Prayer

What a week it's been!  And it's not over.  Not necessarily a good or bad thing.  It could get worse, I just hope not.

Last week I embarked on the much dreaded project of switching out all our summer clothes with fall and winter clothes.  Normally this wouldn't be as painful of a task as it was this time.  For one thing, we're living in a camper.  There isn't exactly room to spread out, let alone walk when you bring in boxes of clothes to switch out.  It was a week of practically mountain climbing just to get from one end to the other in our camper.  The other issue is that all our fall and winter clothes are in storage (I guess I was hoping we would have been in our house by this time) and it's all been moved 4 times.  Once out of our house and into storage in the basement of a shop, then to the main floor when we had the initial flood warning, then into a garage at a house that was on the market when the shop and town flooded, and then days after it was moved to the garage, that house received an offer (it had been on the market for 4 months) and finally moved into our basement of our 'being constructed' home.  Now, the task to simply locate their clothes, well you can just imagine.  On top of that my parents recently drove up from the West Coast with a trailer packed to the brim with stuff for us.  Along with that came more clothes, so I had to locate those as well, and let me tell you I still don't know what all they brought with them.  All that to say, I'm just glad its over, everything that I could find is switched out and nothing is organized!  Let's just say that there will be one big organizing party at my place once the house is finished!

And then this week, well like I said, I hope it doesn't get worse.  My son came down with some sort of bug and we're still trying to figure out what he's got.  First it was cold symptoms, then he thew up but acted fine afterwords so we blamed it on all the apples eaten from the apple tree, then he had a raging fever for a day and then he, well we won't go into further detail but he still isn't feeling up to par.  I am hoping and praying it isn't really the flu and that the rest of us, especially my 2 1/2 month old don't get sick.  Being a mom, I think there should be a rule about not ever being allowed to get sick, it's just simply awful!  And being a mom with a husband who works 6 days a week from sun-up to past sun-down trying to build his family a house and having kids or myself sick with the flu is something I don't want to even think about!

So why is this post titled prayer, other than the obvious fact that I've probably been praying for the health of our family and our sanity last week?  I've also been home a lot and that has given me a lot of time to think and pray.  I've been praying about the uncertainties of our house, our health, for my husband and children and many other things.  One prayer that has been pressing and urgent is that of our dear friends who recently had a baby who is in the hospital and even now going through surgery and there are many unanswered questions still about his condition.  And I received the privilege to pray with a friend today, she came and asked if we could pray together when I had a free moment, and I can't tell you how much that blessed my heart.  I had to ask myself how often I go to someone and ask them to pray with me.  Not often.  Why haven't I?  It was such a blessing for both of us and it ministered to my heart praying with her.

Are you praying for your friends and family?  Are you asking for prayer?  Do you take time to pray with your husband or children?  Do you have a prayer partner?  Just some questions to consider.

What a beautiful privilege we have to communicate with our Lord, to pour out our hearts to Him and listen to Him!