Please Pray

I wanted to share that our former church body has recently loss their youth pastor. He was helping a young teen and being the servant that he was. My heart is aching for his young wife and her 18 month old son. She recently learned that she is expecting...only 11 weeks. Tara is being such a ROCK and she is an amazing Christian woman. I believe she sees this as another way to share the good new of our Lord to others. Please pray for the youth at the church too, they are an awesome group of teens! It is so hard to comprehend how God uses people to bring others to him but we do know that it was part of his great plan. Praise the Lord Preston is in the best place ever now! No doubt about that, I'm sure Tara and others find great comfort in knowing that. The funeral is planned for Saturday.................

Parent's Prayer

O Heavenly Father, make me a better parent. Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say, and to answer all their questions kindly. Keep me from interrupting them or contradicting them. Make me as courteous to them as I would have them be to me. Forbid that I should ever laugh at their mistakes, or resort to shame or ridicule them they displease me. May I never punish them for my own selfish satisfaction or to show my power. Let me not tempt my child to lie or steal. And guide me hour by hour that I may demonstrate by all I say and do that honesty produces happiness. Reduce, I pray, the meanness in me. And when I am out of sorts, help me. O Lord, to hold my tongue. May I ever be mindful that my children are children and I should not expect of them judgements of adults. Let me not rob them of the opportunity to wait on themselves and to make decisions. Bless me with the bigness to grant them all their reasonable requests and the courage to deny them privileges I know will do them harm. Make me fair and just and kind. And fit me, O Lord, to be loved and respected and imitated by my children. AMEN!!!!

I have this hung o the wall in my bedroom.........if I could just read it everyday and act upon it!! O Lord help me to do just that!