SoulFull Week Forty-Nine

 

I meant to get a photo of my Advent wreath (you can see it in the background), but instead I took a photo of the heirloom roses.  GAH!

Hello, My Sweet Friends!

Y'all....I can't tell you how blessed I am to have a new computer that WORKS!  I didn't realize how much I missed having one, and I think that Mr. Prayer Warrior is even happier since I no longer borrow his laptop!

How was your week?  I have been thinking about y'all and about how some of us are definitely in the Big Kahuna right now.  My mind kept thinking of Kris in particular this week with Terry's struggles.  I truly thought that this lesson was so inspiring and timely.  

I showed our youngest daughter the cookie recipe, and she wants to bake it when her sister comes home for Christmas.  I will post them when we bake them!  Did you try this recipe?  Have you started your Christmas baking yet?

I love that the lesson started out with a quote from Madeleine L'Engle.  I have read her fiction, and this past year I've started reading her Christian nonfiction books.  She was such a treasure, and a very deep thinker!  I highly recommend her books.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

~Madeleine L'Engle

What are your thoughts about this week's lesson?  

This week's scripture is from Paul's lesson to the Romans, and it's about how suffering is good for us and leads to hope:

Prayer Requests

• Pray for Rita as she mourns the loss of her sister.  First Christmases without loved ones can be especially difficult.
• Please pray for Kitty’s son, Mike, who is excited about working on his own idea. Pray for Kitty that she can be supportive and encouraging to him as he shares his ideas and developments with her.  He is such a good guy and needs something wonderful to happen in his life.
• Praise for Rita's daughter Megan for finishing her semester of the FNP program successfully! Just one more semester after a Christmas break!  Let's keep up the prayers and get her over the finish line next wemester.
• Pray for my best friend Barbara who is battling cancer.  UPDATE:  Barbara might be able to return home Tuesday.  She has been away from home for almost a month because she was in the hospital for a week, and she's been at the SNF for almost three weeks.
• Carla's prayer request is for all the young people entering the military, the love they feel for the USA to become warriors to fight to keep us free.  Let's especially lift up our National Guard as they are deployed both here at home and abroad. 
• Pray for my mother.  She is declining rapidly.
• Pray for Jenna Meon's family as they mourn her passing.  The celebration of life will be December 13th, which is tomorrow.
• Please pray for Kris's MIL because she has been having some heavy health issues, and Kris is currently her full time nurse.  Pray that God will help and bless Kris as she cares for her MIL.  Pray that other family members will step-up and will be discerning about what's best for her care.
• Kitty's younger brother is having health issues.  Please lift him up in prayer.
• Pray for Kris's husband Terry.  He is having intestinal problems due to a blockage caused from a hernial mesh procedure from a few years ago.  Pray that Terry will continue to recover at home, and that both Kris and Terry will not catch anything from being around the sick folks at the hospital. 
• Rita's HS Friend Pam needs us to start banking-up prayers now. Her oncology and reconstructive team of two surgeons will perform an estimated 12 hr surgery Jan 5 to remove at least half of her tongue (tongue cancer) and, minimally, lymph nodes on her right side of her neck. She will have skin grafts taken from her forearm and thigh to reconstruct. She's expected to be in the hospital a minimum of 10 days. It's a long road ahead for her. 

Thank-you for your travel mercy prayers for Shelley and me as we traveled last weekend to Louisiana for our niece Molly's baby shower.

I'm staying home today because we're having some furniture delivered.  I hope to get lots of chores done!  Have a great weekend!

Until next time...

Blessings!
Ricki Jill