Prayer for the Needy

Hey friends, Please pray with us, our raft just flipped. (Please let us know if you care to STAY on this prayer list)

• Pray that God would remind us that HE is our king. Pray that our Father in heaven would remind us that HIS sorrow for our fallen state is far far greater than our puny wimperings. Pray that Amy and I would rest rest rest rest in JESUS.
• Pray that Amy and I would find or be given wisdom concerning our call, our careers, and our son. Without God's Merciful wisdom in our lives, we will move into survival mode and make decisions from our flesh, not from the Spirit.
• Pray that we (especially ME- Matthew) won't despise our son (in the deepest darkest most septic parts of our hearts) for making us less versatile people, less agile and free people, less needy people. I know, its sick, but I felt a twinge of it this morning, and I hate it, please pray that God crushes Satan's face in my heart!
• Oh yeah, and keep praying for sleep, we feel like the walking dead!
• Pray that God would call others to the kingdom work he is calling us to, through prayer, financial support, and living missionally.

Care to know the circumstances behind these needs? Amy received a call from her employer this morning (she is currently on maternity leave). To make it short, they offered her a $10,000 raise and a new position as Senior Operations Analyst. My wife is crazy smart! Her employer knows it! But Amy also has seen a dramatic change in the last two months as our son has dug his way into Amy's heart and now he has taken up shop there. Hallelujah! That's great news. It also means that we are having to face what to do in the meantime. Three choices are for Amy to

• return to work and spend $10,000 a year on daycare,
• return to work for two months until January 1, when, God willing, I will have raised enough support to go full time at World Harvest.
• Find another job (which would hopefully allow for Amy to either work from home, or work with Brighton in hand - so to speak)

The problem with no. 2 is that Amy will likely have to accept the new position in order to go back to work at all, and if so, she will be trained for the new position, and then in December offer her resignation for January 1. We feel this is manipulative and awkward. Obvious problems, and/or hurtles for 1 and 3. A 4th option, might be to counter her employers offer by subtly reminding them what an asset Amy is and suggesting/asking if they might consider a work from home, or work mostly from home position for her. HIGHLY unlikely, although it was also unlikely that the Red Sea would move in two opposite directions and up and create a trough which the hebrews could move through, but pharaoh and the "bad" people could not! So, WHO DO WE BELIEVE? THE ACCUSER, OR THE KING! PLEASE PRAY. Love all yall, Matthew (& Amy and Brighton)