BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members

Subject: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Dec 03 - 01:10 PM

This thread really only pertains to members of the emailed prayer chain many Mudcatters belong to. I'm posting it because of ongoing mailbox difficulties which we are trying to eliminate so that the prayer chain can run more simply with more volunteer help. This message mostly duplicates what was just sent from the prayer chain's mailbox, with one important addition about BCCs not being screened out as spam.

There are some admin changes coming that will affect the operation of the prayer chain. Two people are considering coming on board as admins-- please pray for them to see if this is a task they can do, and if so, how. If new helpers come on board, or if I continue to keep the chain going, the mailbox is going to have to operate much more simply than it has been.

Strictly administratively, there is a BIG change coming on our end, aimed at eliminating the spam that can clog the box and cause messages requesting prayer to be rejected.

PLEASE READ AND UNDERSTAND ALL OF THE FOLLOWING.

<> Effective December 15, 2003, ONLY messages from prayer chain members' recognized email addresses will be accepted. Hotmail will automatically reject all other incoming mail to the prayer chain address.

<> This means that I need a confirming reply from each and every one of you that wants to keep getting messages, so I can click that address into the individual contacts address list, along with any others you supply . (Right now you all appear entries in a group-list.) This will also help me determine who does and does not really participate; right now about 1/4 of all messages sent to the group bounce back as undeliverable.   Recipients not replying by Dec. 15 will be removed from the recipients' list.

<> Messages are sent with recipients' listed as BCCs. If you have not already done so, and you want to keep getting prayer chain messages, you need to be sure the messages are not being screened out by YOUR email program, as spam. Email programs have different ways of doing that. PM me if you are not sure what the prayer chain email address is, to change your settings to accept the messages.

<> If you change your email address in future, you will need to let us know FIRST by sending us a notice of the new address FROM the existing address we know you by.

<> It also means that should anything happen to you, people wanting to let us know about it will have to do it from YOUR email address, or via Mudcat channels.

As you reply, please include something you are thankful for, so I can circulate that out to the group after the 15th. That's how you will know I received and processed your reply!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Dec 03 - 03:39 PM

Thanks, to the many folks who have emailed. Still waiting to hear from several more.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Dec 03 - 06:32 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 02:18 PM

Eearly refresh in anticipation of a busy evening and morrow!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Greg F.
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 02:24 PM

Why not refresh this every fifteen minutes? I suspect interested people are intelligent enough to use the search function to find this, no?

Alhamdullah.

Greg

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 02:27 PM

Not if they have BCCs blocked and therefore have no idea they should be looking for it.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Greg F.
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 06:53 PM

Perhaps if you all prayed they would find it?

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 08:05 PM

Keep me on the list and thank you for approving my position on the administrative board.

Sincerely thankful,
Gargoyle

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Dec 03 - 10:11 PM

That Garg-- he's such a riot!

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Dec 03 - 11:32 AM

Thinking of adding a new feature if I keep this chain goging, which it looks now as if I will and hopefully with designated on-call helpers to check the box frequently, a month at a time or something.

Anyway, after seeing what happened with two recent bereavement threads, I could offer a sublist within the existing mailbox for people struggling with the smae issue, who would like to be in private communication with a small group of others in the same boat. The new way I will be organizing the contacts list would make that pretty simple. As long as it did not fill up with things needing a rapid distribution (every few days at best), I could do that.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 11:53 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 11:59 AM

You've posted and refreshed this thread for seven days running with no responses from you "current prayer chain members". Perhaps it is time to let the thread rest in peace?

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 Dec 03 - 01:55 PM

Replies have been via email. This thread was planned to reach, and has reached, people who had been missing email messages because of their email settings. The thread needed to run till the published deadline-- the 15th. It's a notice, not a discussion. That's all there is to it.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Feb 04 - 11:17 AM

Refreshing, with reason.

To the attention of Prayer Chain folks:

In summary of the above, Prayer Chain members who did not reply to an email message by Dec. 15 were removed from the member list.

If you have not been getting messages (this past two weeks, for example), but you do want to be getting them, please PM me with your current email address.

Thanks,

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 07 Feb 04 - 08:07 PM

Can't you just use your god to magic this sort of stuff around? If he/she is as willing as you think to act on your collective pleas, passing on a few messages would hardly be much trouble.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Bobert
Date: 07 Feb 04 - 09:17 PM

Idiot Bobert here, Susan.

