I'd like to hear from this small group, to know what's going on in your life, to become more involved in prayer to lift each other's needs up. How do you feel about prayer? Is it something you do once a day, all day? Are you God-conscious all the time? Do you ever see your prayers get answered and know for sure that it is God at work?

I have been going through a difficult time these last few years attempting to get a business off the ground and it has been traumatic. I have walked (crawled) through that dark valley, where is the frigging still waters?? I have been up against odds that have been overwhelming in their complexity. People that I thought would support me, turned their backs on me. People that I thought could do well with us, turned out to be liars and fools. The disappointment doesn't end. I wonder if it's LA that's so terrible to do business in...if it's not so hard in other places? I pray constantly and keep trusting in God even in the darkest times, altho yesterday I had a bit of a breakdown. For the first time in the last most difficult year of the three, I wanted to quit. But I can't quit, I have nothing else to do and this is the most likely to get me to a better place than going to get a job at this point. Well we did manage to get a verbal commitment today from someone who wants to work with us, to be a vested participant, but in the end he was disappointing also because behind the bravado he was less than he pretended to be also. And who knows if the verbal will actually put the money in my hand or not. I'm just trusting God that it will, because I don't see another way forward. Can you please say a prayer for me that God's grace smiles on me and that things progress more positively going forward? I'm dumbstruck by how people really are out there.