Pagan Prayer Requests

I am Home.

2008-06-29T02:17:36Z

This is an update from my previous post.

I want to thank all of you who kept me in your thoughts. I appreciate all the positive energies and prayers that were sent my way.

I was blessed to have such awesome surgeon, doctor, and nurses. The procedure was only an hour long, I was out today (Saturday), and now the healing can begin.

It was worse than anticipated. They actually found a stone in one of my gallbladder ducts. Using my husband's analogy when he saw the picture they took, "It looks like pushing a tennis ball through a garden hose". But now it's out and I'm no longer in pain or suffering. I'm sore and tender from the surgery, but it went well, and I am feeling good.

Again, thanks so much for the positive thoughts.

For those who wanted to know.

2008-06-26T19:45:48Z

It's official. I have to have surgery. My gallbladder is inflamed and has been the cause of my pain, suffering, and discomfort. The walls have thicken to a point where it is not releasing the bile when it needs to. I have another doctor appointment tomorrow to talk further with my doctor as well as meet my surgeon.

Thank you for all your prayers and positive energy. It has been very much appreciated.

UPDATE:

So I just got off the phone with my doctor. He wants me to check into the hospital tonight and prep me for surgery tomorrow morning. It's a very simple procedure that will have me out by Saturday.

I am currently so scared I keep struggling to not cry. I know it will be okay, but that doesn't make the thought any less frightening.

An Update on My Situation

2008-06-23T01:29:29Z

A few of you requested that I keep you posted from Monday's post. My doctor believes I have a dysfunction in my gallbladder as well as colitis. (If the two are related, I don't know.) Now for my gallbladder, we do not know what it is, but will have an u/s done soon to know. If i have gallstones or sludge I will need surgery to have it removed. I will also be having a CT Scan for my colon.

I was hoping for IBS, but instead I got this.

Thanks so much for the positive energies and prayers. They are truly appreciated. Knowing that helps me stay positive. And thankfully my husband is coping with it with jokes, which make the idea a little easier to bear.

Prayers needed

2008-06-20T15:05:36Z

Today, I am going to the doctor. For the past six months I have been getting sick. It has progressively gotten worse, especially within this month, and has escalated to a point where I have been in excruciating pain with vomiting and/or diarrhea for hours for the past few days. I'm afraid I may have a gall stone and that if I am right will need surgery to remove my gallbladder. I will be going to the doctor this morning to make sure. Please keep me in your prayers. I hate doctors and hospitals because of a fear that was rooted in my childhood. Whatever the outcome, your prayers are appreciated.

I want to be a part... " I " I need help...

2008-06-19T18:31:53Z

1st of all.. I'm new to the pagan life / path..
She was the 1st...
20 years ago..
She is still so beautiful...inside and out..
she found me...online..
we've spent some time together..
very nice time..
She knows I want to be hers again..
the chemistry is still there.. but she's not sure..
I still love her.. never stopped..
and it's obvious she has deep feelings for me..and is afraid to hurt me...
But it may not be enough...
If thats the case.. and it's not meant to be...
Please pray for me..
so It doesn't break me..
Please.. I beg... Please..
Thank you for reading...
and Bless You..

A prayer for strength

2008-03-16T02:19:42Z

I feel so blessed to have found this community. I am going through a very difficult time and I feel I could use all the prayers and energies I can get. A few nights ago, out of nowhere my live in SO of 4 years said he wanted to throw in the towel. We have had some serious emotional and financial difficulties through our relationship because I have severe obsessive compulsive disorder. I had been doing very well for about 2+ years but about 2 months ago had a relapse that resulted in me needing to take leave from work.

I admit that I am high maintenance when it comes to this. I also acknowledge it can be hard financially. We have been through this once before, much more severe then it is now, He knew this before we even moved in together.

I took a risk on him a year and a half ago and moved 800 miles away from my home, my family and my friends. We are in debt, and miles away from pursuing our dream of buying a home of our own. But we have always worked through it. We are one of those couples that everyone admires, we talk, we do not yell, we cuddle and kiss like teens still. We have just enough in common and just enough differences.

