START HERE LETTING US KNOW WHAT YOU ARE REALLY DEALING WITH.. HALF THE PRESSURE WILL GO AWAY WHEN YOU JUST ALLOW OTHERS TO KNOW OF YOUR PAIN AND STRUGGLES..
AND DON'T WORRY.. YOUR TEARS AS YOU TYPE WON'T HURT ANYTHING ESPECIALLY NOT THE KEY BOARD.. IT WAS DUE FOR A GOOD WASHING ANYHOW.
Well, I guess I will be the first to reply. :)
I have a few struggles. I am sure they are not as bad or as many as some, but I am a single mother. Definitely not by choice. I drifted very far away from the Lord and I looked for love from guys. Well, my daughters father decided that he didnt want anything to do with her when i was only a few months prego. I am on my own. I do not get child support because he keeps moving from state to state. My daughter turns 2 at the end of June. I recently got laid off from a good paying job. I havent found work yet. I do get unemployment, but that barely makes ends meet. I don't get a break from my daughter and that is very stressful. My friends dont want to watch her and my mother is takinng lots of pain pills so i really don't trust her to watch her.
I am trying to grow closer to the Lord and walk with Him every day. I know that he will not let me fall. I just need some prayers for a job and maybe a little break from all the stress.
Quoting braysmommy247:
Well, I guess I will be the first to reply. :)
I have a few struggles. I am sure they are not as bad or as many as some, but I am a single mother. Definitely not by choice. I drifted very far away from the Lord and I looked for love from guys. Well, my daughters father decided that he didnt want anything to do with her when i was only a few months prego. I am on my own. I do not get child support because he keeps moving from state to state. My daughter turns 2 at the end of June. I recently got laid off from a good paying job. I havent found work yet. I do get unemployment, but that barely makes ends meet. I don't get a break from my daughter and that is very stressful. My friends dont want to watch her and my mother is takinng lots of pain pills so i really don't trust her to watch her.
I am trying to grow closer to the Lord and walk with Him every day. I know that he will not let me fall. I just need some prayers for a job and maybe a little break from all the stress.
Lord
Please guide this woman. help her feel your very special touch. Lift her spirits and guide her as she follows you. Help her to be guided by your word. Help her to find her STRENGTH FROM THE BEAUTY AND WISDOM OF YOUR SCRIPTURES. AND ABOVE ALL HELP HER TO REST ON YOU.. YOU GIVE US PEACE YOU GIVE US LONGSUFFERING AND PATIENCE. I pray for this lady all of these things.
Tonia
Thank you so much. Sometimes things just seem so hard and like they are never going to get any better. I get so frustrated with my daughter sometimes and frustrated with myself also. I know that God is there. I just need to reach out to Him like he is reaching out to me. I want to be so full of God, that when people look at me they see Him.
Quoting JESUSCARES4YOU2:
Quoting braysmommy247:
Well, I guess I will be the first to reply. :)
I have a few struggles. I am sure they are not as bad or as many as some, but I am a single mother. Definitely not by choice. I drifted very far away from the Lord and I looked for love from guys. Well, my daughters father decided that he didnt want anything to do with her when i was only a few months prego. I am on my own. I do not get child support because he keeps moving from state to state. My daughter turns 2 at the end of June. I recently got laid off from a good paying job. I havent found work yet. I do get unemployment, but that barely makes ends meet. I don't get a break from my daughter and that is very stressful. My friends dont want to watch her and my mother is takinng lots of pain pills so i really don't trust her to watch her.
I am trying to grow closer to the Lord and walk with Him every day. I know that he will not let me fall. I just need some prayers for a job and maybe a little break from all the stress.
Lord
Please guide this woman. help her feel your very special touch. Lift her spirits and guide her as she follows you. Help her to be guided by your word. Help her to find her STRENGTH FROM THE BEAUTY AND WISDOM OF YOUR SCRIPTURES. AND ABOVE ALL HELP HER TO REST ON YOU.. YOU GIVE US PEACE YOU GIVE US LONGSUFFERING AND PATIENCE. I pray for this lady all of these things.
Tonia
Quoting braysmommy247:
Thank you so much. Sometimes things just seem so hard and like they are never going to get any better. I get so frustrated with my daughter sometimes and frustrated with myself also. I know that God is there. I just need to reach out to Him like he is reaching out to me. I want to be so full of God, that when people look at me they see Him.
