Prayer for Family

Priceless Gifts

Priceless Gifts

Also labeled: Simple Prayer, Prayer, Prayer for Children, Praise, Various Author

Family Puzzle

Family Puzzle We're both divorced with children,and have made our peace with the past.What a gift you've given us, to start all over again,coming together as a blended family.Bless us as we weave our lives together,respecting former spousesand welcoming all into the fold.Make us a loving flock and remind us,that all it takes is a...

Also labeled: Prayer, Blessed, Thanksgiving Prayer, Prayer for Thanks, Ruth Williams, Family Relationships

Providence

Providence Call it kismet or divine intervention—I am where I need to be.Let me never forgetthat I did not wander hereunplanned by chance.You led me to this place.I am on stage awaiting my cue.What can I do for You here?With whom can I connect?Let me do Your work and will,and we shall move togetherto the next destination.Only You know my destiny,

Also labeled: Lori Strawn, Spirituality Prayer, Prayer for Spirituality, Prayer, Prayer for Important Decisions, Planning for the Future

Your Get Up and Go, Got Up and Left

Your Get Up and Go, Got Up and Left It reads this way: "Blessed are you oh God, for giving me renewed energy for life." That’s my favorite morning blessing. I am exhausted at the end of each day, and occasionally even during it, but I...

Also labeled: Susan Diamond, Prayer Video, Prayer for Work, Prayer Blog, Chief of Pray Blog, Prayer for Thanks, Motivation, Ambition

Choices

Choices I watch as he weighs the choices.I want to tell him what to do.“Make the safe choice.”“Make the choice that I want,the one that keeps you close to me.”Help him to be more objective than I can be. Help him to make the choicethat takes advantage of his strengths and his passions,his knowledge and his...

Also labeled: Inspirational Prayer, Prayer, Sue Bradford Edwards, Prayer for Important Decisions, Prayer for Children, Prayer for Inspiration

Locked Up

Locked Up First, a call.He didn't show up for work.A nagging worry as the search began.No results: He's nowhere to be found.Incarcerated.My son, no longer free.Caught in his own reckless stupidity.Yet not only he suffers:I'm in pain, for him, for me,for all of us who love him.Help me to bear the weight of worry.Bring a...

Also labeled: Spirituality Prayer, Prayer for Spirituality, Prayer, Forgiveness, Various Author, Loneliness, Jail, Prayer for Children

Perfect Place to Be

Perfect Place to Be Family pictures line our shelves,pencil marks on the wall.They grew so fast,the years speeding by.Boxes stacked upon each other,bubble wrap and memories.Nothing left for me to donate;one last look before I go.

Also labeled: Simple Prayer, Prayer, Prayer for Reflection, Prayer for the Home, Prayer for Shelter, Heidi Haller

Sacred Doesn’t Have to be Serious

Sacred Doesn’t Have to be Serious He found a letter among her things; it was addressed to her three boys. It was written when her handwriting was still perfect; before her health declined and her hands began to shake. Their...

Also labeled: Chief of Pray Blog, Spiritual Connection, Family Relationships, Prayer for Parents, Prayer Video, Prayer for Children, Susan Diamond, Prayer Blog

Three Hots and a Cot

Three Hots and a Cot Please help my brotherwho's in a bind again.Give him patienceto deal with the bureaucracy of recovery.Help him navigate the systemwithout becoming entangled in red tape.Release him from the jail of his own making. Help me to keep my coolwhen people try to make his problems,mine to...

Also labeled: Request Prayer, Prayer, Family Relationships, Prayer for Brother

Thankfulness

Thankfulness I attended an interfaith women's group meeting on Saturday. The topic was loss – of all types – and how we can move beyond it. As the morning went on, more of the older members of the group discussed the loss they felt about their childhood.

Also labeled: Mary Boscaino, Prayer of Appreciation, Prayables Team Blog, Life Lesson, Prayer Blog

Greater Peace

Greater Peace I have no idea what today will bring.I know only that I will have to react quickly,as I take stock of the situation.Help me seize the information I needto give each patient the best possible care.Help me remain calm in...

Also labeled: Request Prayer, Prayer, Sue Bradford Edwards, Prayer for Work, Prayer for Doctor, Prayer for Nurse, Prayer for Caretaker

Family Complete

Family Complete I have already lost a baby.  I have already lost holidays with a little one.  I have lost peanut butter fingerprints in the kitchenand unidentifiable globs

Also labeled: Request Prayer, Prayer, Faith, Stress, Abigail Wurdeman, Fear, Loss of a Child, Mourning, Birth, Rebirth

One, Big, Happy

One, Big, Happy Our driveway is a lot for rental cars,our basement a campsite:blankets on couches,air mattresses, sleeping bags.Upstairs, the cacophony of catching up:Look how the kids have grown!How was the vacation?Gee, I miss Gram.Thank You for bringing us together.Thank You for gathering us safely.Thank You...

Also labeled: Lori Strawn, Thanksgiving Prayer, Prayer for Thanks, Prayer for Parents, Prayer for Children, Prayer for Grandparents, Humble, Trust

Peace Plea

Peace Plea Please, protect my child.Please, protect other mothers' children.Please, give me peace.Please, give other mothers peace.Please, give the world peace.This is the peace only You can give.

Also labeled: Karen Laven, Prayer for Peace, Peace Prayer, Prayer for Children

Whole

Whole Though I stomp and whine and moanfor my own idea of completion,I see that You have already made me whole.And so I praise youfor the body that sustains meand the spirit that fills me,for the friends that support meand the family that guides me,for the work that challenges meand the play that thrills me,

Also labeled: Send a Prayer, Abigail Wurdeman, Prayer for Thanks, Growing Up, Vitality, Purpose Driven Life, Prayer, Life Lesson, Thanksgiving Prayer, Prayer for Friendship, Girlfriends, Prayer for Work

Peace-Filled Families: Part Two

Peace-Filled Families: Part Two While I mentioned that my daughter and her husband seem to have taken on the positives of one another's personality to present a united parenting team, that's not always the case in families. My own marriage had its ups and downs, and my husband and I were not always on the same page with regard to discipline, allowances, curfews, and the list goes on.

Also labeled: Prayer Blog, Prayables Team Blog, Mary Boscaino, Family Relationships

A Jew Writes a Christmas Letter

A Jew Writes a Christmas Letter Holiday Update 2010 Dear Friends and Family, Well, we made it through another year and here are some of the highlights. David thought he had another attack of gout, this time in his ankle, but when it didn’t go away after taking the Allopurinol, he finally went to see a podiatrist who...

Also labeled: Family Relationships, Holiday Prayer, Chief of Pray Blog, Christmas, Prayer Blog, Susan Diamond

Keeping Perspective

Keeping Perspective As always, my to-do list is far too long with groceries to buy, the house to clean, and yard work to do. Please help me keep

Also labeled: Sue Bradford Edwards, Holiday Prayer, Fourth of July, Serenity Prayer, Prayer for Serenity