Hello, Everyone:
I have recently fled an abusive and toxic common-law relationship and have been staying at my Facebook female friend's 1 bedroom studio apartment, since July 12th (last Wednesday) when I left with the help of her very kind neighbour whom she knows who drove down to my former residence (a house) and picked me and my belongings up.

I have been searching for an available room to rent, but I am finding this to be rather daunting. I'm on income support (it's what they call it here in Alberta) which was approved earlier this past week. So I have the funding in place, including health benefits, and will also have $1000 which I have been approved for that they call the 'flee fund' I can use towards rent.

I also left 3 cats behind with my spouse. The oldest two are his anyway, although I had named our youngest male cat, but I cannot afford to take him. So it's just myself. I have NO family members who I can stay with here in Edmonton, or Alberta for that matter. I am completely starting over, at the age of 56.

Please pray that before or by the time that my friend returns from Jamaica (she also has gotten married a month ago and tends to fly back and forth from there to Canada every so often, but I don't wish to be a burden to her anymore than I have to be; that I will find a place I can call home that I can move to. Because I absolutely do NOT want to be forced to return to my former spouse. I tried to leave him last year (in August) and had gone to a women's shelter an hour's drive outside of Edmonton, and because I simply had no-where else I could go, I had to go back to him. He is verbally, emotionally, and mentally abusive towards me and can easily become angry and volatile, has called me derogatory words/names, and the only reason that I had stayed with him as long as I did in this 10 year relationship is because of the cats, as he has had two heart attacks (the 2nd one happened shortly before I had met him and he was on work disability at the time) and I was afraid that our cats could potentially become suddenly abandoned or orphaned, and end up being put down, as the two oldest females are seniors and likely would not easily be adopted by anyone.

However, the living environment had just become TOO toxic for me, along with other factors for me to continue living there, including our basement next-door neighbour woman who is a drug addict with mental health issues and the past couple of months, has had these outbursts with yelling, and swearing that made me afraid of her to the point that I told our landlord I was avoiding her at all costs.

I'm becoming more and more anxious about my situation, and while I have very recently applied with and talked to someone at this organization called Civida for subsidized/supportive housing, there may be a long wait list to get into one of their buildings.

Thank you sincerely for all of your prayers and support.

I've been staying at a women's shelter since August 10th, and the 31st of August is my LAST day that I can stay here. So I have posted an ad ''Need A Place To Stay Once I Leave The Women's Shelter!'', because I have NO intention of going back to my abuser. I only want to retrieve all of my remaining belongings I had to leave behind as well as some bedroom related furniture, and that's it.

I prayed about this last night of course, as I am feeling rather anxious and stressed about my situation. I also hope that a friend of mine is able and willing to come pick me up, as I am an HOUR outside the city of Edmonton, AB, (the only women's shelter that had an available room for me as the others I had tried to call were all filled up) or else I would have to fund the taxi ride back home myself, and I don't yet have the funds available for me to do this, but it would also be costly and take a lot of my money to pay for it. (social services covered it coming here, but they don't for your return home)

PLEASE pray that everything will come together for me and that God will provide a new place for me temporarily, until my friend is able to find a place for us to move into together soon! AND that I can safely and easily be able to move out everything of mine out of the place I had been living in, and take it all to the new place with no problems.

I would like to request prayers for a Facebook friend who I just learned last night from a mutual friend of ours that confided in me that she has a drug (and likely alcohol as she also said that she had a pattern of drinking a LOT) problem. She is a crack head, and as her friend, naturally I care about her. Her boyfriend too uses drugs, and is only enabling her drug habit. I've lost a dear cousin of mine who developed cancerous tumors in her liver and throughout her body from using heroin and alcohol six years ago, so I'm rather distressed that my friend is going down the wrong path and has even borrowed or taken a lot of money from our mutual friend and used that for buying drugs for herself and her boyfriend. :( Please pray that she somehow is able to get her life back on track and she seeks help through counseling and drug rehab. I worry that she will overdose and die if she keeps up with her reckless and dangerous lifestyle!! And I hope and pray too that she will finally get back in contact with her friends on Facebook who she has lost connections with for a very long time now.

I have a personal prayer requests: My spouse as of early this morning received a phone call fro his boss, and now due to the corona virus affecting their company like many others here in Edmonton, AB, he is now laid off from his job and this will be for an indefinite period of time. :( We are currently waiting on receiving his last paycheck from his work, and also the employment insurance he had to apply for we'll get from our federal government. So my prayer is that we will not be adversely financially affected, so that we can still afford to pay our rent, pay our bills, buy groceries, and be able to feed our 4 cats as well as buy their cat litter. We also have not yet informed our landlord, and I sincerely hope he will continue to be understanding and sympathetic to our plight when this was completely out of our control! Blessings and good health to you all, and thank you.