Carol, I'll keep you in my prayers. I'm sure many of us have dealt with 
issues similar to this.

Please let us know how things go.


--RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTS A NATION, BUT SIN IS A DISGRACE TO ANY PEOPLE.

Proverbs 14:34

Donna Miller

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Carol Pearson" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 6:07 PM
Subject: A FEW PROBLEMS FOR PRAYER, PLEASE


> Hi all,
>
> It's been a hot and sticky weekend, with lots of activity and a number of 
> problems - and now I'm really tired!
>
> We need God to answer and make some provision for us pretty quickly.  I'll 
> spare the details, except to say that, after some difficulties with the 
> person from church who has been reading our mail and helping us to keep 
> our dog bin and run sorted (on a weekly basis, we do the rest), he's not 
> wanting to do it any more and we have no replacement.  The right help of 
> this kind is difficult to get and church has not been interested in 
> meeting other needs, such as help with cleaning etc.  We also were forced 
> to let our gardener go a couple of weeks ago as he was taking real 
> advantage and we'd worked with him on this for a long time.  Again, we 
> don't know anyone interested.  These things really tend to raise the 
> anxiety level, especially as some just must be done and we can't!
>
> Please pray also as the person who has stopped coming went to our elders 
> and moaned and groaned etc. and they're talking about a meeting with us. 
> We felt his behaviour (in not coming to us directly to discuss 
> difficulties) was unscriptural and Mike told him this today.  We are not 
> intending to involve others but he obviously feels it's a good thing to 
> have some of his very long-standing friends on his side and listening to 
> what he has to say. This has very much hurt us.  Now he tells us he will 
> continue to think of and pray for us . . ..  I am pretty mad as I don't 
> see this as the church helping us in our real needs right now.  Also, the 
> elder to whom he spoke, contacted Mike at work so that he could keep it 
> quietly from me.  Mike was taken by total surprise and was trying to take 
> other calls and then suddenly realised that he didn't want to keep this 
> from me, as he never keeps anything, so was very upset late last night. 
> He had felt he had to keep it back until after we had had a special meal 
> out on Friday and a meeting on Saturday with very long-standing friends 
> who I'd not seen for 35 years as he didn't want to spoil these occasions. 
> He's not good at having to try to do this though and I know he was put in 
> a very difficult situation.
>
> I am sure some will understand how the church's decisions not to get 
> involved in real practical needs can be such a problem to us!
>
> Our dog, Fabian, continues to be quite poorly but is still enjoying some 
> quality of life, though is very hot in this weather with his big, black 
> coat.  Please pray that the Lord will be good to us all and enable us to 
> cope for as long as we need and then to make it very clear to us if we 
> should not continue to care for him.
>
> Thanks for listening and for your prayers, all of you.
>
> God bless:  I must try to get some sleep.
>
>
> --
> Carol - Reading, UK
>
> To you, o Lord, I lift up my soul;
> In You I trust, o my God.  . . .."  PS25:1-2 NIV.
>
>