured by your holy calling
Set me apart. I know you're calling me to yourself
Teach me, Lord. I pray

Take me, mold me, use me, fill me
I give my life to the potter's hand

Call me, guide me, lead me, walk beside me
I give my life to the potter's hand

May the Comfort of the "Potters Hand" upon our lives give us the courage and strength to face today and tomorrow.

Love and Blessings, Brenda

PuppyFive

(((((( GODS SPEED )))))) Love, debbyfive

Fran2630

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There are so many sisters having difficulties and I come here and read how many need prayers and then some have posted at other places on mets or loosing the husbands, etc. and it is hard to respond to each of these individually.

To each of you, I say a prayer daily for you. I pray you will find comfort, peace,strength and healing from the prayers that are being sent for you. You are my hero's!!!

Love and Blessings to you.
Brenda

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I join you here Brenda. I do not get online as often as before and know I miss alot. I have always been warmly recieved in posts I have made and it brought much comfort.
I do ask daily that God comforts all here, no matter the problem or it's outcome. You are all my special sisters and I sincerly care about you.
Fran

csp

Thinking of you all lifting you in my prayers for Gods protection and Peace to surround you ~

Carrie

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Keeping you in my Prayers ~

susanmcm

Brenda, prayers for you that they figure out what is wrong and you start feeling better. Prayers for all our sisters who need help. Pam your story was beautiful.

Susan

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Keeping you in my heart and prayers always

csp

PuppyFive

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I found this awhile back in one of my devotions; it spoke to my heart and I put it to memory. I thought I would share with everyone.

The love of God is my pillow,
Soft and healing and wide
I rest my soul in its comfort
And its calm I abide. (Long)

We never walk alone!!! Brenda

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AMEN.xoxo, debbyfive

PuppyFive

Praying for you ALL!!! debbyfive

csp

I love that too Debby so beautiful ~

beachcottage

PuppyFive

Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. ( Psalms 68-19) Bless this House, Dear Lord, AMEN. debbyfive

PuppyFive

To All, Sisters and Brothers ((((( GODS SPEED ))))))) debbyfive