If you would please pray for both my wife and I, as well as two of our Grandchildren it would be very much appreciated. Without going into detail about the "family issues" that have been concerning us for several years now, please let it suffice to say that these two were picked up from school today by our daughter (their mother) and due to the fact that my wife and I refused to tell a blatant lie for her........she has told us that she is moving out of state with them and that we will never see them again. This isn't a request to support "our selfishness" but one that is for the decisions that are going to have to be made concerning our Grandchildren and that it will TRULY be in THEIR best interest.
Since they were born, their parents have had an "on/off" again relationship and for the most part my wife and I have raised them. It feels like someone reached inside my chest and pulled my still beating heart out and stomped on it. Our daughter is ill and isn't in the right frame of mind and could use your prayers also. My ONLY concern is that that the Lord watch over them and protect them and keep them safe and secure. Our home has been the only sense of security that they have had since arriving in this world and we have their Father on our side. Neither of them have been in the position to take care of them and do the things that are best for them, so we have had them with us.
I am sitting here at work with a broken heart and feel as helpless in this situation as a person could ever feel. I have been praying for guidance in the right thing to do and would really appreciate it if you could say a prayer for these two children as well as giving us the guidance to do what is right in the Lords eyes.
Thank-You...........in advance
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Winterhawk1960
AS a grandfather I can truly empathise with what you are going through. My prayers are with you and the children. Who has custody? Your daughter may not be in the right state of mind or position to be the best guardian of the kids. I would consult an attorney. In most places a parent, divorced or not, can not take the children out of state and vioalte visitation rights of the other parent.
May God Bless you and give you peace. Your decisions as to what is best for the children may cause issues between you and your daughter, but I believe that God will honor your heart felt concerns. Your daughter may find that she can just do as she wishes from a legal perspective.
I'm not an attoreny, but pray for my grandson daily because of my daughters marital problems and a very absent father.
God Bless! I share your heart on this and fully understand.
God bless you for looking out for the well-being of your grandchildren. My son is a career soldier and my wife and I took custody of our grandson when his mother abandoned him while my son was on the second of his three tours in Iraq. We know what a challenge it can be. May you receive peace of mind from the Holy Spirit and the wisdom to do the right thing. Prayers from NC.
Prayers sent to your entire family for a solution and to save a lost soul. May the Lord God protect these children, keep them from harms way, and close to Grandma and Grandpa.
Al rather nailed this one!
Prayers for all concerned. Why is it that children still become "canon fodder" in such issues within our courts?
It's not that difficult to assess competency and in todays PC world, fathers (or grandparents) are just as good as a mother to raise a child!
These archaic laws and attitudes are innane!
Prayers for peace for you and protection for them. Don't run yourself aground as you may yet need your strength and will in times to come for these kids!
Lord in your mercy...
Prayers for concerned.
Prayers sent.
prayers on the way. We have gone through the same thing with two of ours, I understand your pain.
God Bless,
Pete
Praying for God's power in this. With grandkids in a similar situation I feel deeply for you.
You all have our prayers!
God........PLEASE bless and watch over our Grandbabies. She just showed up "without" the kids and wanted all of their clothes. I told her that she wasn't coming in the house and she said that she was going to call the cops, and I told her to send them right on over.
When they got here, I let them in while my wife and I put most of their clothes in boxes. She sat out in the car with one of her "chronies" and when I took the boxes outside she threw one heckuva fit right in front of the police. The one told her that she ought to consider herself "lucky" to be getting anything at this hour or at all. She got loud and he told her that she had better quiet down or she could spend the night in jail. They left.........and I guess tomorrow morning two of the most wonderful grandchildren that a person could ever have will be taken out of our lives. According to "her" forever. God help us..........and guide our choices.
PLEASE continue to pray for us and those two children. My heart feels like it can't take any more.......but I must trust in God, as this is obviously in his plan.
