Prayers and Meditations

[Mon-Jas Charan]

This is just precautionary, but I'm having an EGD – esophagogastroduodenoscopy tomorrow morning … The Doctor is making sure I don’t have Barrettes syndrome.

[JediKai]

Hope all goes well for you, Mon-Jas.

[Cara Drume]

No; it isn't selfish to ask for prayer for oneself. We do that at my church all the time; bringing prayer requests before the Lord.

Don't worry, Lazlo. I think it does make sense. Things can be rather confusing when you're new to something; and sometimes even when you're not new to it! I'll continue to keep you in my prayers.

[tailonkae]

My Jedi family...
I come to you in deep prayers and sadness...
My grandmother is pretty much bed ridden and is not doing to well...she had to have emergency surgery last week and came home friday...but now her heart rate is WAY above normal and my family thinks these are her last days..she is weak and doesnt do much anymore...this is hard for my family and myself...she is at home...but I dont think she will last much longer...

I ask for your prayers, meditations..whatever you do in time of need..
I need all the strength i can get from friends and family....
I thank you for your prayers....

TLK

[JediKai]

Prayers and meditations gladly given.

If these are her last days, I hope her physician has ordered hospice care for her at home. They will help both her and her family at this difficult time of transition.

[JediKai]

All of you in Florida are in my thoughts and prayers. Looks like another storm is headed for the westerns side. You have certainly had too many storms to endure the past couple years.

[tailonkae]

Thank you Kai...yes she does have hospice...which my family is very glad...

[Jauhzmynn Enz]

Tailon,
I'm keeping her in prayer as well as you guys.

Thanks Kai, we've defiantly had too many. It's getting aggrivaiting. Pray this one never gets beyound a Category 2 status.

[Mon-Jas Charan]

You and your family are in my thoughts and contemplations

[Elric Surwar]

TaiLon,

My prayers are also with you and your family as this is something that hits very close to home.
Just this past week I lost my grandfather, it was quick but painful.
My mother was taking care of him but he began wandering around the house and falling to the point of injury so they took him to the hospital. I got to see him before he left and tell him I loved him and that I'd see him soon...

They ran a catscan and found he had cancer in his pancreas, liver and lungs. He was taken to a Hospice the next day and he was gone that evening...

I find peace in know he's with my grandmother again whom he loved dearly but lost after her second bout with breast cancer just 2 years ago.

It's not an easy time, but you are not alone.
I know this because although I'm still healing, I am not alone.
Christ is here with me.
My wife is here beside me.
My family is with me.
My friends are all around me.

I'm not alone, and neither are you.
again, my thoughts and prayer are with you and your family.

[Schph Gochi]

Hospice is indeed a great serivce....make sure to check into it...
We entered my mother in Hopice care before she died.....it was a blessing..

[Cem-Ji Pobroo]

Schph Gochi, sorry to hear about your mother.
Mon Jas, I pray everything is going fine with you and your wife.

I haven't posted in a while; have been trying to sort through some personal problems. Bottom line, I don't know if I love my wife. We've been married 3 years this October but we've been together since 1994, 7 years of that time long distance; us living 2 hours apart. We're both Catholic (but not practicing Catholics if it makes any difference) and I know divorce is a sin. But to me, which is the greater sin? Being married to someone you don't love, or divorce? I haven't gone to a therapist or psychiatrist yet. I'm trying to figure out why this happened and I believe it to be I married her since she was my 1st girlfriend and didn't have many before that; we started dating at 22. Half the years I've known her was limited to every or every other weekend. And now I see what I really had wanted in a spouse. Its not like I hate her (it just doesn't feel like love) and she is great to me. I appreciate anyone's input and advice. Thank you!

[kivaanzion]

Hello my friends,

This morning my Father-in-law passed away peacefully in his sleep. He was 74.

He was not in the best of health having had two triple bypass heart surgeries in the past year. He had been in and out of the hospital several times- sometimes because he had stopped breathing.

He was a strong man with a wicked sense of humour. At any given moment he could burst into a song. I was privileged to have known him.

We knew this was coming- the doctors pretty much told us that he did not have long left to go. You just never believe it is going happen I guess.

My Wife was a complete mess when she first heard the news. She had lost her Mother to cancer about fifteen years ago. She's doing a bit better tonight.

We are having a private viewing tomorrow morning, after which he will be cremated as per his wishes.

Let me give you an example of his sense of humour- when his wife would ask what to do with the ashes he would answer:

"Put a tiny bit in box for safe keeping- put the rest in a Tupperware jar, and keep it in the trunk of your car. If you get stuck in the snow, throw the ashes under your back tire and put me to good use!"


We are all going to miss him dearly.

[JediKai]

My condolences. Right...that's a wicked sense of humor! He will like on in your memory.

[Leda EmBorr]

Ki-Vann, he sounds alot like my Dad. That sense of humor will live on!

Cem-Ji, I can sympathize with what you might be going through, although I don't know you or your situation personally.

My advice to you is to see a marriage counselor, before you make that final decision. Be sure of your feelings, and be sure to consider all the alternatives. You both need to be sure it is the right thing. You don't want any regrets. I've been through hard times in my marriage, where I felt as you do now.

I'm Catholic also, recently, mostly non-practicing, so I know where you are coming from with that.