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MrsG80inTN · January 2014

Welcome to the Bible Study Check-In. This check-in currently runs 2 times a week on Mondays and Thursdays. Mondays are our in-depth study where we spend time tackling a study (currently the Good Morning Girls “Intentionally Focused Study). Thursdays are our check-in day.

This is a list of the current prayer partners. Please respond to your prayer partner's post and/or communicate via PM:

@LyndsieMarie7 & @megrae12

@EKGibs & @skategirl128

@MrsG80inTN & @MoreThanSparrows08

@dajhuges & @stefuge

@mcnsher0627 & @Ssheffey27

Today is our check-in day. So, tell us:

1) How are you doing on being “Intentionally Focused” on your relationship with Christ?

2) What’s going on in your world

3) How can we pray for you

4) What praises do you have

@mcnsher0627 – have you been consistent in getting your study done before work?

@megrae12 – I know today isn’t a day for patience or thankfulness in the worst of times, but how are you doing? Has DH heard anything? Maybe he can move you all to Nashville?

@dajhughes – how is YH’s new job going? Are you still feeling good?

How is everyone else doing?

MoreThanSparrows08 · January 2014

@MrsG80inTN I'm a little late to the study week... I've had a major lack in motivation to do ANYTHING. I love Eph 5:14 "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." I feel like this speaks to me because I've been so lazy and unmotivated lately. I need to wake up, focus on the future and on Christ so that he can shine light into my life and my family.

I haven't been great at being intentional, with the exception of saying a short prayer before I go to bed at night, which isn't what I need to be doing.

Big changes may be headed our way - if we can find someone to take over our lease at our apartment. We have found a new church that our former youth pastor (the guy who married us) is involved with in a city about 45 minutes away, and he wants us to get involved as well. It's a fairly new church and they are wanting to expand the youth (middle and high school) program, which is where DH wants to be. We are looking into new jobs and possibly buying our first house up there in the coming months.

Prayers for guidance and a clear plan for the coming months would be great. Moving, buying a house changing jobs, and how TTCAL will fit into all that. I really want another little baby, but I'm not sure how that will work if we do move and all that...Though I think our monthly mortgage payment would be at or just below what we are now paying in rent (including in the mortgage the taxes and insurance), so we just need to hear from God in regards to whether we should take this step and what the timeline for it is.

***OLDER SON MENTIONED***

Also, prayers for my oldest - he is having behavior problems at school, and we are kind of at a loss as to what to do next. I'm going to see if the school can evaluate him for ADHD or other behavioral problems, and go from there.

Praises: I can't think of anything huge, but I am thankful that we have food in our bellies, clothes on our backs and a place to call home.

megrae12 · January 2014

@MrsG80inTN I am so sorry I am falling woefully behind on this check in and helping out. I will pick it up on Monday. Also, I literally LOL'd when you said H should move us to Nashville!

I am not doing well at all on being intentionally focused. Matter of fact, I am sucking at it. I am finding that I am having a hard time focusing. I cant see the forest for the trees, so to speak. I seem to focusing on all the little things in my life and making them much bigger than they need to be. It's shameful. I am hoping to get a swift kick in the butt as I need it in a bad kind of way.

I am freaking otu/worrying/praying/hoping/begging that H gets offered the job. Of course, we have yet to hear anything and it's driving us both crazy!! We could hear something as early as today or not until next week! Ugh, the suspense is killing us. Me in particular.

***PG MENTIONED (NOT MINE)***

Found out today that a coworker (who works out in the field) is pg. This threw me for a loop as it was brought up casually and another coworker was saying she finds out how far along she is, etc. Needless to say that sent me to a bad place quick, fast, and in a hurry. It was hard, awful, and I found myself frowning in a hateful way. I was immediately upset with myself for reacting like that. I am ok if clients are pg but apparently coworkers is taking it to far. Sigh* I feel like I am all over the place.

Please pray for me. I feel the pressure of my EDD looming. It's in April 3 days before my 30th bday. I know it's only January but I feel it coming up behind me like a monster waiting to kill me when I least expect it. I am having a hard time accepting it. I guess somewhere in the back of my head, I thought April would never get here. I dunno. Now I feel it and it's only going to get worse the closer it gets. Pray that DH gets offered the job. We both need a fresh start, somewhere new, somewhere where no one knows us. We need to be anonymous for a while. KWIM?

Praises. I have y'all in my life. Seriously, I thank God everyday for y'all. Y'all do more wonders for my heart and soul than some people I see on daily basis. Thank you for being amazing and wonderful and fore putting up with me

I love y'all.

megrae12 · January 2014

@MoreThanSparrows08 I will be praying for all the changes you have coming. I understand about all of that. I will be praying for your son. Hopefully you will get some answers. Also, I will be PMing you. ((Hugs))

LydsieMarie7 · January 2014

Sorry this is so late! We've been busy traveling up to NYC and then spending time with friends. But I have a few moments to check-in real quick before heading out to church.

1. It's very easy to be focused on Christ when we're constantly telling people about DH's new job working with Deaf. But I'm still struggling with making time each day for reading the Word on my own. All this travel, which comes with sleeping in living rooms and having zero privacy since Wednesday, is really starting to wear on me.

Please pray that we can stop getting sick. I have been really fighting a cold and I thought I was doing better for a couple of days...but now it feels like it's trying to head down into my chest. So I'm developing a cough and still have a lot of the other ickiness of a cold.

Praises: Reconnecting with old friends and introducing people to the challenges many Deaf in the world face and showing how people can help/get involved. It's a really fun process and it inspires us to remember why we are traveling and sleeping in living rooms and what not.

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