Here is where it gets difficult. He began taking the anti-depressant Wellbutrin about 4-5 weeks ago. In that time period I have told him multiple times that something seems wrong. He is distant, moody, easily agitated. I have enough knowledge of these types of medicines to know these are all side effects.

Last night as he told me this, he kept telling me that he loves me, and that this is breaking his heart, but the financial worries are too much. That he feels like he has failed me and is causing my problems. That he feels helpless and that we will never be able to achieve our dreams together. He said terrible things about himself all that indicate a horrible depression.

I asked him for some time, because of many reasons, first being I cannot just pack my car and move and the other was to beg him to stop taking the wellbutrin and give it time. My step-mom has booked plane tickets to come down in mid-April. I asked him to give it until then. He said he owes me that and will do that.

Right now I am devastated. I can hardly function or process that he said these things. They are completely unlike him. He is a very zen person and rolls with the punches of life with relative ease. Others have noticed the personality change, but I feel also I am in denial that maybe he really does feel these things. I need help to find the strength to endure this time. To be open to what the universe is sending me. I also pray for peace for him. So that he may find a way to see life clearly through its struggle.

Thank you and Blessed be to all.

A Prayer for Compromise

2008-03-06T03:46:05Z

I'm not entirely sure how these prayer requests work, given this is the first post I've made here, but I'm just going to wing it and hope it turns out the way it should.

I just recently turned 16 and to me, that seems like a reasonable age for parents to give their child a bit more religious freedom. My parents don't see it that way. And they've known about my wish to study and practice Wicca since around seventh grade, when I was 12. And when I was 14, I thought that they had the right to know that it wasn't just curiosity about Wicca anymore, it was a solid decision - final; I thought it was the mature thing to do, instead of keeping it from them. If anything, it just made them more uptight and place more emphasis on the Bible and going to church every Sunday. For awhile, I tried to push against them, show them that I wasn't going to back down about my beliefs, no matter how many times they dismantled my altar or took away my incense sticks and candles. But after a time, I really got sick of struggling with them over going to church and the like, so I backed off, stopped arguing and inciting confrontation. I even stopped setting up a permanent altar in my bedroom. I have sort of decided that I'll just wait until I'm in college, out of the house, before really beginning to practice, but at the same time, I always hope for them to loosen their reins on my life.

So my pray request to you all is for my parents and I to come to an understand, to find a compromise of some sort that allows me to have my religious freedom and give them peace of mind.

I greatly thank those of you who read this and contribute your positive energies to my situation.

Peace, Love, and Blessed be, my friends.
[ria]

Prayer request for my father

2008-01-13T16:26:04Z

My father, who's 72, stumbled a bit a week or so ago and initially developed a bruise on the top of his knee. Later that day, however, the bruise had gone from the size of a silver dollar to being about 12" long by 4" wide. The doctors didn't want to do much with it because opening it would just open the wound to infection, and - especially with MRSA apparently going around - the last thing you want is to open a route for an infection. A few days later, though, that question became moot when the fluid that had been building up in the wound decided it had nowhere else to go and the skin broke open. He's been in the hospital since then, and they've had to surgically clean the wound and are now hooking him up to a Wound-Vac to see if that will help the wound start healing better. They're also going to be keeping him on heavy-duty antibiotics during all of this. Oddly, they're not going to keep him in the hospital while administering the antibiotics (like they did with me and my leg wound,) but are sending him home and he'll have to go to the hospital 2 times a day to have infusion treatment.

As you might guess, I'm rather worried about him. I've been dealing with one wound for about 2.5 years now, and mine started out quite a bit smaller than his. We tried the Wound-Vac on me and not only did it not help any, I think it actually prolonged the healing process by about 6 months to a year. Granted, every nurse or doctor who helped me during the time I was using it was shocked that my wound wasn't shrinking, and the reason it took so long to figure out that the Wound-Vac was part of the problem is because it was simply unthinkable to anyone that it COULD be part of the problem - that how well they generally work, so hopefully my dad will have a more normal experience and his leg will heal properly AND promptly - but I'm sure you can see where I don't necessarily have a lot of faith in the Wound-Vac.

