{"id":321,"date":"2007-01-31T00:27:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-31T05:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pinkhairedgirl.net\/?p=321"},"modified":"2007-01-31T00:27:17","modified_gmt":"2007-01-31T05:27:17","slug":"tired-of-praying-for-me-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"tired of praying for me yet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Couple prayer things.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1) We said goodbye to Merle (our director of ministries) today by way of a party at PowerPlay&#8230; it is like chucky-cheese for big kids. We all gathered around and loved on him&#8230;. told him how hard it was&#8230; and how grateful we were for his time here. When I got up the nerve to speak, all I could think about was when I was first hired. Merle and I started the same day&#8230; almost 3 years ago. At that time I was working in some back workroom&#8230; no desk&#8230; etc. He was of course, in a lavish office&#8230;. and we joked about that. I admired him for how he treated me &#8211; then a 19 year old kid &#8211; like the adult I thought I was and how much I appreciated it. I spoke of how I have been through nearly 8 years of Westside change&#8230; and THIS out of all the changes I have seen happen&#8230; is the hardest personally. It was then that I began to cry and had to stop talking.<\/p>\n<p>It was super hard to say goodbye. I&#8217;ve been fighting back tears all day long. I know physically he isn&#8217;t going far (like 45 minutes away) but professionally&#8230;. this is also a MAJOR blow to our leadership team, our teaching team and to our senior pastor. Pray for our senior pastor during this tough time of being without a right-hand-man&#8230;. and also for our administrator who is having to take on a BUNCH of Merle&#8217;s tasks. We are about to embark on a stewardship campaign as well as open a 3rd regional campus venue&#8230;. so there is a lot on the table&#8230; and less staff to man it all. So, keep us all lifted up to the Father for strength and endurance&#8230; and the ability to find rest amongst all the busyness. If you work in a church &#8211; you know how stressful, busy&#8230; it can be. But ultimately it is rewarding&#8230; we just have got to survive until that point. ha.\u00a0 Oh, and I guess you can pray for Merle too. (:<\/p>\n<p>2) At some point during the past weekend my back freaked-out. Some 10 years ago I hurt my back and formed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/sciatica\/article.htm%231whatis\">sciatica<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ve had several chiropractic treatments since then and have not had a problem for nearly 2 years. Well, like I said, something happened over the weekend that brought back great pain. Could be the result of traveling, sleeping on a pull-out couch, stress, etc., but with my trip to Africa approaching in about 40 days, it is is disheartening to think that TRAVELING could cause this much pain. So&#8230;.<br \/>\nPlease be in prayer for me that this is temporary&#8230; and if not, that I can get it taken care of quickly &#038; easily. I went to my old chiropractor tonight for a minor adjustment but I have an appointment with my favorite back-cracker on Thursday. Pray he finds something that is easily treatable.<\/p>\n<p>Love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Couple prayer things. 1) We said goodbye to Merle (our director of ministries) today by way of a party at PowerPlay&#8230; it is like chucky-cheese for big kids. We all gathered around and loved on him&#8230;. told him how hard it was&#8230; and how grateful we were for his time here. When I got up&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/?p=321\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">tired of praying for me yet?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165,19,45,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-box-of-chocolates","category-church","category-personal-growth","category-religion","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sherecovery.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}