The Daily Prayer Thread

[TerryMiller]

My prayer "process" is pretty simple. I simply follow the J-O-Y list of priorities. Jesus first - Others second - myself last. In other words expressions of gratitude for God's love and Jesus' willingness to be a sacrifice is first. Prayers for so many others is second. But to be honest, I seldom ever pray for much for myself, other than to ask for his continued blessings upon me.

 

[tRidiot]

Well, it was a busy morning but I did fine as the sole provider. I told 'em to cut it off at 25, I ended up seeing 24.

Did 19 tests, 6 positive COVID, 3 positive flu B.

Not slowing down any by my count. Those numbers align with what I saw all week.

Pray for our country.

 

[DRC458]

Well, it was a busy morning but I did fine as the sole provider. I told 'em to cut it off at 25, I ended up seeing 24.

Did 19 tests, 6 positive COVID, 3 positive flu B.

Not slowing down any by my count. Those numbers align with what I saw all week.

Pray for our country.

And, thanks for all you do.


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[crrcboatz]

I try to start my prayers with gratitude....this puts things in the right perspective. Even when we are suffering, we are blessed but forget those blessings. Prayer is a chance to restore the right balance in our relations with God. Prayer puts a stop to the negative rumination that plagues so many of us.

Me too!

 

[THAT Gurl]

I'm glad your day wasn't as bad as it could have been. And thank you. I know you have your hands full right now.

The only prayer I have is that people stop and think about what they do and say instead of just acting out. Too many people in the world today seem to think that stress is a valid excuse to act like a petulant child. It does NONE of us any good when this type of behavior becomes the norm.

 

[Dale00]

Kudos to you tR for starting this thread. Prayer and faith are the best medicine. We have always needed it but more so these days:

Right now, people are living at a time with no easy solutions, a moment with a lot of conflicting “facts” in a rapidly changing landscape. According to Nicole Ellison, who studies communication and social media at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, that means there's a “lot of demand on cognitive processing to make sense of this. There’s no overarching narrative that helps us.” That, she adds, only compounds the stress and anxiety they're already feeling.

For years people have questioned the net benefits of platforms like Twitter and Facebook, and while some studies have found social media, when used responsibly, can have positive effects on mental health, it can also lead to anxiety and depression. Or, at the bare minimum, FOMO. And that’s just the result of looking at too many brunch photos or links to celebrity gossip. Add in a global pandemic and civil unrest—and the possibility that social media networks are incentivized to push trending topics into your feeds—and the problem intensifies. “In a situation like that, we engage in these more narrow, immediate survival-oriented behaviors. We’re in fight-or-flight mode,” Ellison says. “Combine that with the fact that, socially, many of us are not going into work and standing around the coffee maker engaging in collective sense-making, and the result is we don’t have a lot of those social resources available to us in the same way.”
...and this was written in late June, before the election added a whole new axis along which to freak out in the cortisol-soaked mess of 2020. People are basically soaking in fight-or-flight hormones for days and weeks on end. I wouldn't bet against a massive uptick in undiagnosed PTSD.

https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2020/12/doomscrolling.html
The missing "overarching narrative" (above) is of course God...and to walk humbly as we seek his will for our life.

 

[tRidiot]

Looking forward to this evening. A group of us guys get together for what we call our Back Porch group. We do some Bible study, ceegars and bourbon. Yeah, that's my kinda group!

Anyways, I stopped going in Sept after I got quarantined and basically haven't been back since. Now I had COVID over Thanksgiving, so I'm not really at (as much?) risk. We're getting together tonight with our families, looks like maybe 15 or so of us.

I've got a pork butt and a month-aged Prime brisket on the smoker, looking forward to some fellowship and hanging out with friends for the first time in quite a while.

W00T!

 

[DavidMcmillan]

I really appreciate this thread. Some solid sanity while there is so much insanity bouncing around us.

 

[THAT Gurl]

@tRidiot hope you had a GREAT time last night!

I'm better than everyone tells me I ought to be so no complaints here. I actually feel like doing some housework so I'm sure Grumpy is happy too. Like he has told me several times in the last few weeks -- I'm a lot more high maintenance than he ever thought I could be. Lol (He ain't seen nothing yet. I kinda like being waited on hand and foot. Haha! )

 

[rc508pir]

@tRidiot hope you had a GREAT time last night!

I'm better than everyone tells me I ought to be so no complaints here. I actually feel like doing some housework so I'm sure Grumpy is happy too. Like he has told me several times in the last few weeks -- I'm a lot more high maintenance than he ever thought I could be. Lol (He ain't seen nothing yet. I kinda like being waited on hand and foot. Haha! )

Why would you want him to wait on your hand and foot. Sounds painful.