A Praying Spirit Throughout The Day…
Today I’m asking God for a praying spirit throughout the day. I should everyday but especially today…
Rarely will you see me post prayer lists on kleverkathy.com. Not because I don’t believe in the power of prayer, I do! I have witnessed results from the power over and over again, firsthand! I don’t post them just because I think prayer is usually personal to the person praying, and although I see a name on a prayer list, because I don’t know them, it doesn’t stick with me to be diligent throughout their deliverance. But I do pray and I will pray, even for those I don’t know. However… today I am posting this request for one person specifically, my coworker Carol Castro.
Carol is from Guam. Her father became ill some time before Thanksgiving. He asked her to come and visit him. She tried to coordinate her visit with Thanksgiving. She already had schedule time off for Thanksgiving. She would be spending extra time in Guam to visit with her ill father. She planned to leave on Thanksgiving Day. He died a couple of days before. She went home and buried her father. While she was there, her mother became ill. She got better and Carol came back with hopes her mother would fully recover. Her mother passed right after the New Year. She went home to bury her mother. While she was there, her Aunt died. She stayed a little longer for her funeral. Carol and I talked about deaths in threes and basically touched and agreed that this was it for her and her family. They had suffered enough!
Carol is in Guam now. She went home to Guam last week for her brother’s wedding. Carol was due back today. We got word this morning her brother (we don’t know if it is the one that was getting married) was fishing and his line got caught in the rocks and he went in the water to unhook/fix it and somehow he drown! Oh Lord! What more?!
As I thought about this today and began thinking on the goodness of Jesus (still yet!) and thought on the saying (since it isn’t really a scripture per se), God won’t put more on us than we can bear, I realized, sometimes He does. But I believe He does it just so we will let Him bear it and make us rely totally and completely on Him! Unfortunately, at times, we go to God as a last resort instead of first choice! God should always be plan A! Actually, plan A, B, C all the way down to ZZ! So often He isn’t. Anyway…. I’ve digressed.
Bottom line, regardless, He is Good!
My heart and thoughts and prayers go out to Carol! She is a believer and I know she knows how good God is in the midst of this storm, her previous storms, and her future storms! But it is hard. Losing family member after family member takes a toll and is a lot to handle. Please keep Carol Castro and her family in your prayers!
The floor is open for any other prayer requests you have that you may want to share with us. Please feel free at any time to express those at kleverkathy.com, but especially today, share those with us as we ask God for that continuing praying spirit throughout the day. Holla back!
Kathy,
It is so hard to believe this happened? It hurts so much when I read this that I am just speechless, I have re-read this 3 times already…… We have prayer all this week at the church. I will ensure that Carol Castro is in my prayers tonight, as well as right now.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our tribulation, so that we can comfort those in any trouble
with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.”
Amen
2 Corinthians 1: 3-4
Thank you Yolanda. I did receive a text from her. It is not the brother that got married, it is the younger brother. Only in his 30s. Oh God… how do you even begin to have the words for this. But yet, He is still good!
Death is not easy at all. I can recall in the summer of 2004 when I lost an Aunt (my mother’s oldest sister), then my oldest female cousin and when we thought all was well, I lost my Uncle (the deceased Aunt’s husband). So I know this is very hard for a person. As for Carol Castor, she is in my prayers and has my upmost condolences. God is good all the time. He will comfort Carol, help Carol. He will guide her through those storms of pain and suffering. God loves Carol and he wouldn’t take her through this if there wasn’t a reason. God, he makes no mistake. Carol has my prayers.
OMGoodness. That seems like a lot for even the strongest person in the world to manage. All I can say is we’re praying for the Castro family.
Wesley,
Thank you for your statement, I will keep this with me for the rest of this month and the next, “God Makes No Mistakes”. This is a hard pill to swallow if you are the person that has lost the most… This is what Carol can stand on, God Makes No Mistakes, he does not have to re-do a thing or erase, we serve his purpose. This makes me understand even more so that I am not here to lolly gag and frollic along in this walk of faith, but do what he has purposed.
Thanks Wesley
the Carol Castro family have my prayers. That seems to me to be an awfully heavy burden to bear but I know that GOD can show up and do some miraculous things in their lives to fill the terrific voids in their hearts!…in Jesus’ Name, in Jesus’ Name.
To the prayer lists I would like to add:
Jaedyn Benning
Lynn Garmon