In addition, my 84-year-old mother had to have major open heart surgery last year and is still extremely weak - and now she'll have to take care of my father when he comes home. It's hard for her - probably too hard - but they have a lot of friends from their church who are willing to help them (and who understand that I can't) so that's helpful. Talking to them about the possibility of going to a nursing home is a bit tricky, though, since my dad worked food service in nursing homes for most of what I remember of his working life. They both know all of the good things about nursing homes, but they also know - from observing it - how lonely and isolated people can feel there, and how there's often a sense of hopelessness to the people there - a sense that they're just waiting to die. And I know my parents well enough to know that neither of them are even close to ready to admit that they might need that level of help. I'm sure they will be able to admit it before they get into any kind of trouble - and if it seems like they're not, I will speak up, but I know that right now, I wouldn't get anywhere.

My parents are Christian, but they are aware of my Pagan beliefs, and they know that when I ask my Gods to help them - or request that others send healing energies to them and/or offer prayers to their Gods on my parents behalf - that it is what I believe is the best spiritual gift that I can offer them, and that it comes from a place of love, so I know that they will appreciate any prayers or energy you can send in the same way. Its one of the things I love about them, because I know it's not been easy for them to see me walk away from the path we'd followed when I was growing up.

So, if you can send energy to my dad for healing, my mom for strength, and me for wisdom, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, and Blessings to you always!

Kriselda (aka thorswitch / thorsdruid)

mri results and a huge thank you

2008-01-08T03:56:55Z

I wanted to say a huge thank you to everyone who responded with love and concern, who took the time to care and send help when I requested it.

I also wanted to let you know that my mri came back clean today, no tumors. We still have things to rule out, but at least the really bad is out of the way.

I appreciate the outpooring of support, and the wonderful suggestions. I'm sure it will be only a short time now for me to visualize my aura again, with the worst of the stress out of the way. :)

Blessings,
fluffy

please help if you can

2008-01-06T23:52:58Z

Hi there,

This is my first post to this community, but I am going thru a really rough time right now, and would like to request healing energy. I have been very ill lately, am getting the results of my mri tomorrow, and will be going thru some more medical procedures throughout the remainder of the month. It seems that daily I am having things happen one by one that devastate me and I am not reacting well or properly.

My pride usually gets in the way, but I am losing strength and really need some help. If anyone can offer strength or healing energy, if you could please send it my way, I'd be forever grateful.

<3 and light,
fluffy

x-posted, sorry..I need all the help I can get--I can no longer even visualize my own aura

As promised, an update

2007-11-12T13:58:30Z

Yesterday they were able to remove the balloon pump from my mother's heart. They had gradually reduced it's beat ratio from 1:1 to 1:2 to 1:3, and her heart rate and blood presure were remaining stable. The pump is now out and her numbers are still really good.

Today they're hoping to be able to remove the breathing tube. If all goes well she'll be beating and breathing completly on her own by the end of the day.

Yesterday she was the most awake and alert that she's been since the catheter. She was even arguing with us about what day of the week it was. =D

Thank you all for your prayers and thoughts of light, healing, and love. I know that all of you have helped greatly in my mother's recovery.

Here's hopng she's home in time for Thanksgiving. :)

-Winnie

Prayer request

2007-11-06T02:53:10Z

Sometime between last Tuesday night and last Wednesday morning my mother had a silent heart attack. She was taken to the ER Wednesday evening and admitted into the ICU, where she has been ever since.

Her heart is very weak and they've been giving her medicine to help her maintain a decent blood pressure. They tried to take her off of the medicine last night but her blood pressure dropped too low so they had to put her back on it by this morning.

My mother has end stage renal failure and severe type 2 diabetes. The heart attack was caused because she had developed keto acidosis.

Tomorrow morning at 7:00 she will be transfered to a different hospital for a heart catheter. They will be assessing the damage to her heart, which they think is extensive. If she needs any repairs done they'll do it tomorrow while she's under. The options they've discussed with us are angioplasty, stint, and open heart surgery.

I love my mother very much. She's my best friend, and I'm not ready to lose her. So I'm asking all of you for any and all forms of prayer and thoughts of love and healing.

Thank you so much. I'll try to post in the next couple of days to let everyone know how well Mom's healing.

