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Prayer request for my wife in Romania... that Lent will bring Jesus' light to her. She has been thru real trauma and delusions. Please pray for her deliverance.

Lord have mercy!

RileyG said:

My ears have been clogged since 2007, and my PCP referred me to an ENT. Please pray the pressure in my ears will finally go away. It's been going on for more than half my life. ugh

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Hoping this will be taken in the right spirit…

The ENT:

Dr Treebeard will see you now!

Hmmm, hmmm! Let’s not be hasty! Now, let’s take a look at that throat…

RileyG said:

My ears have been clogged since 2007, and my PCP referred me to an ENT. Please pray the pressure in my ears will finally go away. It's been going on for more than half my life. ugh

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Lord have mercy!

I would like to know the joy and peace and that my fear does not have dominion over me and daily life. Thank you for your prayers!

RileyG said:

Thank you, Father.

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yeppers

For my daughter. Acetaminophen overdose. Wound up going to the hospital instead of to church.

Lord have mercy!!

This is pushing us hard to go back to Russia despite the dangers.
On the one hand, I have received manna from heaven. Someone has dropped a little money in my American account each time I have been on the brink of complete financial bankruptcy and collapse. I have been able so far to buy food and gas. But this pushes us hard. I desperately need an operation. I am a cripple. I can live with that. But not with my daughter doing stupid things because she is desperately unhappy. And not when my school is announcing that it can’t pay its teachers. I don’t even know how we can do it with no financial wherewithal. And with an old car with Russian plates, blocked by sanctions from entering various countries.
Please pray for guidance and help for me. I need a way forward, either to stay or to return. Scylla and Charibdis.

ugh, I can’t imagine. Lord have mercy!

continued prayers!

We’re still in the middle of it. Still don’t know which way to go. A peace deal hasn’t materialized, making a return to Russia more risky. I was actually paid for March (not all teachers have been), I guess because I told them I would walk if they didn’t and losing me would be a more serious blow to what cred they have with parents (who mostly don’t know what has happened, I guess); I was able to pay the massive 5 months rent due when the landlady showed up. Still on the edge, still living off of manna from heaven. I am mostly homebound, I get around with a cane. Still have food on the table and the bills are mostly paid. Because of kind people who show up here and there, dropping a little money in my American credit union account. Managed to get to church for Palm Sunday, though it is extraordinarily difficult to get to Confession, which our church does not offer on Sunday mornings. My wife had a chance to go to a Holy Week service last night. Sometimes I feel like we are Mary and Martha, with me being Martha. My older daughter visited us briefly with her man, who we like. I urged them (separately) to get married. None of my kids are believers. I keep hoping and praying. When you feel like you did everything right, set a good example, and it didn’t matter…
Prayers appreciated. I so much want out of this stormy sea into a quiet harbor where we can relax and stop worrying about all these things.

continued prayers!

Hi, all!
I’m on the very edge again, financially. Prayers much appreciated. If anyone feels so moved, I have an American credit union account. I feel ashamed to ask for help. All these years I have been one who helped others. Now I am forced to swallow my pride and accept whatever with gratitude. Kind people have helped out, but it runs out.

I’ve been surviving off of charity over the past year and a half at least, collectively, we have been making only two grand a month where our real expenses add up to three. This situation arose in part because I was misled when we moved here; I thought we would each be getting a basic salary of one grand each plus another for me in after-school/weekend lessons; it turned out to be only half of that. We scrambled, both took on more lessons, both online and off,but it wasn’t enough. Without my mother’s widower, we’d have already sunk, but he has reached his limits, too. Other people have showed kindness in one-shot deals, and I’m grateful, but it’s used up. We’ve gotten a long way. My older daughter, over the next year, should be able to mostly support herself in Germany (she already works teaching German as a foreign language, but it’s not enough for rent, tuition, insurance, food, and spending money), but my son will still need support for the same for a few years; he has already started working what they allow students there to do, but it’s hardly a quarter-time job, not good for more than spending money. We have to provide a little more than one grand for the two of them monthly. I have been doing it through online work with Russian clients, but got a bad blow this week - the phone I relied on to handle the banking died completely, and the tech wizards in the capital city could not revive it, and thanks to sanctions, you can’t download the apps and they block international banking with Russia every way they can.

I’m ready and able to work, but can’t find paying clients any more, and I have to charge what I’m really worth - I worked myself close to a heart attack on the local minimum wage my first year; frightened my wife to death, and had to cut back my workload. And the local economy is depressed, and the locals can’t pay much. My current school is in financial default, and we the teachers do not know if and when we will be paid further.

We are also being pressed to move back to Russia, for multiple reasons, but the climate in Russia is really hostile to us, as Americans, as anti-war, as anti-Stalinist and anti-lock-step with government positions. We (myself, grandmother, and my younger daughter) are completely alone here, only my wife has friends. The situation with those two is not good, I can’t give details, but if something bad happened here, we’d be in big trouble, we barely avoided a complete disaster this last month. So going back to Russia is seriously on the table, though how I’d support my kids in Germany from Russia through this financial and digital iron curtain, I have no idea. We ourselves could get by, though barely. At least we own a home and have access in theory to basic medical care there and a roght to live there, not as tourists or on VERY temporary residency like here. But even that requires money and overcoming difficulties, like getting our car back there through the sanction blockades, and restarting life there.

Or we stay here. I do have offers that might prove more serious and stable in the fall, though I’d have to go and work in another city. The issues and worries about my legs and health, and grandmother and our daughter, would remain in force. We’d have to survive the summer, and this year we won’t have to pay double rent in July and August, but it will go up 33% and the summer camp that we ran for two years that paid for those summers is not materializing this year so far.

There’s more, but it wearies me to tell it all, and if I were not at the end of my rope, I’d just soldier on like so many of you are. We all have our problems. I’ve currently got just enough in my American credit union account to pay for my daughter‘s passport. She just turned 16 and needs an adult passport. I’ve been robbing from the cash that I had hoped to pay for next month‘s rent with, due in a week or so. I may or may not get paid for my work at the school in April in a couple of weeks. Some things I can only say to a priest. We’ve got food on the table for this week, and that’s it. I hope to get 100€ for a translation job I did next week, but that’s how thin things are.

I feel ashamed to ask, but if anyone feels they can help, I’ll take any help I can get. I’ve taken care of myself all my life, but now, hitting my sixth full decade, and still responsible to support children and the elderly, I am overwhelmed. I need incarnate help.

Even your prayers help. I am sure that when I was in the hospital with my daughter, we could have gotten in serious trouble, but I believe St Nicholas interceded for us, in part through your prayers. I’m not willingbto write about that publicly, though.

Lord have mercy!

Lord have mercy!