PLEASE PRAY FOR MY SISTER LINDA

So I am cleaning out a record cabinet that is the size of a night stand that I have repurposed for cook book storage and I run across my sister Linda's address and phone number that I had lost track of in one of the cook books.

I think this is not an accident maybe God wants me to call her and I mention this to tourist who is typing on CC but I am afraid to make the call because my sister and I did not grow up together as my Dad was married to her Mother before and divorced her. Linda has never wanted to have anything to do with me and throughout my life (I am 12 years younger) I have made attempts to connect with her and they have all been miserable failures.

At any rate I was afraid to call her because of the rejection, but tourist said go ahead and make the call. I say I don't know what to say to her and he says the Holy Spirit will give you the words to say. So I make the call and it rings many times and I am kind or hoping that she will not answer but then she does.

I say is this Linda and she says yes and I say this is Darlene, Harold's daughter, we have the same Father, but I can't say I am her sister as this has caused many problems in the past so I just don't go there. She says What do you want? I say nothing I just wanted to try to connect with you. And then she hung up on me....

I have never understood why she doesn't want to have anything to do with me and over the years God knows I have tried and since I am 59 add 12 she is now 71 years old and I just want to help her if she needs it...Anyway my heart is broken at this riff that I don't know how to fix and God does know I have tried.

Please pray for her, as I don't really know her even though we are half sisters, I am a person that loves my family even her even though I don't know her. Somehow she has been really hurt by someone or something in the past and has never accepted me but it bugs me now knowing she is so much older and we even live in the same area and I could help and have a relationship with her if she would allow it. I don't know if she knows God, but I would like for her to. I sent a Christmas Card a couple of years ago and it was not returned so she got it.

I don't really know what to request for her so lets just go basic.... Pray for her salvation please as I will be doing, I wish she would consent to meet or talk to me, but I will just pray for now. God did not let me find her address and phone number for no reason today I know He has His reasons, so please pray with me for her. Thanks Darlene

I agree....maybe even though this phone call seemed for nothing....maybe just maybe it opened her heart...
She might even be thinking right now.......how foolish she has been........you are a sister I would not throw away...
Allow God to work on her heart....and know its not you but something you reprsent gives her this hurt.....
I will pray for our sister linda dear friend....your life is making a giant shift now and who knows....your small family
just might change to a bigger one then you ever imagined......peace ..love ...and may this be every thing you ever
dream it could be.........jo

Excellent! go ahead,God is with you, Lord Jesus bless the sisters to get reconciled remove bitterness towards one another, and bless sis linda specially to open her heart for her sister darlene, and also for you Lord, Amen.

Thank you so much Levi you are always on top of the prayer list for us. God bless you.

Thank you so much....I am very close to all my family and Linda is the only one I don't know....It is so weird that we both were born in Indiana and I moved to Florida in 1979 then several years later Linda moved here and we live 30 mins apart I could see and have a relationship with her and help her and she doesn't want to have anything to do with me. I just don't know or understand why as she has never given me a real chance.

I just have to pray and trust God will work this out. Thanks for your encouragement and prayers.

Dear Father In Heaven

I have not been able to get my sister off my mind since the call yesterday. I don't know why I found the note with her address and phone number on it, but I believe that You wanted me to find it. Please send Your angels to guard and protect her. I don't understand why she resents me and You know I have tried to have a relationship with her in the past. Father why do people hold on to resentment and how can they hold it for years? I have never had a chance to get to know her. Please break down the wall that she has put up and help me to get through to her. You can do this as nothing is impossible for You. I will do my best to share Your love with her if given the chance she is 71 now and I don't know if she knows You or not. What did my family do to her that she does not want to get to know me? I may never know, but please help her to find You and receive the salvation that You offer. If I can't be a part of this then please send a Christian to cross her path so that she may receive this gift. I wish I knew her I've never had that chance, but You know all about her so please help her please break through the wall of resentment that she clings to. I pray in Jesus Name Amen.

