me and my husband need prayers for our hurting bodies5

[andrew_no_one]

PS Please pray also that Daddy will help us financially too, esp. for my ministry.......

Keeping you are Charles in prayer dear sister.

[miepie]

Thank you Andrew.....

I have heavy bladderpains today again.... please pray for me......
Charles has trouble with his arthritis.... please pray for him too.....

We did go out today for some groceries and we had to go through a little layer of snow! That was very nice! Although it was cold too......
My mom called and asked me about my walking and was very happy when I told her I was doing good as long as my bladder was ok, she was very happy about it....... I like making her happy......

Please do pray for us........

Love you lots,
Mieke

[Frances]

Asking the Lord to be merciful to you both and give relief from the pain that aflicts you.

i'm glad you were able to get out, I have been snowed in , but it started raining in the night and most of the snow has now gone - so I'm hoping I shall be able to get to church tomorrow.

[miepie]

Asking the Lord to be merciful to you both and give relief from the pain that aflicts you.

i'm glad you were able to get out, I have been snowed in , but it started raining in the night and most of the snow has now gone - so I'm hoping I shall be able to get to church tomorrow.

Thanks Frances.....
My bladderpains are not away yet, but I am coping with them better now....... also went out of bed this afternoon to sit with Charles and make Christmas cards and then helped him cut the veggies (more out of bed time but then on another chair), and after we ate I went out of bed again on the first chair to do Biblestudy with Charles and now I am already for a while back on the bed........ but it's quite an achievement to do it like that...... I have been out of the bed about 5 hours this afternoon and 3 hours this evening..... so that's quite a lot!

We are not snowed in (yet)..... the people from the shops downstairs keep it very clean on the street around the shops (a non-car area)...... but if we would have to go see our familydoc now, we'd have a problem....... so let's hope we don't need her for a while........

I'm counting the days till Friday morning, when we finally will go see the rehab doc! I am sooooo looking forward to that for weeks now..... I had to wait 2 1/2 months before I could go see him.......
so hopefully he'll be nice and understanding and help me forward...... I hope for a new brace for my knee and for some therapy to walk better...... the way I am walking now is not the way a "normal" person walks, I don't have my whole foot on the floor and can't bend my feet good enough...... so that requires some therapy one way or another........ Please pray for me then..... the appointment is on Friday December 10 at 10:30 AM.......
Further Tina is coming on Tuesday, so that will be nice too..... she bought all kinds of goodies for me...... banana chips , ricecrackers and 2 notebooks for notes in my Bible (for longer notes, I pull out a small sheet and put that in between the pages of my Bible...... there's no room for more than a few small words in there....... and Charles explains so much that I need room to write........
I haven't seen Tina in about 4 weeks because she was not feeling well....... but now she'll come to help me with the final things for my Christmas cards, she has a special tool for folding cards and to do some other things and then I can start sending them out....... I still have to do some cutting and pasting but that's only a few cards, I got most of them done now....... and I have a text to put under there and I am not good at doing that, so I'll ask Tina to help me with that too...... maybe I'll try a few tomorrow and see if it works...... so then we can go back into the "normal" cards........ of which I have a waitinglist too....... but if I can do it like we did today, me sitting next to Charles, away from the computer and him working on his laptop, I can get a lot done! So that will mean the waitinglist will clear up soon enough....... I hope......

Please continue to pray for my bladder, esp. in the night it's difficult because I don't have distractions then....... and often can't sleep....... also pray for my energy levels...... they are not very high...... as my condition is not that good after all those years on the bed........

Please pray for Charles, he has bad arthritis pains in his whole body (cold damp weather doesn't help), and he especially asks prayers for his grip (he drops a lot of things)......

Love you lots,
Mieke

[Bandit]

I am praying that this will be the healthiest Christmas you guys have had in years. So please, Lord, consider this prayer, that Mieke and Charles have a healthy Christmas season. Keep them safe and warm with their penguins and banana chips. (I like banana chips, too!)

[Quickened]

Praying for you guys!

