my heart is breaking...

Oh my, I am so heartbroken right now. My dear cousin, Suz has died. She was younger than me by a couple of years and her family - her Mother, two sister's and B.i.L's, neices and nephews - are still reeling from the death of her father last week. Her father had suffered for several years with dementia and his passing was anticipated, although feared. But Suz was young, in her mid 40's. She had suffered with chronic pain and other problems for years but her death was not expected at all. We, & by we I mean my cousins, her cousins, are a large bunch of first cousins, there are 28 of us, and even more amazing for such a large crowd, we are closeknit and happy (with exceptions, of course). Suz is our first cousin to pass away. I am bereft.
Suz was a stunningly beautiful woman, and just as beautiful on the inside -kind and good in every way. In the 80's, She worked at Nordstom in L.A. at the same time I worked at Nordstrom in San Diego and it was such fun to make interstores calls to search for merch for customers and get to talk to each other.
Please pray for All of us but especially her Mom and two sisters, as our whole family figures out why she died and comforts each other in this sad time.
Thank you for your prayers, Karen E.

Travel mercies

Dear PrayerTeam - I am off to Ireland for cooking school for the month of July and I have set my phone up to be able to blog while I am away..."says here!"
So, besides asking you to pray for safety on our (my Mom's going too) trip, please keep praying and posting while I am away. That way, if I can not blog as I have planned from Ireland, then you will know why I have not been heard from & can carry on praying for the needs and praises mentioned here until I return. I love praying for you.
-Karen

Phillipians 1:19 NIV
"Yes, and I will continue to rejoice, for I know that through your prayers and the help given by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, what has happened to me will turn out for my deliverance."

more Prayer needs

• Julie S. - we're having triplets!.I'm 49 yrs old, preggers with triplets and its 109 degree's outside.
• Marilyn M. & family- Grieving. Mother passed away during outpatient surgical procedure. Upcoming memorial to get through.
• Jason H.- upcoming mission trip to China w/ Bring them Hope. Needs $support, travel mercies and to spread the gospel to orphans in china.
• Karen too - asking prayer for her Grandmother.
• Jana H. -She has lung disease and is looking for a home where it is humid to help her condition.

In the Garden

Sometime last year, I took the rose photo on this blog's masthead. It is of the "Berries & Cream" climbing rose that grows in my garden. When I'm out in my roses I sing this hymn and I pray.

IN THE GARDEN

Hymn lyrics by Charles Austin Miles (1912) taken from http://www.hymnlyrics.org/

I come to the garden alone

While the dew is still on the roses

And the voice I hear falling on my ear

The Son of God discloses.

Refrain

And He walks with me, and He talks with me,

And He tells me I am His own;

And the joy we share as we tarry there,

None other has ever known.

He speaks, and the sound of His voice,

Is so sweet the birds hush their singing,

And the melody that He gave to me

Within my heart is ringing.

Refrain

I’d stay in the garden with Him

Though the night around me be falling,

But He bids me go; through the voice of woe

His voice to me is calling.

Refrain

Isaiah 35:1 KJV 1 "The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose."

Ephesians 5:19-20 NIV

19Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, 20always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

(Verses found on http://www.biblegateway.com/ )

[And don't forget the verse Blondie mentioned earlier in a note of hers that I posted - Colossians 3:16]

Needs for today

-Jim E. in hospital for?
-Miss W, to do the right things
-D.L.'s brother, in hospital - Good News! he's doing much better. -keep prayin'
-Aunt L and Girls (the whole extended family) death of husband and father
-Baby Grace, ongoing medical problems
-Jim B., home from hospital but weak. has blood clot in leg, not sure what will be done about it.
-Gabby, ill family members and much hardship to endure. Update: Gabby's has brother passed away. -Keep praying.
-Cindy B., complications from removal of non malignant tumor on liver. has pancreatitis, She is home, but is being fed through a feeding tube.
-Kurt R. -upcoming nuptials

Praying through...

Dear one
Have been praying ...I wanted to share two scriptures that I couldn't get out of my mind today while at work and praying:


John 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

and

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

Blessings to you. Much love
Blondie

Pray Without Ceasing

Recent emails and blogging with new Christians in my family has prompted to me to make the leap from my current informal and private ministry of prayer, to this more formal and public prayer "ministry". I guess if I say I have a ministry, then I do ---So, I do! But, truth in advertising...I'm self-appointed ministerially. (My Mother is giggling right now because "self-appointed" is an inside joke in my family with regard to me) I want to serve the Lord. I want to be obedient to the word of God. I want to pray for you!
Please understand that my "ministry" has lots of people in need of prayer, so that's not why I'm doing this. I still and always need more people to pray for. Since I'm only one gal, as the ministry grows, I will need prayer-ers. So, if you need prayer for something, tell me. And, if you want to pray along with me for real requests, tell me.
Prayerfully Submitted, Karen
1 Thessalonians 5:17 (King James Version)
17 Pray without ceasing.
King James Version (KJV)
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