I've been gettin' the Prayer Chain emails and would like very much to continue doing so, ahhhhh

1. Do I need to do anything else to stay active or..

2. If so, like what?

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Feb 04 - 09:54 PM

Naw, Bobird, youse fahn.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Feb 04 - 06:51 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 09 Feb 04 - 02:07 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Pseudolus
Date: 09 Feb 04 - 02:22 PM

I'd like to ask the prayer chain to pray for the people who wish the thread would go away and then perpetuate it by responding!

PM's on the way susan, I'd like to be added......

Frank

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Greg F.
Date: 10 Feb 04 - 10:33 AM

What about a Curse Chain or a perhaps a Damnation Chain? Or a Spell Casting Chain? A Psychokinesis Chain? A Channelling Chain? Possibly an Alien Abduction Chain? Why stop with (christian) prayer?

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Feb 04 - 10:39 AM

Who says all members of the prayer chain are Christian?

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Bobjack
Date: 10 Feb 04 - 10:55 AM

Or human!

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Feb 04 - 12:32 PM

The one thread I never need to worry aboutr refreshing, LOL!

~S~

Subject: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 04:30 PM

A lot of prayer requests come to me via PM so I am posting this here...

The prayer chain is suspended till we get back from vacation around August 8. Nobody's minding the mailbox this time! :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: open mike
Date: 18 Jul 04 - 05:21 PM

so just send requests via ESP, telekinesis, or other means!
I am on a list of people who walk a labyrinth while sending
and/or receiving energy regarding prayer-like needs of folks.
So when you get back and can add me, I will add these requests
while walking!

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Jul 04 - 04:11 PM

I didn't know the good LORD kept hours or took holidays -

GARGOYLE

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Jul 04 - 12:39 PM

HE doesn't garg - but unlike HIM we mere mortals need to communicate occasionally.

try it sometime - you might find it helps get your point across.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Aug 04 - 08:08 PM

Open for business once again. If you thought you were a member of it and did NOT just get a message from it, PM me. If you want to consider joining, PM me.

If you PM me-- always, always please include your email addy.

Thanks,

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Greg F.
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 09:21 AM

Jalapeño

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 10:47 AM

PiriPiri al la Emeril

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 11:02 AM

"I'd like to ask the prayer chain to pray for the people who wish the thread would go away and then perpetuate it by responding!"

Presumably this was followed up? But it doesn't seem to be working. Oh dear...prayer chain fails again. (No wonder tey get so many bereavements to deal with.)

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: hesperis
Date: 20 Aug 04 - 07:39 PM

Please pray for my teeth... I need a root canal and it's almost to the emergency stage. I also need wisdom teeth taken out and cannot afford either surgery. There are also about four other teeth that need cavities filled before they become serious enough to need root canals. I already owe $659 US that I have no way of paying off for a previous emergency root canal where I was so sick from infection that I was throwing up in the bathtub.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 21 Aug 04 - 04:26 PM

hesperis, I feel for you. If I thought it would work, I'd pray. If I had a few dollars to spare, I'd send them. But I've just lashed out on a new uilleann pipes chanter, and I haven't a cent to my name.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Aug 04 - 04:41 PM

Hes, of course I will send that out to the chain, but please-- everyone else--

This thread is NOT a place to put prayer requests. Instead, please contact me privately.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Greg F.
Date: 22 Aug 04 - 10:48 AM

Hal-o-peridol! Amen.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Aug 04 - 08:23 PM

Just a teeny prayer for me, Sue? I'd like a few hundred dollars to help out Hesperis. If it works, I promise I'll spread the word. (Or "PP" - publication promised - as they used to put at the end of classified ads in the Irish News, pleading for divine intervention.)

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Peter K (Fionn)
Date: 22 Aug 04 - 08:26 PM

Sorry, that guest was me. (Don't tell me, you guessed.) I'd logged out to foment mischief in another thread and forgot to log back in again.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Aug 04 - 10:45 PM

Thanks for all the refreshes, boys. :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 23 Aug 04 - 12:33 AM

Hello, i've got bad teeth as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Janie
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 11:17 PM

To All Prayer Chain Members,

I want to try to let everyone know that I am running into some problems with forwarding prayer requests. (Me being technologically challenged is part, but not all of the problem.) As best as I can determine, no prayer requests received beginning 10/25 have been forwarded. I am awaiting consultation from Susan's main back-up (I just now messaged them), and hope to get the e-pipeline flowing again quickly. In the meantime, please accept my apologies. I understand that these things can happen, especially when one is a novice at a task, but I still feel really bad to not be able to forward these requests. Please offer your prayers for all beings in need, suffering, solace, or thanksgiving. And also for me, that I get this mess straightened out.

