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Different friend from the previous prayer thread. This one is about my best friend of almost 10 years.

Her step-dad was in ICU and started to not do well at all today --so my friend and her husband rushed off to travel hours away to be with him and their family. They got there around 10:30 last night.

He passed away around 1:30 this morning.

Please pray for my friend, her husband, and their whole family.

I don't know how to respond. When she texted me the news, all I could respond with was "I'm so sorry, dear friend." That seems so empty. Not sure if it was quite right. But I'm at a loss for words. My heart is breaking for her.

I really would like to hop on the next Greyhound to go be with her. But I really can't travel without some sort of assistance.

I know prayer is powerful --it's just that I really wish I could do more than pray right now.

Praying, Sheenar.

I'm praying!

What's really hard is that her mom's brother just died a couple of days before and his funeral was the day before her step-dad died.

Please be in prayer for her mom. So much loss in a very short time.

My best friend and her husband are going to be moving to Austin in a few months to be closer to her mom. Her mom doesn't have any family left in Austin and they don't want her to be alone. I think it is good that they will be moving to be closer to her. Please pray for the transition for them. My best friend is a certified sign language interpreter --so she should be able to find terp work in Austin with the huge Deaf community there --and her husband has a possible lead on a job.

She and I were talking --and had been talking a while back about both of us relocating to Austin eventually --her stepfather's death brought this to a decision much sooner than planned. We talked last night about this --she told me they were moving much sooner than planned --and encouraged me to go ahead and get on the wait list for an apartment there.

Austin is a much more disability-friendly city and has a better transportation system than the Houston area does. I contacted the corporation that owns the apartment complex I live in to ask about moving to their property in Austin (left voicemail). Waiting to hear back.

Please pray. If this goes through, this will be the farthest I have ever lived from where I grew up (I have lived within an hour's drive of the town I was born in my entire life). But I think it would be a good move.

Praying <3

Praying!

Thank you for your prayers.

My friend and her husband have found a townhome to rent and are hoping to settle down there for a good while. They are moving in just a few weeks.

I am now on the wait list for the apartment in Austin (subsidized housing, so there is a wait). I expect to wait for about a year (I waited for a year and a half for my current apartment). It will be hard to be so far away from my friend, but I am glad she will be close to her mom.