I just need to tell you have much I connect with you on this. My father is from Indiana, Greenfield, he was 27 when I was born, which makes him about Linda's age. I have never met him as mom left him before I was born and then told him to stop sending support correspondence when she married dad. Several years back I dialed information and was connected but a lady answered. I did not introduce myself and just went for it asking for him by name and she hesitated a minute but just said, "no". I don't remember how I asked for him I was nervous, she may have thought I was a bill collector, for all I know. For whatever reason, it didn't happen and I might have even been a little relieved that it didn't. I think I was more curious to find out about my two older sisters, all I knew was that one is a red-head and one is a blonde, and their mother had left them with my grandmother. I have decided, since, that I will meet all of them, eventually, Lord willing, and until then I will spare them that awkward moment.

I think it is hard as there is unresolved issues it looks like for both of us and knowing you have a family member that you don't know at least for me makes me feel incomplete as they are a part of us. I would love to have that older sister relationship, but can't when she is not a willing participant... I have a pit bull mentality in that I don't want to let go, but hang on and keep trying... I leave it with God.... It must be also very hard for you since this is your father that you don't know it is a part of you unresolved I get it.

Dear Father in Heaven

Please help Mem with this situation as well and open doors for her to someday meet her father and 2 sisters that she does not know. Help us in our messed up world to get some resolution to these open issues. I ask also for their salvation as we may not know their status with You help them to find and accept the free gift offered to them.... I pray in Jesus Name Amen.

Dear Father In Heaven

Still praying for Linda as she is on my mind. Just help her to get to know You and accept Jesus as her Savior. Please bring a Christian across her path someone that can lead her to You. I leave Linda with You as only You can fix any problems she may have. Just please help her find You I pray in Jesus Name Amen.

Please add my prayer to yours for your sister Linda to find her way to the Lord. Jesus said that where two or three are gathered in His name that He will be in their midst. The Christian that the Lord has crossed her path with is you.

Dear Father In Heaven

Please be with Linda around the holidays and help her to find You and to give her heart and life to You accepting Jesus as her Savior I pray in Jesus Name Amen.

O.K. so never wanting to say or accept never.....I mailed a sort of New Years type card to Linda with a couple of Christian flyers one on forgiveness and one on praying and the card was an apology for anything I might have done or said that would have hurt her in any way.

Honestly we have not been around each other enough for me to have done anything really and I have no clue as to why or what I have done but felt I must ask for the apology and send the card so I did.

Dear Father In Heaven

You made Linda just as you made me and we both have a purpose in this life that You created us for. I pray that Linda will open her heart to You and accept Jesus as her Savior if she has not done so. Father I have tried to help her or even be in touch with her and I hold no resentment or anger towards her. Please help her find and accept You that is all I want. She never has to talk to me I can accept that, but help her to find You is my prayer in Jesus Name Amen.

Amen. God will do your prayers come true.

Hello Darlene. Im praying for you and Linda right now. I hope she finds it in her heart to talk to you .

Just got off of the phone after about an hour and a half call with Linda who made the call to me!!! Christmas has come early for me and Praise God He hears and answers prayers.

I picked up the phone and she said is this Darlene and I said yes. Well this is Linda and what I have to say is hard for me to say and so I just listened and let her talk.

She said she had anger for my mother because she made her feel like she didn't want her to see our father when she came to visit dad.... She said I realized that I was holding on to that anger and transferring it to you. She said when I called last year that she had hung up on me because it brought back all the anger she had held for my mother and she realized that she had taken it out on me.

She apologized for hanging up on me and said it wasn't right and I accepted her apology and we proceeded to talk and work some things out. She called me today because she got the Christmas card that I sent to her today and thought about how it was wrong of her to have hung up on me like that.

At the end of the call I told her I had to give credit where credit was due that I had prayed for her a lot and that God was the one at work. She said she was here if I needed her and I had written that in the card and given her my phone number.

Isn't God good? I don't know where this will lead, but at least I know that if I give her a call she will answer the phone and talk and maybe we will be able to build a relationship we have never had a chance to have before. So I ask that you please continue to pray for her and me that God will make something good out of the bitterness she has harbored over all these years and we can get to know each other.

Thanks Dad for the connection....Amen

Darlene, I will pray for you and Linda. Your situation reminds me to my own brothers where i have no contact with.