Prayer Request

2007-11-02T00:04:14Z

Hi everyone. I need prayers to help me find a job. I moved to Valdez Alaska two months ago & can't find employment. I've been looking everyday & put in several applications. At this point I feel like giving up the job search.

Thanks in advance for the prayers.

PRAYERS

2007-10-24T05:36:37Z

I PRAY TO RECIEVE A BLESSI NG FROM OUR GOD AND GODDESS

paganprayer @ 2007-07-29T20:17:00

2007-07-30T03:30:09Z

Somtime last night, a cousin of mine and two of her friends were out drinking. My cousin Melissa, thinking she was too drunk to drive, gave her friend the keys to her car and asked him to drive home.

There was an accident.

The two boys, who were sitting in the front seat, didn't even get scratches on them. Melissa was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with severe head injuries. Her skull has been crushed and her brain is swelled to three times it's normal size, and she's started to undergo the first in possibly several surgeries, this one to remove a portion of her skull to allow the swelling in her brain. The doctor says that if she even survives, she will be paralyzed for life, mentally retarded, or both.

Please pray for Melissa. We just lost our uncle about two weeks ago and we love Melissa dearly. And please, be careful when and if you're drinking alcohol. Your whole life can fall down around you in an instant.

Thank you all so much.

(updated)

2007-07-29T23:22:07Z

my beloved Momma is in the hospital having her appendix removed. She lives in southern california and is the greatest thing in my life. Please take a moment or a few moments to send her some prayers.

Thank you,

H.

Stuck in a nasty rut. Help us heal?

2007-07-13T18:01:35Z

Greetings fellow Pagans!

I've been on this community for some time lurking I suppose. I check it every so often and read entries that call out to me and send some energy. Sorry I haven't commented much (if I have at all?) I used to have another lj name but switched it over to this Id. Anyway..

I have a request, but first some things about myself:

I'm a 24 year old gay eclectic witch. I live in North Eastern Ohio. I am an Aries. I guess I've always kinda been all over the place as many Aries reportedly are, but I really haven't made it very far in life. I've seen some amazing places & things, and had some good & bad times, but I can't seem to make it on my own, ever. Growing up in an alcoholic household with an abusive father who beat my mother for over twenty years and me for quite a few, living in a small town and sometimes kind of shy but not like I once was I guess I haven't really put myself out there.

I've had jobs, I've left home before (twice), the first time I was 18 and I missed my family badly after a month I came home. The last time I was 22 and spent 4 months in California where I turned 23. Things there didn't end up well with a not so good roommate situation, and the thought of 'being fully on my own' so far away from everything I knew began to tear away at me and brought on panic attacks unlike anything I'd ever had. I came home ( a little over a year ago).

The place I came home to was darker than I ever remembered. Filthy, and depressing, and unkempt. My mother turned herself off when I was gone and nothing mattered to her. She is bipolar, had a massive heart attack when I was 8 years old, is on blood thinners, hormones cause she had a hysterectomy, a whole bag of meds to make a long list of diagnosis shorter.

Our house is going up for Sheriff's auction in October. This isnt necessarily a bad thing, this place is just not good. But my mom is stubborn about where she'll willingly go when this place is gone, I fear she will go with my dad. Further still, I still feel paralyzed to make my life improve. I'll have somewhere to go, so no worries. I wont be homeless But, I guess what I'm asking for are some prayers/energy (what have you) for strength, without negative consequences and happiness.

I've never finished my g.e.d. Or learned to drive, two things that have been on my agenda forever & a day. I know that only I can change my life by taking action, but doing so when I feel paralyzed just isn't happening. Thank you in advance, n sorry for such a crappy introduction!

Blessings

Help! Need to Manifest a Miracle!

2007-07-12T18:10:22Z

I’m going through an exceedingly challenging time right now and it has become very difficult for me to stay positive and focused. If you are willing, would you please pray for me (or just hold good thoughts, if you are not into prayer)? I ask your help in seeing me whole, healthy, financially secure and remembering that I am an expression of love in a universe that fully supports me.

In love and gratitude,

Shannon

Prayer Request....

