A Heart That Prays

While doing my quiet time this morning I came across this poem in the book I'm reading (it's my favorite book ever, btw). Elizabeth George, in A Woman After God's Own Heart, is writing about how to have a heart overflowing with "Motherly Affection". She says, "beginning each day by praying for your children benefits them in countless ways even as it draws them deeper into your heart". May we all be women with "motherly affection" for our children and remember to pray for them daily!



Some have had kings in their lineage,
Some to whom honor was paid.
Not blest of my ancestors-but,
I have a mother who prays.

I have a mother who prays for me
And pleads with the Lord every day for me.
Oh what a difference it makes for me-
I have a mother who prays.

Some have worldly success
And trust in the riches they've made-
This is my surest asset,
I have a mother who prays.

My mother's prayers cannot save me,
Only mine can avail;
But mother introduced me to Someone-
Someone who never could fail.

Oh yes...I have a mother who prays for me
And pleads with teh Lord every day for me.
O what a difference it makes for me-
I have a mother who prays.

-Author Unknown

The family that prays together...

I was stunned the other day when Tink (dd7) looked at me from across the lunch table and said, "Mom, we don't pray enough in our school". Wow! I was stunned. Of course, she was right. We focus all of our school day around learning our Bible story, our Bible versus, our books of the Bible, even our science is Christian. Yet here my daughter hit the nail on the head. We don't actually pray enough. Don't your kids just amaze your sometimes?? It's like the Lord speaks directly through them! I am in awe of some of the spiritual statements or actions that my children have said or done! God truly uses them to teach me daily about His love and His mercy!

I set forth immediately to rectify our little "situation". We designed a "prayer jug" (so named by Tink herself) made from an oatmeal container. I cut out the construction paper and Tink and Man-Man decorated it together. We then taped it to the outside of the prayer jug and cut a slit in the lid. We cut little slips of paper so that at any time of the day the kids can go by and write a prayer request down (or ask someone to help them write a prayer request in the case of Man-man) and slip it into the prayer jug. Each day we have a family prayer time and someone volunteers to pray for each request. This has been amazing and a wonderful addition to our school and our family in general. After all, the main reason that I don't send my children to school is because my kids aren't going to go to a school where our Lord is not allowed. I want to make sure He's in our school each day! Thank you, Tink for reminding me to invite Him in!