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Winterhawk1960
Don,
My heart breaks for you. You might want to keep up with that officer's name and contact number. Episodes like that may someday help in front of a custody judge. I pray it doesn't come to that and I pray your daughter comes to her senses, but I have no sympathy for people who use children as bargaining chips. Thankfully with us it didn't come to that. My son was concerned foremost with the safety of the child and finally came around to the realization that the military is not the best place for a child to be raised by a single dad. The sad part was the woman was pregnant when they met, he just wanted to give the child a name, a father and a loving home. He finally realized he provided that by signing over custody to us. He's stays involved and things are working out fine. Luckily he didn't marry the girl, but she nearly ruined his life and finances. We found out helping him do damage control that she had a previous son that was taken by social services and had already moved on to another military base and gotten pregnant again. Continued prayers from NC!
Continued prayers from California. I know your heart is breaking. God please bless and protect these children.
prayers sent from NC....
Prayers from here...
Sent you a PM
PLEASE keep praying for these children, and that the good Lord holds them close to his side and protects them while they are away from us. Also, we need guidance in the decisions that we are going to have to make in the near future.
"Thy will be done"
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Winterhawk1960
Don,
Thanks for chatting. You sound like someone who takes time to be careful and thoughtful.
Be filled with his presence as you seek discernment and then action.
Keep the Son in your eyes!
Prayers for all involved. I won't pretend to know the depths of your anguish and hurt but I hope the innocents here are spared any more pain and restored to the most stable setting possible.
God has a plan that will prevail in the end and will be the best plan.
Matthew 18:6
"If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
prayers sent brother.
Continued prayers from California! I know how I love my Grandson and my heart breaks for the turmoil that you are going through. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Amen and prayers continue
Continued prayers from here...
Father I know you are not surprised by this in my brothers life. I ask you to now step in and change those hearts that need to be changed. Please send these children back to the proper people who will raise them in your ways and instill in them the wonders of your word. Lord how I would like to pray for something different but it would not be in accordance to your word. Lord your word says that you stand closer than a brother and we stand on that promise right now. Lord by morning let this problem be set right and those children returned to the proper enviroment of safety and love. This I ask in your name.....Amen. .......Dusty
Are prayers are with you God Bless
Thank-You each and every one of you. The prayers to return the children to a loving environment have been answered. Our daughter brought them back to our house at midnight last Friday. Praise the Lord, as he knows what is best for all concerned. I would ask that you continue to pray for both our daughter to realize the error in her ways and to change her lifestyle. My wife and I have an appointment with a lawyer at 9:00 in the morning. PLEASE pray for us to receive the Lords guidance in preventing this from happening again in the future.
"Thy will be done"
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Winterhawk1960
That is great news, I am so happy for you and your wife. May your daughter seek the guidance that she needs and finds the path to a righteous life. Continued prayers for you all. Bless those children.
PRAISE the Lord!!! Once again Lord you have shown yourself in control in our lives. Father I thank you for standing in the gap and winning this battle for my brother his wife and his babies. Lord while he is happy for the safe return of the kids he is also sad for the ways of his daughter. Lord she is running from the truth and is being aided by our enemy the devil. You have told us in 1 Peter 5:8 that like a roaring lion he is seeking to devour those who are walking outside the protection of your blood. Lord while you gave each one of us a will to do what we want you also tug at our heart to get us to yield to you and come to know you as Lord and King. Please Lord don't give up on her now. Please put people in place that will show her the way home. Lord now take this whole problem unto your heart and set it right for all concerned. Give them wisdom to do the right thing and understanding to know the truth when it comes their way. Thank you again for hearing our prayers and showing once more we can trust you to do for us what we can't do for ourselves. We again claim 1 Peter 5:6-7. In the name of Jesus and our Father God,,, Amen.......Dusty
Don, I am so glad things are looking up, praying for all of you. Hang in there.
Don, hope the meeting with the lawyer was fruitful. Glad the grandkids are back. Take care of them.
Stan
Praise God and continued prayers for God's best
Great news, Don!!!
From your heartfelt sharing, I know you "Keep the Son in your eyes" but at the same time, are realistic about the players past and present.
May God reach into her life and annoint her with whatever level of reality or angst needed to move her from her present behaviors to newly found submission to He who Knows best.
Thanks for sharing about the babes being back where they belong.
Keep the Son in your eyes!