Sally Sluggett Rewarded by your Prayers

Dear Prayer Group,

I have seen the Power of Your Prayers. May I be so bold to ask you to say another Prayer for my dear friend Sally Sluggett. She has been in Barnes Hospital, St. Louis since July 21st. She was first diagnosed with pneumonia and then Legionnaires Disease. The very next day after your prayers her health immediately stabilized. She is still in intensive care and heavily sedated, but they were able to reduce her oxygen intake and the last x-ray of her lungs showed improvement.

If I may proceed further I have only know Sally for a few years. From the moment I met her I knew she had a big heart. She took me to New York for my first time last November. I was very skiddish of the big city. But she showed me around, we had a grand time, and we rode the subway. Sally didn't think twice about giving her lunch from Carnegie Deli to a homeless man or stopping us from boarding our train to try and help a begging girl with green snot running out of her nose down to her mouth by giving her tissues and talking to her, about what I never asked. Sal said she thought the gal was a drug addict. I always thought I was compassionate but I suddenly realized I had become a bit hardened through the years. Sally thankfully jolted me back to what the true meaning of compassion is all about. Her actions have made me a better person. And now I ask for your prayers for her. Please say a prayer for Sally.
God Bless,
Mary

For those who have seizures

Let us join in prayer for those that have had seizures, that they may recover fully and discover the trigger that causes these things so that they may manage their lives here on earth for the greater glory. Amen.

This prayer prompted by a seizure event in Kevin Fath's family; his mom and family would benefit from your prayers. Thanks RGB

A prayer: "For Those in Pain"

Lord sometime I want to howl in pain and anger when I hear of the death of some person or child who is innocent of any sin or evil.

I often direct this anger towards you because I don’t know
where else to place it.

I don’t understand how a loving God can stand by and watch this cruel world send its rock slide of pain down upon the innocent.

But that is exactly the point Lord, it isn’t you that sends
the pain, it is something that exists in this world that
is evil.

Something that we cannot describe fully, rolls over the
top of us when we least expect it.

We struggle to understand, but wisdom and insight
fail to be our gifts and we settle back into ignorance,
sorrow and blindness.

That is when we can turn to you for help. The past
is done but the future is pregnant with possibilities.

Our departed loved ones leave behind the sweet
taste of their love in great abundance and it is
this that will redeem our spirits and offer us
succor.

Lord turn us from bitterness and in your wisdom
show us how to spread love and not our sorrow
to the world around us.

Amen


Deacon Tom Coffey
Spring 2008