[Magdalen] A difficult time for so many - prayers please

[cady soukup]

Prayers for you Marion,

And for all your friends, family, and concerns.

Prayers for Brud Jon continue, including Tish.

Gentle hugs, too -

Cady
very grateful this season for family, church family & choir, and
friends of all sorts and conditions

On 12/17/17, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
> As we continue to lift Brud in prayer, there are others in our separate
> lives who are standing in the need of prayer.:  the family of our almost
> 100 y,o. parishioner whom we buried on Friday.  He retired in 1983 from
> 38 years of teaching and being assistant head at our local private
> school.  He remained sharp and active until his recent bout of
> pneumonia.  He will be missed by all who ever mnet him, many of whom
> packed our church on Friday for a service of celebration designed by
> him:  For all the saints; The Lord is my Shepherd; Blest are the pure in
> heart (school hymn); And did those feet; and the school leaving hymn
> written by a former head and sung to 'We gather together to ask the
> Lord's blessing'; 'The flowers of the forrest', a lament played by a
> piper from the Toronto Scottish regiment with whom he served in WWII.
> As these things go, it was a grand do.
>
> A stalwart member of our choir stricken by a stroke on Wednesday.  She
> is doing well, I'd say, but has some way to go. She is 84 and very game
> and married a retired priest of our parish in his 90's in the spring of
> 2016.
>
> A dear friend going back to the 70's who was best  at our wedding has
> shared his sad story with me.
>
> My granddaughter (22) seems to have put a pretty seamy time in her life
> behind her but had to appear in court recently in connection with some
> incident back awhile (the fellow didn't show).  She now has a really
> decent fellow in her life and she is pregnant, due in July.  Eeesh.  I
> hope and pray all this sorts out.  How do you spell great-grandmother????
>
> My other son's mother-in-law, a lovely woman who regularly gathers
> family around her,  is fading fast -- doesn't sound like she will see
> Christmas.
>
> Our priest's partner is wracked with back and shoulder pain and unable
> to do much for himself.  He has assorted medical ailments, any of which
> might be part of this -- or not.
>
> The tip of some iceberg above.  I, too, need some help.  I have had a
> stubborn cough for many weeks now, and, worse, no singing voice -- at
> this time of year.  Ah, geez.  And I am feeling ovewhelmed by memories
> and too-busy-ness.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
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