Quoting JESUSCARES4YOU2:
Quoting braysmommy247:
Well, I guess I will be the first to reply. :)
I have a few struggles. I am sure they are not as bad or as many as some, but I am a single mother. Definitely not by choice. I drifted very far away from the Lord and I looked for love from guys. Well, my daughters father decided that he didnt want anything to do with her when i was only a few months prego. I am on my own. I do not get child support because he keeps moving from state to state. My daughter turns 2 at the end of June. I recently got laid off from a good paying job. I havent found work yet. I do get unemployment, but that barely makes ends meet. I don't get a break from my daughter and that is very stressful. My friends dont want to watch her and my mother is takinng lots of pain pills so i really don't trust her to watch her.
I am trying to grow closer to the Lord and walk with Him every day. I know that he will not let me fall. I just need some prayers for a job and maybe a little break from all the stress.
Lord
Please guide this woman. help her feel your very special touch. Lift her spirits and guide her as she follows you. Help her to be guided by your word. Help her to find her STRENGTH FROM THE BEAUTY AND WISDOM OF YOUR SCRIPTURES. AND ABOVE ALL HELP HER TO REST ON YOU.. YOU GIVE US PEACE YOU GIVE US LONGSUFFERING AND PATIENCE. I pray for this lady all of these things.
Tonia
You are truely welcome. I tend to be hard on myself also.. I sence a bit of that in you.. Try to enjoy the ride instead of trying to arrive at a destination. The journey is the learning the joys and fears. The joy we receive in heaven will come from how we JOURNEYED. Were we faithful.. Did we study to show ourselves approved?
AND AS WOMEN DID WE RAISE CHILDREN TO LOVE OUR SAVIOR.
These are the things that will matter... now how many dishes were in the sink..
I know they drive me batty too.. lol
Tonia
MY SON HAS ASPERGERS SYNDROME AND ADHD.. THERE IS NOTHING YOU COULD DO TO MAKE ME HAPPIER THAN TO EDUCATE YOURSELF ON ADHD AND ALL AUTISM SPECTUM DISORDERS.
I have a few struggles going on right now. Just like everyone else, our family is struggling with finances. I work full-time & my DH works full-time at his day job & then he helps out at his parent's Indian Jewelry Shop. It seems there is always too much month at the end of the money.
Another struggle I am going through right now would be my faith. Well, not really the faith part, but the religion part. Ever since my son was born 2 years agao I have realized that I have strayed very far away from God & I want to come back home. But the religion that I have known my whole life, is not the one for me anymore. I am looking to change, & I just need to find a place where I belong. I know I will be changing alone as my DH does not want to change. It's also going to be tough letting the family know about the change I have made when it happens.
Anyway, that is what I'm going through right now.
Ok....
I guess some of the things that I'm struggling with would mostly be being a better mother. I tend to yell a lot, and I have a very hard time being consistant when discipling. My son is now 12 years old, and if I can't find the strength to be consistant I run the risk of losing him to himself. Mostly in the realm of resisting authority, being defiant, so on and so fourth. I'm a single mother, and I don't have anyone else living with me, so it's very trying at times to say the least.
He is also fighting me over going to church almost everytime I go. This has been a huge change for him to adjust to, because I have not gone in years. Now that I've found a church that I truly love, I'm there whenever the doors are open lol. I know he's learning a lot, and he understands his sins, believes in Jesus... but it's all head knowledge. There hasn't been any outward sign of a changed heart or attitude towards his former behaviors etc. yet. So, I'm still praying for that.
Jackie, (JLee)I'm SO proud of you. God has brought you so far since we first met on here, became friends and started talking. God has moved in a MIGHTY way in your life and your growth and faith in God shows and shines so brightly. I love you sister. Keep fighting the fight and running the race-the prize at the finish line is yours- Mighty Woman Of God!! LIC, Jackie.
Love In Christ, Jackie
We are having bad financial probs. My hub is the only one working and I am disabled Social Security don't give ya much. Our marriage is on the rocks don't really wanna talk bout why enough people knows. Ou son was born with a congenital heart defect had closed heart surgery at one month old, open heart at 11 months and Just 2 weeks ago a heart cath. There is a possibility of another open heart and a stint in the future.
Quoting cecilmansmom:
We are having bad financial probs. My hub is the only one working and I am disabled Social Security don't give ya much. Our marriage is on the rocks don't really wanna talk bout why enough people knows. Ou son was born with a congenital heart defect had closed heart surgery at one month old, open heart at 11 months and Just 2 weeks ago a heart cath. There is a possibility of another open heart and a stint in the future.
My heart is sincerely feeling for you. That is an awful lot to have gone through, and an exhorbant amount of stress to deal with. I would like to pray for you... may I have your first name please, if that's ok.
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on Apr. 11, 2009 at 10:16 AM