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Sorry- Prayer Request Please!

Sorry for not blogging for a while, I've just been so busy lately.  But, small excuse, as I'm sure you all have too.  I just seem to never be sighlty caught up.  Oh well, life goes on right? Lol....

School starts here in a week or two for everyone except for my daughter. She (and the rest of the kindigardeners) start at the end of August.  They'll only being going for about 2.5 hours.  I ( nor any other parent) understands why so little a time.  I mean she went for 4 hours to her head start.  So, I plan on supplimenting a couple of lessons a day at home too, in addition to her school time.  This way I ensure she gets & learns everything she needs to know.  I'm so very glad she had such an excellent start in head start here. 

I think I have finally found a home church for my family.  Let's see if I can give a brief explanation on that.  I was born & raised Catholic.  I have wanted to switch out since at least Junior high/highschool.  But, because my whole family is catholic I never did.  I tried to be a good catholic for most of my life.  How ever, the older I got the more I discovered I did not like Catholism.  For my own personal issues that I hade disscused with my hubby & my dad, I finally switched out.  I started going to see what all the other churches (regardless of thier demonination) were like. At first (the very first church I went to) I thought I might switch to the Presbyterian church.  The pastor was very nice & so were the people.  The pastor (due to personal family problems) left the church to go back to Arizona.  I wish (and pray) him the best of luck with his family.  I began to realise that they were too close to catholism ( differant enough for a transition out but not enough for perminate change).  Also, this was thier second pastor in a couple of years.  I had a hard time imagining staying in a church with no pastor. The lay pastors were wonderful (or at least the one I heard was).  But it took them a year the last time to find a pastor.  So I went to a baptist church here close to my house, it was great to insipre me and introduce me to the baptist sect of things.  As much a I liked the little church, it made made me wonder.  Why (like so many of the other churches in this town) why wasn't it growing? Many of the churches here were full of older people but not so many younger people or families. I know a lot of this may have to do with the fact that the number one sect in the state ( and city) I live in is Mormon.  They're very nice ( and I have looked into them) but found that it's just not for me or my family.  I decided to keep looking. I found a southern baptsit church here in town that's very inspiring & insightful & is grwoing with all types of people (young, old & in between).  I have decided to talk further with the pastor & have my descussion (with his  help) make my final decision of joing the church.  Pray for me & my family that this is it. I really want a perminat church home soon. 

Also, I would like it (if you all are willing) prayers for my husband.  He belives in God, but I'm not sure if he has excepted Christ as his savior & Lord yet.  He very much tries to lead a good life to his best ability & and is a good man with a good heart.  However, because I'm for ever in a quest to learn & become closer to My Lord, (and as much as I try to slow dowm in my learning for my husband's sake, I seem to always go faster and am "leaving" him behind in that respect).  I try & take him with me as much as possible but in my preseption he doesn't seem to want  to learn as much as I do.  I could be very wrong though, & hope I am.  But, some of his comments worry me. I made mention (as I often do, not to persay judge, or at least not intentional), about a singers dress that was on TV. I think I mention it so much because as much as it happens I still can not get over the shock of seeing it all the time.  From this he somehow derived that I wanted to shelter my daughter very much.  Yet, I never said anything to this exstent (that I'm aware of).  Because I have been learning that I really knew nothing about being a Christian like thought I did and have been soaking up and contimplating His word lately ( like really soaking it up as much as possible), I have now become "fire & brim stone" type person to him.  Yet, I have never (at least intentionaly) been trying to chastise hime or anything in that matter.  I have always tried to encorage hime to pick up the Bible &/ or go to church thru out our eight years of marriage ( his request when we first got together.) I also have never tried to overly push him either.  I know he realy can not read anything for any length of time due to his eyes. He tried reading abit at a time at first ( I even gave him my Bible from when I was a child because it read more like a comic book, was shorter  with mostly the major stories in it. This with his ok & understanding that he also thought too that it might better for him to understand his first reading of the Bible ever.)  I even offered to read it out loud, as a family, so he could hear it without  straing his eyes if he wanted, but he seemed to brush me off on that request. He occasionally makes comments like "I need to start reading the Bible again" when he sees me reading mine. But he has of yet, I that I have seen, to pick it up again. I want to hime to discover the Word yet don't want to push him. So have not made mention for a while.  I tell him I would like him to go to church with us but only if he wants to.  I don't want him going if its going to be an abligorty (?spelling) thing for him. I found (from my past expiriance & others I have talked to) that you really don't hear nor head what's bing talked/preached about when you're there. (though, I still hope when does go that he'll hear whats beeing said)  Plus, I know this may be rude to say, but I like to meet people & talk with people & my husband is on the antisocial side.  He loves to talk with people at work, for work, & help them, but is not into making friends persay. As he put it me me one day, he really doesn't need friends. He doesn't go out with any guy friends (except for once in a very blue moon).  He has been invited in the past once or twice by a couple of guys but he is always to busy. 

I love my husband very much.  But am affraid our (faith/religous differances are making us grow appart instead of together.  I would love prayers to grow together in that repesct instead of appart.  I would love for Him to show his love for the Lord if he has excepted him, or if he hasn't I would love for him to except the Lord.

Please help,

Blessings!

Jessica 

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10:29, Monday, August 6, 2007 .. Posted by LivingSimple

Praying for you! I cannot imagine how hard this must be on you...Keep the Faith the Lord will surely bring him around...prayers can accomplish miracles.

~Kris

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10:41, Monday, August 6, 2007 .. Posted by Kitty

Our lives are so very similar. My dh is the same as yours, but mine doesnt' even want to talk about going to any other church except Catholic, which by the way, he never goes to that either. When I go to church it is myself and /or my ds.
I too was born and raised Catholic but have some problems with the religion. I too am looking and looking for a new church home. Since I have to go alone for the most part, I hate walking in alone for the first time.
I will pray for you and yours and keep me in your thoughts too, please.
Kitty

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02:17, Monday, August 6, 2007 .. Posted by thecottageporch

Praying for you!!

ThankYou!

11:13, Wednesday, August 8, 2007 .. Posted by CedarCityMom

Hey, Look! I'm posting on my own blog....

Anyhow,I really just wanted to say thankyou to all who are praying for my husband. I do already see small changes happening. Praise God! I pray for continued change & support. My hubby told me that he wanted to go to this church to see what it's like & to be baptosed with me (together!) due to the fact our origanal baptism are not reconized. Yeah!

Again, Thank You!

Blessings!
Jessica