week of 9/30/12

God, thank you for bringing me safely through another year of life. I’ve learned a lot, I’ved loved and lost and I am a different person that I was before. I pray that you will be with my friends ---- and ---- in their time of struggle. Comfort them please.

Dear God, Help me find a way to forgive, to let go of past hurts and violations. Help me to be centered in love, forgiveness and gratitude especially now in the face of so much vulnerability. Help me to feel protected and known by you.

Lord, Help me to stop falling.

Oh Father, I am transformed. Your Grace has brought me to new territories. Stay with me.

Lord, thank you for continuing to bless everybody in my life. Not a day that goes without giving you all the glory. I love you with every ounce of my soul, life and being. Amen

Please watch over my friend as she is having a difficult time during her first pregnancy. Please ease her anxiety and give her strength.

 I pray for my mother who died this year on my birthday after an argument. May her spirit and mine but put to rest.

Non-wavering, Holy One in our midst.

Dear God, please bring comfort to all who are suffering. Help us all to experience how holy and awesome you are.

Dear G-D, Every week I thank you for you. I don’t know why I see what I do; please forgive me, all my sins. Watch my family keep them safe. Thank You. –Me

Tomorrow makes the 2 year anniversary of starting our work in Fishtown to be church to folks who feel forgotten. In many ways this is a dream made real, and I could not be more grateful. Thank You, for everything. Amen.

For ---- and ---- and their baby. She just went into labor during this service. Protect her, comfort her, protect their son. May they see you and meet you in meeting their son. Also, for this difficult talk I have to have with a co-worker. Soften both of our hearts. Give me wisdom and humility and strength to tell the truth and to forgive, for I have been hurt. Remind us that reconciliation is still possible in this broken world.

I am taking some baby steps towards processing and hopefully healing some trauma from my past. I have a gifted therapist, and a loving community, so I feel supported. But even with my baby steps, the pain is breathtaking. God, pleases, walk with me. Give me the strength to feel the pain, the strength to let it go.

Please pray that God gives me hope and sobriety and a “home”.

I’m so grateful to God for everything. Jesus is so near even when he seems far. Please pray that my upcoming court date works out ell and that my living situation is better. Please pray for the right man to come into my life. Thanks.

Jesus, I want to practice grace and generosity. To breathe in your patience and wisdom. And for my friends, known and unknown to me who suffer - Lord heal.

My gallbladder was removed two years ago and my body hasn’t recovered fully. Pray that I can find a diet that works and related to that Obamacare helps whose without insurance.

For those with many kinds of need, what you may help them to meet it wisely.

For BSM, that their futures grow ever brighter.

Lifting up those who make up this community, mindful of their love, dedication and whimsy that make this body of believers a reflection of God’s goodness, grace, and love. Be with your children, on our journey, together and apart. Amen

I am saddened by the death of a professor, lost to alcoholism and especially that I am not with the community who love him. It reminds me of the loneliness of the loss of my brother to drugs. I hope that something is revealed in these days… holy in struggle?

General Prayer

1. Please pray that I may be ever aware of God’s presence and sovereignty in all situations and circumstances. 2. Please pray for members of BSM community in need of employment, housing and governmental assistance.

Pray that surgery go well and I be up and walking and that I find housing that is suitable.

This is my mother’s 2^nd time with breast cancer. She survived it 4 years ago on October 12^th. This time she has stage 4. Her surgery date is actually on October 12. I pray something good comes out of this because I am 16 with no father figure and not much family. My mom is all I have; please pray for her.

Just started work today 9/30. After 7 months, “hard” months. Hopefully I’m going to be able to keep this for a long time. Also, I know this is not supposed to be my priority but hopefully I will be able to keep a very healthy relationship with a friend of mine who is trying to help me get back on my feet.

My father has suffered his entire life with heartbreak. To cope with this factor which is one of many he turn to the street life which brought forward a couple decades of drug abuse. He is the best father and is now what I like to think clean. Still he has trouble finding a job & housing and with both he can stop living this indecent life he never asked for.

I pray Father God for world hunger, the homeless that thye may be lifted off the streets, that they’re given food, nurturing. The Body’s god gave us, for potential God is in control. I am week, but God will make me strong. He will answer my prayer Father God. Fix me, make me whole, give the reason to go ahead and do what you want me to do. Abba, Daddy, hear my prayer, keep me and make me somehow the woman you want me to be. Thank you Abba Holy is your name.

Peace to All, understanding, 1 love.

Please pray for ---- – God, heal her heart. I pray that your love speaks to her and allows her to know she is loved. Remind me that only you can do that.

I just pray for a better life if it is possible to stay drug free.