One Thousand Gifts: Friday, Week Forty-Six

Happy Friday, Friends!  My week has been very busy.  What about yours?  Do you have any plans this weekend?  I'll be going to the lake in order to get the cabin ready for the Independence Day Holiday.  :D

This week's devotion is entitled "pit grace."  I admit that I had the most trouble with this devotion (so far).  I do believe in righteous anger, and her boys clearly needed discipline.  Maybe her problem in this situation is that she made it about herself and didn't focus on the job at hand.  Maybe I just didn't get her point here.  What are your thoughts?

Here are this week's verses:

Prayer Requests

• Pray for Kitty's son Mike to get a job. AI has taken away many jobs in his industry.  Mike might have the opportunity to redo a game with a friends.  Let's pray that this works out for him, and it will lead to more opportunities.
• Please pray for our military and military families.
• Continue to pray for Carla's son Sam and the 157th!  Sam is in Louisiana training.  Pray for his safety, and a safe return home on June 30th. 
• It looks like John has been accepted as a patient at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.  It could be up to 12 weeks before he is admitted.  He has seen several specialists in the last 3 or 4 years.  Diana says if they don't get any answers there, they are pretty much out of options as far as improvement in his quality of life.  Let's pray for a speedy admittance and answers!
• Pray for Diane at the Lavender Dreams blog.  She has been unable to go on her many hikes, and is having to stay indoors due to a hurt foot.  Pray for a speedy recovery, and a resumption of her outdoor activities.
• URGENT:  Please pray for Rita's childhood friend's daughter-in-law (Jennifer Price) who was diagnosed with breast cancer in early May. She has triple negative invasive ductal carcinoma and will begin 20 weeks strong chemo June 27 (tumor was removed already). Her husband, Rita's girlfriend's son, died in a lake boating accident 4 years ago this month. Their daughter Emmy is 10, and witnessed her Daddy's death from the boat they were in at that time (he fell out with an apparent heart attack, and didn't come back up).
• Rita's ballerina friend Suzanne has ovarian cancer. Her tumor was removed mid-March, and she has completed 3 of 6 chemo treatments. They reduced her amount as she got a fierce case of neuropathy in addition to her nausea. She has a very positive mindset through it all, but is single, without a large network.  We can be a virtual network for her via prayer!  
• Travel mercies for Rita Wednesday and Friday of this week!
• Pray for Kris's husband Terry and his friends from church as they are on a mission trip this week.  Pray that God will help them as they serve others, and that they will lead many to Christ!

Until next time...

Blessings!
Ricki Jill