Many thanks,

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Dead Horse
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 08:26 PM

unrefresh!

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: Greg F.
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 12:16 AM

Hmmm..... Jesus the I.T. tech- interesting.

Can he fix printers, too? Mine's on the fritz.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 10:23 AM

This thread really only pertains to members of the emailed prayer chain many Mudcatters belong to.


ADMINISTRATIVE NOTICE

I have a number of email addy's now bouncing on the prayer chain email list. My life is much busier these days, so if you're on the Chain and you stop getting messages-- please take a moment to drop me a PM with your new email address because I may not get around to chasing you down. Or you can email me from your old address before the change, because (as is posted above) the mailbox is set to accept only mail from known addresses.

Thanks,

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Sep 06 - 10:15 AM

refresh

You know who you are....

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: MMario
Date: 13 Sep 06 - 09:47 AM

WYSIWYG's e-mail is down...

IO will be sending out a notice to that effect on the chain as soon as I can - but can't access from work.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 14 May 07 - 10:52 AM

Reminder-- if participant's email addy changes, I need to know via PM or for you to let us know by sending us a notice of the new address from the existing address we know you by.

The email box's spam settings are set to receive only from known adddresses, so anyone's notified me of an addy change there from a new addy, I will not have received it.

Thanks,

~Susan

PS, this will be refreshed several times over the next week or so.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 09:36 AM

After a long hiatus from monitoring the prayer chain email inbox, my computer is finally up to speed to help me get back on daily monitoring.

I believe some of the members have changed email addresses, because some messages have bounced as undeliverable.

If this applies to you, you did not receive the prayer chain message sent today. I need to know via PM or for you to let us know by sending us a notice of the new address from the OLD address we already know you by.

The email box's spam settings are set to receive only from known adddresses, so if anyone's notified me of an addy change sent to the chain mailbox from a new addy, I will not have received it.

Thanks,

~Susan

PS, this will be refreshed several times over the next week or so to "catch" infrequent Mudscatters' eyes.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 27 Oct 08 - 10:13 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 01:06 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 12:06 PM

h e r f r e s

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: GUEST,a regular non-believer
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 12:24 PM

My boss's wife had an aggressive form of breast cancer several years ago. For chemo she had a mediport inserted to pump the chemicals through her system. Her cancer is in remission.

Periodically she has complained of feeling like she is being "strangled" but no one knew what this could be. She had the mediport removed last spring, but it didn't improve.

A vascular surgeon told them last week that on one side the jugular vein is scarred and clogged 100% with blood clots, and the other side is largely blocked by the same kind of damage. He told them there was nothing they could do. This is a result of the chemo. There is a duo terror here of scars and blood clots.

Next week they see a specialist in a much larger city in the state. I will keep my fingers crossed and think good thoughts, but they are believers in the power of prayer and I think they would benefit from your good wishes.

Thanks.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: maeve
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 01:10 PM

GUEST,a regular non-believer- I have sent a copy of your post to WYSIWYG, who coordinates this thread. If you wish to contact her as a Mudcat member, your privacy will certainly be respected.

Regards,

maeve

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 03:32 PM

I just sent it out. Thanks for including us in your support of her. Updates via PM will be appreciated and yes, I will respect your privacy and your stance on belief.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 10 Feb 10 - 08:08 AM

In another thread, it was suggested that I might take on some stuff, which I think relates well to this thread.

Instead of starting a whole new "Thing," I've decided to share the following, here. It's long overdue, anyway.

~S~



IT'S A NEW DAY, HALLELUJAH!

This post will cover a number of topics set off by dividers that look like this:

===

Thing One.

Sometime since the last writing, the Prayer Chain, with which many were familiar, ceased to operate to/from the email address it had long used. There were a number of reasons, which had been accumulating.

When Hotmail stopped working well with Outlook, my time also had just gotten quite a bit busier (incl strokebrain rewiring). I invited members to take over the mailbox; none volunteered. I left that Hotmail account on a "permanent" forward setting, to my personal email; I deleted the Chain's bookmark.

