Pray for my daughter who is addicted to heroin and in very bad shape, but unwilling to accept help.

asking for prayer over great anxiety...lots of things going on (as many have)--and feeling very stressed every minute of every day. praying that the Lord will show me each step and give me discernment to take the steps to restore marriage and family in ways that I cannot, in all my humanness even fathom. have been trying very hard, through many crises, for many years...and it is hard right now to continue...prayers please...for a spirit that just needs to know that God is here and that Christian community surrounds me in prayer and laying on of hands (virtual hands) and prayer. thank you for all of you who can and do pray.

Still praying. I am doing what I can to walk through things in the family--financial hardship, a heroin addict daughter who just once again chose to cut contact with me, challenges paying the bills, a panic attack, working through to try to make things better by accepting things that I do not like but must accept, disappointments, disillusionments, dreams.

Yet, I am grateful that I am still walking. That I have a coral colored bedspread which color cheers me up, that I have received emotional support and encouragment from unexpected places...friends who like me, have hit bottom...we met on a support group and yet we are lifting one another up to be friends and mutually supportive while we work on these things that seem insurmountable.

I am grateful that I was able to see a doctor for my panic attack and will start work on codependency so that I can recharge my batteries.

I am grateful that my kitty cat sleeps by me and doesn't leave me alone as I go through this tremendous time of aloneness and lack of relational personalities at work and in family that could nurture me and lift me but which are not present now and drain me. I thank the Lord for prayer and the ability to just drink water and to hydrate and refresh my body while I wait for it to recharge. I thank the Lord for helping me understand that I cannot go into a work or family over-performance without major consequences to my own life and health...even though I am feeling the effects now of extended trying.

I pray that God will protect and bring my active heroin addict out of her addiction by being in her life and doing what is necessary. I know that that which I have done for 18 years over 3 addict daughters--prayers have been answered for 2 and now I pray for this third one on whom I have no money or material goods to put in service to that effort as I did, and I have minimum energy as I fight to work and make enough to pay the bills and to be able to live and to calm down and re-center from this past year of trying to help her, seeking her in the streets, taking her to rehabs where she left...and now...letting her into God's loving care and trusting the Lord for her ultimate well being which is not now.

I pray that God will better teach me to stop focusing on caretaking all others and help me put my own self care into a higher priority...as I have learned that to overcare for others always results in ultimate rejection.

I pray that God's will be done...today and forever after...Amen.

Praying for the new job...thank you God. Praying for my marriage to be restored. Praying for my daughter who is an active heroin addict and for whom I am the only one willing to 'support' her with the true love that is so hard to practice...letting Go and letting God. She stopped contact with us 8-9 weeks ago. Praying that she will become willing to help herself so that we can help her in whatever ways God shows us.

Thanks to the Lord for bringing our family through the challenges of the past 5 years...bankruptcy, loss of our home, raising our 5 children to the point where 4 of 5 are thriving and doing well. Praying for our new start in a new country...thanks for the work so far and praying that work continues as we start over financially and praying that the Lord will show us the way as our daughter continues to be addicted to heroin (4 years now) and we pray and seek ways to help her recover without enabling. We pray that she will become willing to recover and take steps towards living a healthy and fruitful life. Thank you Lord for all your miracles and providing in hard times and times where only You can show the way. Amen

Praying for strength and courage to deal with loss of a business, loss of our home, and both without jobs. For opportunities that will work to present themselves so that we can move forward and survive. Also thanking God for blessing us over the last 12 years as we have dealt with 3 of 5 children becoming involved (& in one case addicted) in drugs--for guiding us to resources we never knew about, for helping us assess our own selves as honestly as possible and make healthy lifestyle choices in order to show a way...for the angels that were sent our way--many totally unexpected--to be there for us and loving us in the journey--without judgment, without labeling, without excluding...as the family I have always and always loved couldn't handle & chose to blame and judge. Thank you for your prayers...it comes first for me--and I truly need to know that God is guiding all...instead of me interfering.