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[__ Prayer __] my aunt is dying :-(

Christ_empowered

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It looks like one of my mom's sisters is going to be dead soon, of bone cancer. Its sad. My mom and her siblings grew up in poverty. My mom managed to score a scholarship to a big deal school up north, and then she married by dad and did grad school+such. Most of her siblings...didn't make the climb out of poverty :-(

So, my aunt has transportation problems, her health care has been substandard, and she's stressed out about the basic parts of life....as she's dying. :-(

Its just not fair. I mean....poverty...no good. Truly unfair. And the way society is...there's no compassion for most poor people. I remember when I was poor-ish (I wouldn't call my "poverty" back then genuine, struggling poverty...), I had health problems and people kept on tormenting me..."weakling" and all, you know.

Anyway...anti-poverty rant aside...please pray for my aunt. And my parents. And the rest of the family. Its just...life is so short, and so many of us have a hard go of things right up to the end. :-(

Thanks.
 
LORD God, in the name of Lord Jesus Christ I pray and ask that your healing power would flow from You to Brother Christ_empowered Aunt. Lord you said, "Somebody touched me, for virtue Has gone out of Me." Lord I touch You today! I touch You today by faith in the mighty name of Lord Jesus Christ. We reach out and touch You, in Jesus name! And we are healed by Your mighty power, in the name of Jesus, I pray and ask you, Amen.
 
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Dear Brother CE, I truly know the hurt in watching our loved ones suffering in health and poverty. My prayers go up to my Father in Jesus' name for her, and your entire family in this very real time of grief. You mention the poor care she's receiving, and the lack of transportation she experiences; is there any way for her to move in with you so that you could care for her and take her to her clinical appointments, and just transfer whatever healthcare she has to your area? It may seem like an impossible task, but I've found that God can make the impossible come to pass and tolerable.
Blessings to you and your family in Jesus' name. :wave2
 
CE
I'm so sorry for what your aunt, your mother, and your whole family is going through.
Besides illness, there are always other issues to be faced.
May God be with you and your family and may He give you and your family the
strength necessary at this time of extreme need.

You are all in my prayers.

W
 
thanks for the replies+prayers.

I don't know much about the situation. Its like...when my mom graduated HS and landed the scholarship to a private school up north, her mother (the grandmother I've never spoken to, ever) gave her a $10 bill and said "If you don't make the Dean's List, don't come home!"

Well...my mother excelled acadmically....and she never came home. Most of her siblings stayed in that area. Some of them were able to climb a bit out of poverty, into more skilled jobs and such...some of them, not so much (big family).

The parents were abusive, self-centered, volatile marriage. My mom and the other kids were often shipped off to their grandmother's farm while the parents did their domestic drama...then they divorced, and my grandfather's side of the family ignored my mom and all the other kids (my grandfather came from an affluent family; my grandmother was a pretty hillbilly back in the day).

I'm rambling. Point is...my mother loves her siblings, but I think there was distance for a long time, for a number of reasons. Now, they're all older and mellowed and settled and...there's still a lot of pain in the situation for all of them. Pain of poverty. Guilt of having climbed out of poverty. Shared experiences in childhood....many of them terrible.

Still ramblling...I guess I'm saying...its painful for my mother, on so many levels. And my aunt, of course, is dying, with very little money, not so great medical care, and the way the world is...nobody but the rest of the family+my mother really care. At all. (I mean, Christians care, but you know...an older, dying, poor woman doesn't count for much in these United States).

OK. Thanks again for the prayers (keep 'em coming, lol). :)
 
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