This also coincided with a more salubrious MudEnvironment for a wonderful diversity of prayer/good thoughts threads. These seemed then and still seem, to me, to work well. I have particularly enjoyed seeing how the diversity of Mudcat is as well reflected in those threads as the Chain itself had always been.

===

Thing Two.

In the same way that most Mudcatters have 3-D pursuits, obligations, and expectations, so do I. In the same way many Catters do not tell all their personal business here, nor do I.

Some of these pursuits, obligations, and expectations would surprise folks who do not know me-- I suspect, quite a bit. :~)

These are occupying more time of late than they have for a long time. I love them. I want to do them. And-- I want to give them the time they invite me to spend.

===

Thing Three.

Lent is a particularly busy time for me each year, as a clergy spouse. This year's will be no less busy-- but in fact much MORE busy, as I have "Thing Two"-type stuff to do this year, and quite a lot of it. Some of it is not only fascinating in itself but is the groundwork for lucrative, compensate, professional work coming down the pike.

Lent begins with Ash Wednesday (the day after Shrove or "Fat" Tuesday).

===

Thing Four.

I'll be "giving up" the BS section here for Lent.

(In the Anglican Church, most of the folks I know "give up" things in Lent not because they are bad, but because we want to focus, intentionally and sometimes with discipline, on something better-- which can still only be done in the Earth's approx. 24-hour day. :~)

This means that folks who regularly "see" me here in BS threads (and who are sometimes led to PM me) will not see me there. They may wonder where I have "gone." Please refer them back to this post, if you would. Thank you.

===

Thing Five. I'm always only a short email away. My travels increasingly include email access. Most of the people who might need the addy already have it (look in our PMs, by subject line "Contact Info," or by PM Search). (It's also in a lot of old posts.) Those who already have my email address are welcome to give it to others who they think might need to be in contact, or to let me know of something to look at.   Thank you.

===

Thing Six: Mudcat, and Me.

Mudcat has never really been an effective place for me in a number of ways that are important to me. It has taken me practically my whole time here to figure out why this is so: It's not because of Mudcat-- it's not because of me-- it's simply because Mudcat does not contain a sufficient number of people who are CLERGY SPOUSES. To anyone who has a different impression-- um-- What You See Is What You Get. I say this descriptively, not pejoratively.... If anyone has a different impression, well, What You See Is What You Get, too. :~)

I have always wished every one of you here the very best, as defined by you from your own view, and I cannot imagine wishing anyone otherwise no matter how difficult things have sometimes gotten. If anyone has a different impression-- What You See Is What You Get. :~) You'll figure it out someday if it's not clear yet. Thank you.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 09:15 AM

Love you, dear.

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 11 Feb 10 - 10:58 AM

Aw, a sweet refresh.

Me too, sweetie.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Feb 10 - 10:52 AM

Thanks to the folks who have sent some nice AND productive-thought-provoking PMs. You know who you are. Thank you.

===

To folks who have just received our personal and professional contact info (Hardi's and mine) this week, feel free to put anyone in touch with us at your discretion... this means (to everyone else) that someone with whom you may not usually correspond might help in a "hookup." I would bet that if a notice were posted here that help was needed with a hookup, a person needing that would probably get a helpful PM in short order. Thank you.

===

I am reminded of late that a classic in non-violent communication sits somewhere in my house. Author: Marshall... (Rosenberg?).... gotta let the name float back up. (I recently had a Mr. "White" mind-filed as a Mr. "Washington.")

Anyway-- this was a peace/justice activist and (IMO) secularist who did a heckuva job on material a lot of folks more usually get via Scripture. He called "violent" communication "Jackal Talk," but that was not the name of the short and rather lighthearted (text/cartoons?) book I recall..... if the book doesn't turn up maybe the title will float into my view... but if anyone else could find an online version of it, it would be a HUGE help. Thank you.

===


Note to Tink (who may see this, and for others who may see this that saw a prior post of mine I don't have time now to find), I have not forgotten about the piece I was going to write and share with you-- it's still unfolding productively. Thank you.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 10:26 AM

My morning prayer time once again reminded me how difficult it is to "give God the glory" (as my own goals lead me to want to do), in an atmosphere where there is a tacit agreement not to get in one anothers' faces about one's own spiritual practice/orientation. I'm just not good at being a Closet Christian, nor want to be one, so I'm praying about how that can grow.... one clue in Scripture this AM was about the Pool of Siloam, which means "sent."

