Prayer Request (and a request for help)

A reader writes:

I have been reading your blog for… oh my, have you really been blogging for the past 8 years? A long time. I’ve read so many prayer requests and pleas for help people have sent you. I didn’t intend to ever be one of those people myself, though we’ve been in many tight spots.

But this time we’re in a tight spot I don’t see a way out of. My husband is very ill (painful GI problems to the point of weight loss and malabsorption), and very depressed. Through a combination of illness and bad judgment, he is also unemployed. I’m trying to work freelance (I am a copyeditor and proofreader) but as you know, the economy isn’t very friendly. We have two children and a third in utero.

Medicaid told me this morning that our application will take up to three months, with no guarantee that my husband will qualify for coverage at the end of it. Since we don’t have a diagnoses (after 6 months of one misdiagnoses or another, and a hospital stay that actually made him worse), we have no hope of DH’s health improving without more diagnostic tests. His GI wants a colonoscopy and endoscopy that we simply cannot afford.

Can you ask your readers to pray for us? If anyone feels so moved, you can also share my paypal address: [email protected] . I promise any monetary help will go towards medical bills and basic necessities. I can be reached at the same address if anyone would like to hire me for an editing project.

I want more than anything to be in the position to give help, when so many need it, rather than be asking for help. But this is where I am. It is embarrassing to beg, but it would be tragically prideful not to when my family’s needs are so great.

This is a good chance to do a work of mercy to the least of these. If you can spare a few shekels, please do!

Father, hear our prayer for healing and provision for this family in this trying hour through Christ our Lord! Mother Mary, St. Joseph the Worker and St. Luke, pray for them!