Dearest Doves,
I consider it a privilege to pray for each and every prayer request posted. Unfortunately, now I need to ask for your prayers. I seem to be under constant and continuing attack by the enemy lately, to the point it is beginning to feel like I am being hit with machine gun fire. I ask your prayers for strength and courage to face each new trial thrown at me.
To try to be brief as possible, my grown daughter and I have both been caring for my aunt who just turned 88 years old. She has undergone 4 surgeries since November, (removal of parathyroid, then subsequent brain surgery to remove 2 blood clots caused from the first surgery), lost her 94 year old husband in March, and her latest 2 surgeries (colon cancer removal, and subsequent hernia repair from damage during colon surgery) were last month. So, she's been through a lot to say the least! Unfortunately, after her first hospitalization while my aunt was on heavy doses of Dilantin, my daughter took her to have her will and trust changed. My daughter became the new CO-Trustee, Executor, sole beneficiary, and got a durable Power of Attorney. Fast forward a few months...my aunt was shocked to see my daughter's name as co-TTEE on the one pad of checks she was allowed to have, and every time my aunt asked me to take her to a doctor or dental appointment, my daughter would insist someone else take her, and my daughter is no longer speaking to me since I won't stay away from my aunt. My aunt asked me to take her to the attorney to change things they way she wanted, as she had not seen these documents before. She also added me along with my daughter as a beneficiary. Then things got really weird. My aunt was refused a key to visit her own house, I got nasty phone calls, my daughter moved my aunt's safety deposit box to another bank, and didn't tell my aunt where. When the documents from the attorney came back for her signature, the terms she had requested had been changed again. We also discovered lies my daughter had told the nursing home director to get access to my aunt's papers that had been left with her for safe keeping by my aunt before going to the hospital this last time. Red flags started going off everywhere. My aunt asked me to take her to a new attorney, who promptly told us that what my daughter had grossly committed elder abuse, for her own financial benefit. Not only that, but he felt that the authorities may have to end up involved, especially if her accounts had been cleaned out. My aunt then made new documents the way she wanted things, and we expect severe wrath from my daughter and her husband when they find out. I am just sick over all this, because my daughter was raised a Christian. But, greed can do funny things to people, and I am shocked at the immense greed, hatred of mother and brothers when $ in involved, and total control of another human being I've seen. My aunt is physically and mentally doing exceedingly well, and we both pray that my daughter and her husband's (non Christian) hard hearts will be softened, and they will see and repent of this sin. I am happy to see the dignity that should have been afforded to my aunt has been restored, and she feels in control of her own life now. Please pray for her as she faces radiation treatment these next 6-8 weeks. She only weighs 97 lbs, and I am concerned for her. I thank God I have had many opportunities to share the Good News with her, and she is reading her Bible and praying. I pray she continues to seek the Lord in all ways. Oh, I told her last night when I took her to dinner about the possible implications of Rosh HaShanah this year, and she asked if we could all be together. I thought that was wonderful!
P.S. My daughter told me a few months ago she deletes any emails from me, because she doesn't want to hear any rapture/tribulation talk. She blames me for her lack of a spiritual life now because as a teenager I scared her by telling her about a coming tribulation. And since the rapture didn't occur as I had hoped in 1998, she now thinks I'm just a nutball alarmist. Please pray for Jesus to reveal Himself to her personally, and give us all wisdom.
Then, the day all these wrongs were righted with my aunt, I got a notice in the mail that my ex-husband, who divorced me last May and married his girlfriend, has retained an attorney, gotten a court date of Oct 13th, to reduce child support for our 17 year old twin boys to only $219 per month for BOTH! Raising teenagers alone is hard enough, but raising twins has about broken the bank, and now I face having to pay an attorney another astronomical fee to take a $700+ a month loss of income. Please pray that the Lord's will be done concerning this, that I will find a good attorney this time, and the judge will be fair.
Then last night at 2:30 a.m., I got a phone call from my 23 year old son who had gone to Texas (12 hour drive) for two days with friends, that he thought he was having an appendicitis! He called again at 4:30 a.m. from the ER, then at 6:30 a.m. from a friend's house. He left the ER because they wanted to do a CAT scan and he was afraid he would have to have surgery there, and would be alone. So, he planned to get some sleep and try to get home ASAP, in case this is his appendix. The blood tests were inconclusive, and he is not in any pain yet. Please pray for his health and for them to have a safe trip home.
You'd think that was enough. Well, I also noticed the other day that not only has my patio seemed to have sunk 3-4 inches judging from the paint on the outside of the house (2 story), but then I discovered the floor slanting severely in the corner of one son's bedroom, and the paint all warped out really weird in that corner. It's like the house has developed major structural problems! It's pretty scary. I've felt the Lord's urging to sell the house, but now I can't imagine what I am looking at in repairs before I could do that. Please pray that I will find a good repairman, be granted wisdom to know what to do and the funds to do what is needed.
Like I said, it seems the enemy is attacking like machine gun fire. It's almost overwhelming. And so much has been so hurtful. I thank you in advance for all prayers for my 4 children and myself. With Jesus' help we can overcome all this, but things sure are looking pretty dark right now. I trust the Lord to work all this out to His good.
Come Lord Jesus!!!Kay