[Amos_with_goats]

Lord,

I thank You for my dear sweet sister, and for her husband Charles. Lord I thank You for their ministry before You and ask that You would continue to bless them, and continue to make them a blessing to Your people all over the world! Thank You for the things You have done in their lives, and thank You for the love you have given them for one another and for You! Bless them greatly Lord, thank You for them.

In Your Son's Name I pray,

Amen

[miepie]

I am praying that this will be the healthiest Christmas you guys have had in years. So please, Lord, consider this prayer, that Mieke and Charles have a healthy Christmas season. Keep them safe and warm with their penguins and banana chips. (I like banana chips, too!)

Don't forget the girafs! And the cats and our birdies! May you have a great wonderful blessed healthy Christmas too..... and an even better 2011!

Praying for you guys!

Thanks Brian!

Lord,

I thank You for my dear sweet sister, and for her husband Charles. Lord I thank You for their ministry before You and ask that You would continue to bless them, and continue to make them a blessing to Your people all over the world! Thank You for the things You have done in their lives, and thank You for the love you have given them for one another and for You! Bless them greatly Lord, thank You for them.

In Your Son's Name I pray,

Amen

Thanks for that beautiful prayer my dear friend! Praying for you, the family and especially the twins too!

They just came to wash me, so I'll continue this later........

Love you all lots,
Mieke

[Frances]

Mieke, ask Charles to post some of the Bible Study notes you find so helpful in the Bible Study forum . . .

[miepie]

Mieke, ask Charles to post some of the Bible Study notes you find so helpful in the Bible Study forum . . .

Charles doesn't have time for that but I can organize my notes and see if I can post them for you...... it's just a few parabels but nevertheless very interesting......

We made it to the store, it was a bit icy outside, most of the snow is gone melting........
Charles has a lot of pain so prayers are very welcome....... we both need them for more energy.......
Tomorrow Tina comes to help me with my Christmas cards..... I got everything ready as far as I could...... have written all the envelopes, only have to write a few cards because I ran out of material....... Tina will fold some material for me so I can finish it all, buy stamps on Wednesday and get them in the mail asap, probably Friday or Saturday........

Please continue to pray for us.......

Love you lots,
Mieke

[moonglow]

Praying the Lord gives him some pain relief and you too if needed and tons of energy!


God bless

[miepie]

Thanks Julie! I wish the same for you!

Tomorrow is a big day for us, then we finally go to the rehab doctor...... I am so looking forward to that! Hopefully he can help me...... Please please pray for that......

Also please pray for Charles' pain to lessen and for my bladderpains too......

Love you lots,
Mieke

[andrew_no_one]

Thanks Julie! I wish the same for you!

Tomorrow is a big day for us, then we finally go to the rehab doctor...... I am so looking forward to that! Hopefully he can help me...... Please please pray for that......

Also please pray for Charles' pain to lessen and for my bladderpains too......

Love you lots,
Mieke

Been praying! How did the doctor visit go?

[miepie]

Thanks for praying Andrew.....

It was a totally waste of time...... in about 10 minutes he determined that I didn't need a brace, armbraces or a wheelchair anymore...... I just "had" to learn to walk right and I set my goals too low (all I want is to be able to move around in the house and help Charles out here and there and do the laundry).... but he thought that I was capable of much more than that, although I never was able to do that due to my knee....... so we were very disappointed and angry....... especially when he started to say that Charles needed to learn Dutch (which is NONE of his business)....... he didn't believe RSD was a disease either...... and there happened a few more things that both made us angry and we had to get out of there before either one of us was going to hit that stupid man.........

We're just going to rely on Daddy for all of this....... all I know now is that I never want to see that rehab doc again in my LIFE if I can help it.........

Please continue to pray for us....... today is a better today, but last night I had to sleep sitting up as I couldn't lay down due to bladderpains....... and Charles is still having problems with his arthritis and this snowy weather........

Love you lots,
Mieke

[Frances]

What a disappointment!!! Doesn't he know that the older one gets the more difficult it is to learn new languages?

Praying that you are able to forgive that heartless man, and that you will rapidly experience the Peace of the Lord again, and that He will organise all you need . . .