Prayers please

I've been struggling for quite a while. It's hard to really explain it all, but ever since my miscarriages and terrible deaths of my cat and kitten last year, I have never quite recovered. I feel like I've been set aside and forgotten in my grief. I'm still praying, maybe more than ever, but my body and mind are trapped in a cycle of stress, fear, and sadness that God doesn't seem willing to free me from as of yet.

I feel silly writing this out, because there are people suffering much more than I am, but there has been such a toll on my health that I'm struggling on a minute-by-minute basis at this point. I'm exhausted and I beg your prayers for a little relief.

Your prayers have always helped me in the past. Thank you.

 

Praying!!!

 

I'm praying that God will lighten the emotional burden you're carrying, as well as the burden on your entire family.

 

Is there a grief counselor near you? You could call Catholic Social Services and get some help for your grief. It’s a process, and help is available.

 

Prayers PF that you will find relief from your stress and sadness.
I will be visiting Knock for the first time next weekend for a special Mass in honour of Blessed Alexandrina and will also pray for you there.

 

Offer it up to God for the salvation of the souls of Purgatory. Those souls will help you back. I will also pray for you.

 

I hope this is of some comfort PF. I just listened to it this morning. You are in my prayers.

 

Thank you; that was comforting.

In addition to my emotional desolation, I'm having mysterious physical problems, one after another, that keep plaguing me. It's as if my nervous system has gone haywire. Then my son has had very swollen tonsils for two months now. He just finished his 3rd round of antibiotics to no avail and will probably have to have the tonsils removed. I don't even know if the real problem is the tonsils, because for the past 3 months my throat has felt strangely swollen, with flare-ups of nerve pain in my neck. I don't know if this is a strange, very long-lasting virus that has attacked both of our throats.

It's all been so much.

 

Prayers again today, I kept hoping and thinking things were gettting better and clearly they are not. But you have a great Faith.

God had His reasons. He is with you in all this. He is hearing your prayers.

 

Thank you, Padraig. I had a bit of a breakdown yesterday but Mary came to my rescue. I was really battling spiritually, and there were evil faces coming toward me from all sides every time I closed my eyes...but I kept praying Hail Mary's and when I hid under Mary's mantle, she drove them away.

My son and I have been offering up our pain for my husband's 23 year old nephew in particular, who was never baptized and has no faith. We just got a call today that this nephew asked to be admitted to a psychiatric ward for a while because he's been really struggling. I pray that God is working on him and will try to be more courageous in whatever God wants.

 

Prayers, PF.

 

Prayers for you pf

 

Funny that we are experiencing the same type of things. It has seemed endless. Last week, my youngest daughter came down with a virus likely from her kids that had mild versions. She has not been able to speak for almost a week as the virus targets the throat making it extremely sore and swollen, feels like strep. My hubby has caught it too and is suffering badly. I was visiting my sister and the day after I left my daughter became quite ill with flu-like symptoms and a day later my hubby got it! Since I was picked up I couldn't just come right back home and had to wait till yesterday to get back! We've had ongoing health issues both here and my daughters family, and my sister is in a very fragile state as well. I believe many families are going through this right now, in many different ways and its bad. I'm hoping something happens to end it all, like the warning because as you said, "It's all been so much.

 

@PurpleFlower I'll be visiting the Blue Cross in Medjugore this evening for the last time this trip. I'm going to lay a purple flower there for you, to bring you to Our Lady in that special place.

 

What a lovely gesture!

 

I'm sorry to hear this! I will pray your family as well!

 

Wow, thank you so much! That really means a lot!

 

So much good advice and prayers here for you, PF. As John said, its not small and its not that we measure pain and suffering to another... it's your pain, its your Cross and it is suffering. I admire you for having the courage to say it out loud and go to the only person who can truly comfort you whether He takes the Cross or allows it to stay. But there is no doubt He loves you immensely. Alyce and I will offer our sufferings through Christ for you.

I can't remember if I shared this before, I am writing... maybe will be a book at some point if this is God's will. But for now, I just want my kids , family abd friends to know I thank God for allowing the accident because I think it will help me Love him more.

Fwiw,......

For Those Who Suffer

If you are reading this because you are suffering — physically, emotionally, spiritually, or in ways no one else can see — I want to speak to you directly. Not as someone who has figured everything out, not as someone who has conquered pain, but as someone who has been broken, afraid, and unsure of how to take the next breath.


I want to tell you what I learned in the darkest season of my life.


You are not alone.


Even when it feels like the world has collapsed around you, even when you cannot see a way forward, even when you feel abandoned or forgotten, God is closer than your own breath. I did not always feel Him. I did not always understand Him. But He was there — in the wreckage, in the ICU, in the rehab gym, in the courtroom, in the tears of my children, in the hands of the people who carried me.


He is with you too.


Suffering does not mean God has turned His face away. Sometimes it is the place where His presence becomes most real. Not because the pain disappears, but before cause something deeper awakens — a trust that does not depend on understanding, a hope that does not depend on circumstances, a love that does not depend on strength.


If you are suffering, I want you to know this:


You do not have to be strong.

You do not have to pretend.

You do not have to carry everything alone.

You do not have to understand the “why.”

You do not have to fix yourself.


Let others carry you.

Let grace carry you.

Let God carry you.


There were days when I could not pray. Days when I could not move. Days when I could not imagine ever feeling whole again. But God met me in those places — not with explanations, but with presence. Not with answers, but with love.


If you are suffering, I want to offer you the same hope that sustained me:


Your story is not over.

Not even close.


There is a way through this — not around it, not above it, buut through it. And on the other side, you may find a depth you never knew, a tenderness you never expected, a strength that does not come from you but from the One who loves you.


I cannot promise that your suffering will disappear.

I cannot promise that everything will go back to the way it was.

But I can promise this:


God wastes nothing.

Not your pain.

Not your tears.

Not your fear.

Not your questions.

Not your brokenness.


He can take what was meant to destroy you and turn it into a place of encounter, a place of healing, a place of transformation.


If you are suffering, hold on.

If you cannot hold on, let God hold you.

If you cannot pray, let others pray for you.

If you cannot see the way forward, trust that God is already there.


You are loved.

You are seen.

You are carried.

You are not alone.


And one day — maybe sooner than you think — you will look back and see that even in the darkest places, God was writing a story of mercy, healing, and grace.

 

This is eloquently said, Mike. I needed to hear every word of this. Thank you.