Dear Heavenly Father, I contracted with myself to spend some time in prayer before I returned to working on the talk for MOPS on Thursday. Here I am. I'm a little bit tired, but tonight was a gift. My only client canceled (although for a horrible reason--her daughter is in jail and the father of the grandkids committed suicide in jail), and I came to Barnes and Noble to spend some time with You. It's a date! So would You meet me here?
(I took a moment or two to look for an old worship song I knew. I couldn't find it, but the idea was "I'm here...Meet me here.")
Who but You knows how many women will be with us on Thursday? Please bring the ones that need to come. Let me be sensitive to them and to Carra's desire to get the wrapping done early--maybe by 8 p.m. so that she can leave. Let me be both Biblically sound and clinically competent, which has been my career-long prayer. Please give me exactly what someone needs, or several someones need, to be effective mothers and excellent examples of emotion management.
This is an honor to speak, of course, and I want to point women to You for their strength and wisdom in parenting. I hope that I speak from the experience of relying on You for that strength and wisdom. What would my daughters say?
Okay, the timer went off. I will do a bit of research now and get a PowerPoint up, mostly for myself to stay on track. "Bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory (my influence), and [may] your hand ... be with me, and [may] you ... keep me from harm!" 1 Chronicles 4:10
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Urgent: Kimberly's Aunt
Dear Lord, I never again want to promise to pray without actually praying. Kimberly's Aunt Barbara is in a coma secondary to anoxia for 12 minutes (somehow related to hip replacement surgery). What is the appropriate prayer in a situation like this? Grace...comfort...wisdom...mercy! Lord, have mercy. I don't know how old Barbara is, but that doesn't really matter. Have mercy on her, on the family, and (from my perspective) specifically on Kimberly. Give her safe travel and the knowledge and experience of your presence. In the healing name of Jesus~~Amen.
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