Other Daughter!

Lord, now it's time to pray for my younger daughter.  I get the sense that she is doing really well at college, and for that I am so grateful.  Please bless her studies.  I have done the Jesuit education "thing," and I know it's challenging.  I also know that she can rise to the challenge!  Please bless her relationships and allow her to be a shining light for You in that place.  THANK YOU for having led her to a church where she can be comfortable.  I cannot wait to hear about it!  Please keep her physically and spiritually safe in the city.  You live there, too!  In fact, an urban ministry is something right up her alley, I think.  Meet her every need, and thank You again for providing for this wonderful education.  (P.S. It's expensive, Lord, and the savings in her college account have taken a big hit in this recession.  We are leaning on Your promise to provide where You guide.)  In the most excellent name of Jesus.  Amen!

Praying for Daughter

Lord, one of the wonderful things I love about my older daughter (not that this is not true for younger daughter as well, but that is another post) is her dependence on prayer.  She frequently texts me and asks me to pray for her tests at college.  I am in every instance honored and humbled.  So it is today as well.  She has a Developmental Psychology test today, a big one, since it is in the middle of the semester.  She mentioned it when we were up at the college for Homecoming/Family Weekend, and I remembered it last night and offered to pray for her.

The test happens in 11 minutes, Lord.  Please bless her faithful, trusting heart.  Thank You that she knows that her success ultimately comes from You and not from her own efforts.  Please grant her outstanding recall of the material as well as, and maybe more importantly, an ability to apply the material creatively and competently.  Help her to breathe deeply, to release any anxiety into Your hands, and to know that all her paths are directed by You.  For Your sake as well as for hers, may she please earn a great grade.  Most of all, may her strengths always be used by You for Your glory and the extension of Your kingdom.  Please encourage her, dear Lord, by success in this test and in this course.  In the name of Jesus Christ, in Whom all wisdom and knowledge resides.  Amen!