Conference lgp30::christian-perspective

    Abba, Father, I ask that you guide and give strength in this matter. 
    Help them, give them strength and up-lift there hearts O God. But
    what ever happens Father let your name be glorified.
    
    In the name of your son Jesus, Amen
    
    Will keep them in my prayers
    
    Peace,
    bill

    Jim

    Praying for you and your family.  God bless you.
    
    Karen
    
    p.s. Thank you for your prayer in .1 Bill.
    

    My thoughts and prayers are with you.
    
    These times are difficult living in New England as we all are/ or will
    be impacted.
    
    Love to you,
    
    Ro
    

    Blessings on you.
    
    DR

    
    
    On the way, Mike!

    
    Carole

    Lord and Lover of our very souls,
    I ask most humbly that You walk so very closely with the people
    of this household.  I ask that their eyes are guided to possibilities
    that might be overlooked.  I ask that Your comfort relieve their
    fears and anxieties.  I ask, above all, that whatever happens, each
    one is grounded in Love and Hope, which is You.
    
    So be it in Your own Holy name.
    
    Richard

    I'm sending my prayers to you and your family that you may draw closer
    together and support and love each other during this most difficult
    time.
    
    Nanci

    Any update from our anonymous friend, Mike?
    
    Peace
    Richard

    The  following note was written by the anonymous author of the base
    note.
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Update
    
No quick and easy answer!  The attorney was moderately helpful but not
as knowledgeable as we would have liked.  We need to pull together all
our info and go to the bank with some kind of "proposal" or suggestion.
It's in my spouse's ballpark to do that, and depression (due to under-
employment and lack of funds) causes procrastination.

I don't think we are in any immediate danger, but I suspect we will continue
to "live on the edge" for quite awhile to come.  Thanks for your prayers.
I will provide a future update whenever we are proactive or receive 
threatening letters!

My biggest personal problem regarding all this is to figure out -- sometimes
on an almost daily basis -- how much to pressure my spouse to act and when
to provide "space."  I always have to keep judging whether my spouse is
immobilized and needs a push, or whether my spouse needs me to show my
trust by waiting patiently.

The following is an update from the anonymous member of our community who
requested the support of our prayers:
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Sometimes I think the worst trial of all is that things *take* so long!!  

We got an informal ok to refinance around New Year's.  (Had to go through
Christmas not knowing.)  Then things dragged along while the originator
"worked on it."

THEN we heard a rumor that our bank was going under -- so we called our
originator and made sure that we signed the official mortgage application
papers on a Friday, the day the rumor said that the feds would close the
bank.

The bank didn't close.  Then the rumor was that it would close Monday
morning -- but it didn't!

The next thing that happened was we got a demand letter for our full
mortgage (not for the larger equity loan, which is still in the bank's
own portfolio), saying that we could not longer pay just the back
monthly payments.  Well, I became a basket case!!  BUT, when we
called our originator, he said that the collections department had
told him they had to send the letter, but that they were aware that
a new application was in process and would not turn it over to the
lawyers.

Somewhere during this time the bank laid off about 10 people, but it
still hasn't been closed.  Rumors start when someone (the feds?)
start calling other banks to see if they want to buy a bank that's
having trouble.  Naturally, the banks receiving the calls start
talking...

As of Friday, everything looked good enough that they were going to
call an appraiser to come and look us over.

Needed: Patience and/or tranquilizers!

    Asking for prayers for my dad R.BurtonPower and for my family.
    
    Bonnie

    I will ask that you and your dad be kept in the Light, sweetie.
    
    E Grace

    Thanks E Grace
    
    hugs
    
    Bonnie

    Anything special we should request, Bonnie?

    nancy
    
    right now, an easy end....
    
    i'm off to dc to see him sunday but it does not look hopeful...
    
    prayers for healing of his cancer also are welcome.
    
    thankyou
    
    bonnie

    Thank you Nancy
    
    I've had the best therapy that I could possibly have this weekend
    
    24 hours of playing 'mommy' to my granddaughter.
    
    Michael brought Cannaan up yesterday giving Mom Holly a break
    and I've been holding and feeding and hugging and changing...
    
    bliss!
    
    Bonnie

    Bonnie,
    
    My thoughts and healing prayers are with you and your family.
    
    Love to you,
    
    Ro
    
    P.S.  Hope I get a chance to see your grand-daughter or at least
    pictures of her when I visit next month.  ;')
    

    Ro
    
    Pictures will definitely be available! I'm showing off my first
    collection at work today.
    
    We had a great visit with Michael and Canaan this weekend. (Momma
    Holly stayed behind to work on a paper.)
    
    hugs
    
    Bonnie

The following is an update on the situation of the anonymous noter who
requested the prayer support of this conference.

Richard
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    We got word today that we will close on a new mortgage next Thursday
    afternoon  We never dreamed that resolving this would take so long...

