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Blog: Prayer Power Requested

Some prayer requests need a little extra prayer power. Here's one from a reader who needs our prayers:

"I cannot tell you how much these prayers have helped me. I have never needed prayer more then now. I am a handicapped widow taking care of our 17 yr. old son and it has not been easy for the past four years. I have had money stolen from me and I barely make ends meet. I just want to be able to move from a place at which a brother I met at church 3 years ago is trying to extort money from me if I do not sign an agreement to give him quite a bit of money when my case settles that left me handicapped. If I do not sign it I have it in writing that he will evict my son and I, knowing I have no money to move. I prayed on it and it is now in the hands of the law."

Her comment hit Ruth, one of the Prayables prayer writers, so strongly, she went the extra mile most people won't; Ruth picked up the phone and called Rose Marie. Ruth listened, really listened, to this woman's story. Simple communication can make a world of difference to strangers, and Ruth did this.

I followed Ruth's example and gave Rose Marie a follow up call. After I spoke with her I was left completely speechless. She is a strong woman who has been through childhood abuse and molestation, and the early death of her mother at the age of 16. She moved on with her life, went to college, started a family, and gave so much to those around her. Even her work was giving to others, she worked with the mentally handicapped.

Rose Marie's happiness was cut short when she suffered more hardships in the form of a horrible car accident in 2007. This accident left her disabled, scarring her with permanent mobility issues and memory loss. After this hard ordeal, she suffered another blow: her husband passed away. Since then she has been swindled by trusted friends and sadly, even her own children.

Currently, Rose Marie is fighting a monetary legal battle with her landlord and former friend. She needs to move out of her residence, but doesn't have the funds due to the astronomical rent she was charged and the blatant stealing from her family.

Rose Marie's story inspired me to share her story with the Prayables community on Beliefnet. Please include Rose Marie, and others like her in your prayers. May those who suffer from desperate situations find strength and healing.

May God grant them the serenity to accept the things they cannot change; courage to change the things they can; and wisdom to know the difference.

Read More! Reinhold Niebuhr's "The Serenity Prayer"

- Amanda Rinker

Joke: Funniest Pun Jokes

A pastor who was badly overworked went to the local medical center and was able to have a clone made. The clone was like the pastor in every respect--except that the clone used extraordinarily foul language.

The cloned pastor was exceptionally gifted in many other areas of pastoral work, but finally the complaints about the dirty language were too much.

The pastor was not too sure how to get rid of the clone so that it wouldn't look like murder. The best thing, he decided, was to make the clone's death look like an accident. So the pastor lured the clone onto a bridge in the middle of the night and pushed the clone off the bridge.

Unfortunately there was a police officer who happened by at that very moment and arrested the pastor for making an obscene clone fall.

READ MORE! FROM THE FUNNIEST PUN JOKES