A reader writes:<\/p>\n
A few months ago my husband and I discovered that our son has been smoking pot. We\u2019ve been working with counselors and specialists since then and thought that things were getting better and that he stopped using. Apparently we underestimated the great powers of deception that drug users have. Last night we caught him smoking. We talked for a while, but once we fell asleep, he ran off. Please, please pray that he comes home and that his heart will be open to the getting help.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know how we can be this family. I\u2019m living a nightmare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Father, hear our prayer that he return to his family and that your peace be given to each member of the family through Christ our Lord. \u00a0Amen.<\/p>\n
Another reader writes:<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve emailed you before for prayers for my cousin who was diagnosed with ALS.\u00a0 She\u2019s just been placed on hospice.\u00a0 Please pray for her and everyone who knows and loves her, and especially her husband, children, and mother.\u00a0 Thank you Mark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Father, hear our prayer for her complete healing in body, soul, and spirit or, if that is not your will, for the grace of a happy death. \u00a0Give her caregivers grace, compassion, wisdom, counsel, knowledge, understanding, skill, insight, creativity and the proper technology to assist in the accomplishment of your will and give her and all who love her grace, peace, consolation, strength, faith, hope, and love. \u00a0Mother Mary and St. Luke, pray for them. \u00a0We ask this through Christ our Lord. \u00a0Amen.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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