Please pray for my sister and her family

[Seeker]

Hello brothers and sisters,

I have a request that you keep my sister and her family in your prayers.  

She has three young children and recently had to leave her husband because he threatened her and the children.  Without going into too many details, he gets drunk a lot and gets angry when he gets drunk.  She wants him to seek professional help.  

There is hope.  He is now staying with a friend who has been sober for three years.  My brother-in-law's father had the same problem, but was able to stay sober and be reconciled with his family.  He has good models to emulate if he chooses to use them.  My sister has a lot of support from his family, and of course, from my brothers and sisters and parents who live near her (I live three hours away).

Please pray that his heart changes.  He used to physically abuse my sister and went through professional counseling through the justice system, but his heart did not appear to change.  He needs God's grace to change, and my sister needs God's grace to remain strong and to do what she needs to do for her family.

Also, please keep my family and I in your prayers.  I am separated from my family for the time being for very different reasons.  I was moved because of my job.  My family moved so the kids could start the school year in our new location.  I have to stay for a couple months to finish up some work before joining them.  Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it still sucks.  Please pray for my wife as she runs the family without any physical support from me.  Our kids are good, but they are still kids and they get my wife near the point were she wants to pull her hair out  

[Melody]

Dear Seeker,

Rest assured on this day of fast & prayer - as well as the days ahead, I will keep you & your family as well as your sister and her family in prayer.

Alcohol abuse is a common thing here in India - I don't think I know even a single person who doesn't have one/more alcoholic in his nuclear/extended family. This is one thing I feel very very strongly about as a result.

I invite all our members to keep your sis' hubby & all alcoholic in their prayers.

As for your family, I have no doubt that you'll have a second honeymoon when you get back assuming of course that your wife is not too peeved about her hair loss!

[Seeker]

Thanks Melody and everyone else!