    Business here is New England is still very weak, and the overall
    struggle will be ongoing, but now we will be on much better footing --
    plus we've learned a few things about the right and wrong ways of
    dealing with a bank!

    Thanks for support from my friends here!

   I feel sightly odd entering this.  

   A friend of mine has been in surgury, it is my prayers that she is 
   healing well and not in pain.

   In the hope of love,
   Allison

    May the hand of the Great Healer be upon Allison's friend in her
    hour of surgery and may that hand guide the hands of the surgeon(s)
    and all those who share the operating room.  May God lift her from
    pain and all suffering.  Bless her recovery, that it may be brief
    in duration.  And bless all those who aid in her recovery.  Amen.

Whether it be for duty, honor, country.

..  because they wanted to or because they had to.

..  whether it was at  Bull  Run,  Verdun  or  Flanders,  Pearl  Harbor,
Bataan,  Guadalcanal,  Normandy,  North  Africa,  Anzio,  Pusan, Chosin,
Danang, Long Binh, Dak To or Kuwait or a  few  thousand  other  stinking
places that you couldn't sell ... but a lot of guys died for.

..  whether they froze  their  butt  off  at  the  Chosin  Reservoir  or
sweltered at Tarawa.

..  whether they wore the uniform of the United States  Marine  ...   or
the  Coast  Guard  ..  or the Army ...  or the Navy or the Air Force ...
the Confederacy or the Union.

Officers and enlisted.

Communications, cooks, forward observers, truck drivers, medics, pilots,
mechanics, artillery, intelligence, squad leader ...  all soldiers.

Male or female ...  black  or  white  or  tan  ...   Protest,  Catholic,
Jewish, or atheist.

The great equalizer - death - is what now bonds them together.   We  all
shared a little piece of Hell for a while.

When I see that long piece of marble with about 50,000 names  on  it,  I
cannot help but think "there but for the grace of God ...".  How could I
be so damed lucky ...  or ...  was I?

          This does not mean that you are war mongers.  On the
          contrary, the soldier, above all other people, prays
          for peace, for he must suffer and bear  the  deepest
          wounds  and  scars  of  war.  But always in our ears
          ring the ominous words of Plato, the wisest  of  all
          philosophers,  "Only  the  dead have seen the end of
          war."

                                General Douglas MacArthur
                                12 May 1962
                                Final Roll Call at West Point


Bubba

	My brother is being operated on this morning (about 11:30 Eastern)
	to correct a painfull back problem. Please pray for a successful
	operation and a quick recovery.

		Thank you,
			Alfred

    Keeping your friend in my thoughts and prayers, Allison.  Healing
    energy to your brother, Alfred and a speedy recovery.
    
    Thank you Bubba for the poignant Memorial Day prayer.
    
    Ro
    

    My Mum is gone into hospital with fluid in the heart.   She also has
    Emphasemia(sp).   Please pray for her.
    
    
    Bernie

Prayers for all the casualties of war, whether military or civilian,
whether American or foreign, whether death came valiantly or foolishly.

Prayers for Alfred's brother.  May this surgery forever eliminate the
chronic back pain he has endured.

Prayers for Bernie's Mum.  Be ever so close to her and nourish her with
your Spirit, O Merciful and Loving Nurse.

Peace,
Richard

    Do prayers always have to be for something "bad" to get "better"?
    
    How 'bout a prayer for my daughter who's .. well ... below is the text
    of a SOAPBOX note that I posted ... pray that she does well and don't
    flub up ... 
    
    
    
    
    MY DAUGHTER!! Yes *my* daughter.  The charmin' sweet loverly beautiful
    female_lady_wimmins who is mine ...

    	    IS GOING TO BE PLAYING AT CARNEGIE HALL IN NEW YORK!!!

    And a talented musician she is ... that she is .. and she's *my*
    daughter ... yep, mine. 

    Sign me as

    ONE PROUD DADDY!!!!
    Bubba

    Supportive energy to your daughter (and the nervous dad!!).  What a
    wonderful achievement.  What instrument does she play, Bubba?
    
    Ro
    

>    Do prayers always have to be for something "bad" to get "better"?
    
    Nope. I'll be praying for your daughter who will no doubt do very well
    even without the prayers.
    
    		Alfred

    Congrats to her and proud Papa.  Prayers full of praise!
    
    Peace,
    Richard

   Bubba,

   With a poppa like you she'll do well.  I'll pray for her sucess and
   your frayed nerves.

   Do we get reviews at 11?

    She plays the clarinet ... I'll have more details later ... thanks guys
    (and gals)!!!!
    
    Bubba

    Supportive prayers and affirmations for a stunning debut to you and
    your daughter, Jerry.
    
    Nanci

    Yes, support and prayers and congrats from me too Bubba!!
    
    Karen  

    I'd like to request your prayers and/or positive thoughts for my
    friend, Sherry who passed away earlier this morning.
    