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: olddude
Date: 15 Feb 10 - 12:16 PM

all my love to you are Hardi always ya know !!

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 04:07 PM

Thanks Dan!

~S~

(refresh)

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Feb 10 - 04:17 PM

PS, that book I was looking for. Still hain't found the text online, but it was:

Duck Tales and Jackal Taming Hints by Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D.

Wikipedia entry here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Rosenberg

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: GUEST,wys, cookie corrupt
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 07:58 AM

Getting some really weird results when I tried to reset membership settings to filter out BS, and also when I logged out I could not log back in. Yet the database sez that the membername I tried to sign in on is "taken," so I guess I am "corrupt," not "lost," LOL.

Guess I'll try again later.

But at present I cannot use MudTools to buttress my Lenten choice, LOL, so I guess that's God telling me to use my own self-control! :~)

If any clone can fix my cookie I'll appreciate it though.

~Susan-who-can't-PM

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Feb 10 - 02:42 PM

Cookie fixed or found-- not sure which, doesn't nmatter.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 12:25 PM

BEYOND EMOTICONS

Lent is going faBOO!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: ClaireBear
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 02:31 PM

Oh, that's a fun tool! Does that mean I can't use it until after Easter?

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 02:59 PM

no! :~)

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: robomatic
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 03:06 PM

Isn't it true that people who go to Church Of England pray on a weekly basis for the Royal Family?

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: robomatic
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 03:07 PM

And if that is true, is it considered effective?

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: ClaireBear
Date: 15 Mar 10 - 05:58 PM

Robomatic,

I can't speak for CoE, but in the American Episcopal Church (which is in the Anglican Communion) we pray not directly for our national and regional leaders, but for clear guidance for and wise leadership from those leaders -- sometimes by name, sometimes not.

And I can't tell if it's helping. That would be difficult, without a control group...

C

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 16 Apr 10 - 04:02 PM

Coupla things (random order).


1. I have often been asked to describe what my membername "means." For lack of a better place to refer a NUMBER of FAQs, I find it convenient to put that explanation here (upthread). I had to adjust the punc. recently because site HTML didn't like my earlier effort. Oh well! :~)

2. Another FAQ will probably be, what is "TBTG"? It's "Thanks Be To God." .... A lot less proselytizing than spelling it out as I so often long to do in my posts here, and less obvious that WWJD-- an acronym purdy much co-opted by the culture, anyhow. I have not seen TBTG anywhere else-- I guess I coined it one day in a business email.

3. Altho the emailed prayer chain is no longer operating, I do not object to (but I do not solicit) prayer requests being made in this thread.

4. As the thread's OP, may I say that I prefer folks not to use this thread for religious/religion controversy. Those discussions tend to go on forever; this thread is not the best place (in practical terms) for THAT.

Thank you,


~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Jul 10 - 10:49 AM

Two items:

I'll be away July 26-August 18

I'm blogging and discerning, here: CLICK

Love to *see* you there. Just FYI, comments are moderated and the comment feature can be disabled if need be.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Aug 10 - 12:39 PM

Back from vacay.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 09:46 AM

Re-establishing emailed prayer chain; PM for details.

TBTG,

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: olddude
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 09:58 AM

Count me in
Dan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 04 Oct 10 - 12:04 PM

OK, Dan.

Most of the processes described upthread will still be current until the list stabilizes and decides for itself what to change. Please be thinking about them, but also please hold on to feedback till we have enough people to think together about it.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Oct 10 - 10:11 AM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 08 Oct 10 - 01:23 PM

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Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: wysiwyg
Date: 28 Apr 11 - 02:22 PM

Just a quick note to let folks know that I will not be posting much in gang-prayer threads anymore. For me, these days, prayer happens in relationship. (Threads full of "me too" or "I heard x about y so let's all z" are just too hard for stroke-brain here to follow, even when I've had time to follow them.) Relationships are worth PMs. Always happy to exchange PMs-- or heck, even email. :~)

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Notice to Current Prayer Chain Members
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 29 Apr 11 - 02:41 AM

Susan: "For me, these days, prayer happens in relationship"

Amen to that!!!!

GfS