2007-06-21T12:43:30Z

Ok everyone,
Here is the Deal:
My mom and my brother Zach are currently in Iowa City, Ia at the University of Iowa Hospitals. They are waiting on a tissue type on a kidney that they have for Zach.
(Quick background... Zach has been in Kidney failure for the last 4 years. This transplant will save his life!)
What I ask is this...
Please PRAY. Send positive energy. Whatever you can think of. Let's make this miracle happen!!!!!!
Thank you!! :-)
(I am now going to go and freak out!)

AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH

2007-06-17T00:06:26Z

       First I would like to thank everybody for your prayers from the request that I have place on here. There is something very special when complete strangers pray for you, I can't explain it, but I guess it gives me hope that things will change in my life and that there really is a chance for this planet to be a place of peace.
       So here is my dilemma, as you know I am getting divorced, the problem that I have right now is money. My stbx can not support herself yet and it will probably be a few months before she will see any sort of income flowing in to her life. Finances are beyond tight right and I need help and I need it fast. So I am asking to to join your prayers with mine that I will find a way to have an additional three to five thousand dollars come into my life before the end of this month. I know that the money is there somewhere, I just need to find it. Whether it is somebody loaning me the money or whatever. I am already working a full time job and a part time job and I am at the point of having to find a third job to get more money coming in until I get the debt paid off and get the expenses in line with what I am earning from my main job. Having this three to five thousand show up before the end of the month will relieve so much stress for both myself and my stbx. I really don't want to find a third job because that will mean I will not be able to see my son as much as would like to. So I am asking for your prayers and if anybody has any ideas please let me know. I can't get a loan because of my credit right now.
        Thank you all and Bright Blessings.

Pray for my Soon To Be Ex-wife

2007-05-22T02:48:19Z

To some this may be a strange request, but I ask you to pray for my soon to be exwife. I ask you to pray that she will find success in her life. I still love her and I always will love her and this is why I want her to be successful. That she will be able to live out her dream of being a successful author. Please send these prayers to her. Thank you...

Prayers for Guidance and Healing

2007-05-18T12:46:00Z

For several years now I have been in a cycle of depression, followed by illness, followed by financial poverty. Each time I think I have reached the lowest point possible in my life. Each time I find some bit of hope and try to recover my life. But just when I can see my way through, the cycle starts again and I am flung back into my darkness.
I am broke, ill and thinking of suicide. The universe is trying to tell me something (where to turn, what to do, how to progress?) but I can't seem to hear and my situation just gets worse and worse.
Please, if you would, pray that I receive the guidance I need to right my life and that I might find both a spiritual and physical healing that is lasting.
So many thanks and bless you all for listening.

Lost

2007-05-17T23:48:32Z

I feel lost. I am going through divorce, a divorce from a woman who I still love and will always love. I need guidance, I need strength and most off all I need hope. I have no hope for anything. I can't forgive myself for the choices that I made that created this to happen. So any prayers that can be offered will gratefully be accepted. Thank you. Bright Blessings.

A little help from others never hurts

2007-05-02T23:28:10Z

So I have been trying to land this job for some time now. Actually I am here as a Temp and I really want them to hire me on permanently. They want to hire me but it is for the state and that means that there are certian protocals that are needed to be followed. This is the second time I have applied, the first time it came back with not enough experience and yet the skill set I have to offer is more than my actual work experience. They want me but now its in the hands of another personnel department so as much as my friend and I are keeping our thoughts and energy towards the positive for it, it could never hurt for a little more. Here is a little more information for those of you who wish to pray or simply put it into the air for me.

Name: Kimberly
Place of Work: Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health
Job Title(s): Clerical Trainee or mabey even Administrative Assistant I

Thank you in advanced and blessed be.

Energy needed

2007-04-30T19:22:13Z

My good friend nastynurse is in court with her son today. He lives in a group home due to severe emotional and mental issues. Last year he was molested by one of the caregivers at the group home he was in. Today they are finally dealing with the legal aspects. There is a taped confession by the man, if it is admitted as evidence it is pretty much a done deal and Marco will not have to be subjected to further emotional distress. We ask that you please send energy towards that goal. Thank you.