    Thanks,
    
    Nanci

May God embrace Sherry and take Sherry into God's own eternal keeping.  May
her memory be long cherished by those who loved her.

Richard

    I don't know if this is appropriate or not .. but lacking of social
    graces as I am ...
    
    How about a short silent prayer for 1,027 Marines.
    
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    In the early morning hours of 20 November 1943, marines of the 2nd
    Marine Division climbed aboard amphibious tractors in preparation
    for a landing in the Gilbert Island chain ... Betio Island ... Tarawa
    Atoll.

    Four days later Tarawa was secure.  The Japanese garrison consisted of
    5,000 men.  Of these 5,000 only 1 officer and 16 enlisted were alive
    after the battle.  The marine casualties - 1,027 dead and 2,292 wounded.

    Total dead - 6,000.  After the battle an accurate measurement of Beito
    Island was made:  less than 1/2 a square mile - about 300 acres.

    Two names were added to the WWII history books ... Guadalcanal and Tarawa.
    Others to follow in the next 21 months would include Saipan, Iwo Jima,
    Okinawa .... The casualties at Tarawa were consider at that time to be
    "high".  Later, Iwo Jima - eight square miles of volcanic rock - claimed
    nearly 50,000 casualties.

    Four Congressional Medals of Honor were awarded as the result of
    individual actions on Tarawa.  One of those was awarded to Colonel
    David Shoup who later became Commandant of the Marine Corps.

    To the 1,027 marines who paid dearly for 300 acres of real estate ...

    			Semper Fi !
    
    ... oh .. and guys, listen up - I've made some good friends in this
    conference and they just be talkin' at ya'.

    I'd like to make a request for prayers for my friend Stephanie and her
    husband, Steve.  After years of trying to conceive, their identical twin 
    boys, Kirklin and Kortlin were stillborn on Saturday.   Please keep
    the twins, their parents and family in your prayers.
    
    Thank you.
    
    Nanci

Oh Nanci, how heartbreaking.  Stephanie and Steve are in my prayers 
as are little Kirklin and Kortlin.

Ro

    Praying for comfort to the parents of these beloved children in their
    time of enormous grief.
    
    Richard
    

    
    
     I don't feel comfortable giving specifics, but I'd really appreciate a
    quick good thought and prayer today.
    
        Greg  8-(
    
    

Offering prayers up to the Holy and Most Merciful One on Greg's behalf.
May God supply.

Peace,
Richard

    
    Prayers on the way for Stephanie and Steve and the little ones, and to
    Greg.
    
    Carole

    I join with the prayers from my heart for Stephanie, Steve, and their
    babies; and also Greg.
    
    Ruth
    
    

    
    
      All banter aside please pray for me. My mother did something so
    horrible to me that I have just written her to tell her that I will
    not speak with her forever, up to and including her deathbed.
    
    
    David
    
    

    58.49  Your situation is an acutely destructive one.  Your mother and
    you are in my prayers.
    
    Is there any hope?
    
    Shalom,
    Richard
    

    
    
    > is there any hope
    
      There was up to and including this morning when I asked her and my
    father to apologize, they declined. I informed them that from this
    day forward in my eyes they do not exist. I will not change my mind
    and they will go to their grave knowing it.
    
    David

    God of Grace and Forgiveness, be with this family in crisis.
    Ease the pain, lessen the wounds, soften the hearts which are
    suffering and turning to isolation.
    
    This is asked in the name of the One who asked that those who
    crucified him might be forgiven.
    
    So be it.  Amen.
    

    David,
    
    	This must have been a pretty severe betrayal.  Families can
    set aside many past ills.
    
    	Since you've asked your mother to apologize, she obviously
    knows that whatever it is she did really bothers you (to put it
    mildly).  She must have some pretty strong feelings about it, too.
    
    Richard
    

I talked to Collis Jackson at the Nashua bridge club last night.  He's
still out of work, and I'm sure he'd appreciate your prayers as he goes in
for another job interview this week.

				-- Bob

    .54  Thanks for the word on Collis Jackson, Bob.  I will follow
    through.
    
    Shalom,
    Richard
    

    Please pray for my dad and family.  My dad died this morning.
    
    

.56

May God be with you, Debby, and your family in this time of loss.  You have
my heartfelt condolences.

Shalom,
Richard

    Debby,
    
    You are in my thoughts and prayers.
    
                                 Patricia

    Debbie:
    
    Wishing Gods best for you and your family at this time!
    
    In Christ,
    
    -Jack

    Requesting a prayer for a coworkers brother.  He has just been
    diagnosed with a serious and possibly terminal form of leukemia.  
    
    Hey Mom!  This is a really great person, can you see it in your great
    vision to give him some more time on the planet?
    
    

    Adonai, we lift this brother to your light, the light of wellness and
    wholeness.  Destroy that which would destroy him.  Praise be yours.
    
    Richard