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Here's a prayer to help our readers who are unemployed and searching for work. You can also offer prayers of support to these readers on our Financial Prayer Circle.

"My husband has been laid off since the second week of August.  It has been a very hard struggle for us. We've been through hard times before but never this long."

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"My friend will be getting laid off from his job shortly. He and his wife have 3 children. Please pray that he'll be able to take care of them."

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"Please Pray She finds suitable employment to sustain her living quarters and also help others in need!"

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Dear God,
I pray and ask for your love, guidance and support
in helping me to find meaningful work that will make
good use of the skills and abilities you have given me.
Help me to stay positive, hopeful and awake to new
possibilities. Give me strength, courage, faith and trust
that everything is unfolding perfectly for my highest good.
Help me to receive into my life all the resources that I need
- mentally, physically, spiritually, and financially - so that I
may experience sufficiency, ease and grace. May I be free
from fear of lack and limitation. I surrender this to you
and trust that all my needs are always met. Thank you for
the blessings you have given me, for your light, your love and
your protection on my life, my family and our home on earth.
I consider it done, and so it is.
Amen.

~Deborah Price

Peace & Blessings!
 

Money problems, mounting bills or job loss can be very stressful on any relationship. When we are stressed, we are not always our best selves and it can be easy for couples to fall into the trap of anger and blame. Which is sort of like throwing gasoline on a fire...it simply causes the problems to get bigger and potentially out of control.

If you're relationship or marriage is being challenged by the recession, here's a few  tips that I recommend to help you through this challenging times:

1. Forgive yourself (and your spouse) for your financial circumstances. What's done is done, forgive and release it. You cannot rebuild your lives and the future if you are living in the past.

2. If you're heavily in debt and need help, contact the American Consumer Credit Counseling, a non-profit organization that can help you get back on track.http://www.consumercredit.com/

3. Contact the National Foundation for Credit Counseling and locate a certified credit counselor to in your area to help you. Remember, It's important to work with people who are properly trained and certified.

4. Remember that your core money issues get triggered when you are under stress, but they most likely did not originate in your marriage. They usually represent unhealed wounds from childhood that you each brought into the relationship. Have compassion for yourself and seek help to heal the wounds from the past.

5. It is so easy to focus on what's wrong that we often forget to remember what's good in our  relationship. Make a list of what is working in your relationship and what you truly love about your partner. Share this openly with one another. We all greatly need to be acknowledged.

6. Most financial differences are due to a failure to effectively communicate our needs, fears and grievances, which tend to accumulate over time. Learn to talk openly and calmly and without blame. If there is an issue that is irresolvable, seek professional guidance.

Here's a prayer for all those couples in need of help at this time:

Dear God,
Please help me and my beloved to move past
our personal and financial challenges.
Show us the way to forgiveness,
help us to release the past
and awaken to the gift of today which brings
new hope and opportunity to begin again.
Help us to recover from our financial struggles,
to become free from debt and learn
from our past experiences.
Please strengthen our faith in you and our relationship,
heal our wounds and return us to the heart of our love.
We surrender this you and know that it is done.
And so it is.
Amen.

Sometimes we experience what appears to be a great loss or setback only to discover that the loss was in fact a blessing in disguise. That as one door closed, another door opened. Although, I know that when we're in the middle of it, it's often hard to see.

It's easy to be so focused on the losses and setbacks that we forget to look for the opportunities and blessings that may be waiting for us. Because the truth is, everything we lose creates an opening for something new to come into our lives. We must always remain open and receptive to receiving the good that is available to us...even in the middle of the seeming storm that surrounds us.

Looking back, I have experienced many losses that I now have immense gratitude for. In hindsight, whatever pain or loss I may have suffered was small compared to the blessings and opportunities that followed.

So, while it may be difficult, sometimes the only thing we can do is to surrender to what is happening, bless the experience and pray to stay open to receiving our higher good. God never takes something away from us without also offering us something in it's place. Today, I ask you to consider being grateful for this time in your life as an opportunity to receive some new blessing or opportunity, whether that is.

Whether it is the opportunity to explore some new horizon, the chance to dust off your dreams, build a new life, or the opportunity to grow into more of who you are or always wanted to be. Sometimes, when life hands us lemons, we are simply being guided to the lemonade stand.

Read Beliefnet's Rabbi Brad Hirshfield's 8 Ways to Stay Grateful in Hard Times.

Today's blessing is taken from the wisdom of Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peace & Blessings!

For all those who are requesting help from our Financial Prayer Circle, please prayer for their spiritual and financial relief.

Here are some of the prayer requests for this week:

Gamy and his Wife has been struggling financially and they been waiting for the bank to approve them for there home for over 7 months now. The bank told them yes they could move in and now they told them NO!! Now they have to move out. And no place to go. They have 3 beautiful children...(read more.)

This prayer circle is for empowering single women with limited or no help in their lives. Give them a place to live this coming winter. Don't let them suffer under hunger and lack...(read more.)

Our business is not doing so well so it has been a financial struggle. We are going to lose our home. Needing your prayers for our finances and for our family...(read more.)

Here is a prayer for today:

Father, I abandon myself into your hands;
do with me what you will.
Whatever you may do, I thank you:
I am ready for all, I accept all.
Let only your will be done in me,
and in all Your creatures -
I wish no more than this, O Lord.

Into your hands I commend my soul;
I offer it to you with all the love of my heart,
for I love you Lord,
and so need to give myself,
to surrender myself into your hands,
without reserve,
and with boundless confidence,

For you are my Father.

~ Charles de Foucauld

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