Asking for your prayers

[Maria D]

Hello,

My name is Maria, this is my first post.

I would like to ask for your prayers for the resolution of a very messy family squabble.

My family is sueing me for all kinds of stupid things and reasons. I have tried not to stoop to their level but they keep slandering me in front of the courts. I need God's help to get this resolved in a fair way.

I KNOW that prayer works! and so I ask for everyone's prayers. My name is Maria and my husband is Michael. My family's names I cannot list for fear that they will use that as another nail in this stupidity.

Thank you for your prayers.

Maria

[GOCPriestMark]

Even though I seldomly reply, I do pray for those who ask for prayers here.
Here is something from today's reading from The Prologue from Ochrid

For Consideration
'Whoever desires to escape future tribulations must bear the present ones with joy', said St Mark the Ascetic. People consider slander a great tribulation, and there are few who can bear it without grumbling.
But how beautiful are the fruits of tribulations borne with a good grace! Tribulation is given to us for profitable spiritual commerce, and we let the opportunity slip by and are left empty handed in the market-place.
Consider: Sts. Athanasius, Basil, John Chrysostom, Macarius, Sisoes and thousands of other followers of the One who was most maligned were themselves maligned. But God, who orders all things for our salvation, so disposed that, on the thorns of slander, fragrant roses would spring up for all the slander endured for the name of Christ. If he had not been slandered, would St. Stephen have seen the heavens open and the glory of God appear in the sky? And did not all the slander against Joseph the Chaste serve for his still greater glory?