Week 12: Marriages and Hospitalization
Please join us this week in praying for couples going through the hospitalization of a spouse. This life situation can create numerous stresses on a marriage. Just dealing with the anxiety of the medical situation itself is trying on a marriage, but there are other stressors as well. With one spouse is in the hospital, daily tasks do not decrease by half; in fact, they increase for the other spouse, and, if children are involved, they increase a lot. Time get compressed as one spouse tries to be at the hospital to support and comfort the other while still needing to meet the demands of work, home and family. It is not unusual at all for both spouses to become sleep-deprived. Hospitalization does not equate to quality rest for the patient or for the spouse who is splitting time between an empty bed at home and a not-so-comfortable chair in a hospital room. And the longer the hospital stay the more the stresses increase. Finally, a sense of helpless can descend on marriages in this life situation, on the part of the patient because of the limits imposed by his or her illness and, on the part of the spouse, because of his or her inability to make the situation better.
Please pray that these couples will
- Lay all their cares upon Jesus who cares for them
- Not be afraid to let their friends and family know they need help
- Get the rest they need to function
- Be wise and unified on treatments for the sick patient
- Be free from financial worries
- Receive the support they need from their friends, family and church family (be open that you may be the answer to this prayer)
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