prayer: 07-01-06

I haven't been on in a while and I should be! I trust you are all doing well and enjoying your summer. It's been beautiful here in Lexington. My sister just left after a five day visit and so I'm a little sad. I need prayer:

1. My rewrites of Quaker Summer are due July 17. So much about the book has changed and I'm feeling quite debilitated.
2. The narrative portion of Justice in the Burbs, a book Will and I are writing together, is due August 1. I have about 10,000 more words to write.
3. My next Waterbrook book is due late Autumn. I'm about 13,000 words in.
4. My first teen book for NavPress is due 1 December. I'm halfway through the first draft.

To top off all of this we are being hit hard in crazy ways:

1. A member of our community stole all of Will's CD collection (his CD's would be akin to having my jewelry stolen as far as how he connects them with memories: the people who bought them, the times we listened to them and shared together, a lot of it during our children's growing years; he also stole about 1,200.00 from us as well.

2. I'm dealing with a back sprain from PAPAfest where I slept on an underinflated air mattress. I don't even want to go to bed at night because I know the next morning the pain will be awful.

3. I'm being hit like crazy with anxiety, laying in bed at night with my heart racing, feeling fear which I know is not of God.

4. Will had a spill on his bike and he really conked his head and scraped up and bruised his leg.

5. Gwynnie's getting headaches again despite medication.

I'm not normally a paranoid person, but I feel like we're under attack in some way. Your prayers would be so much appreciated. Thanks so much.