Greeting Prayer Warriors,
Summer break is winding down and kids are back to school, off to college, or even perhaps starting their first real job. Lots of mixed emotions linger in the air. Or perhaps that’s an era long gone by for you. Either way, it brings home the importance of connectedness with family and how love binds us together. It’s as if as a reminder we want to tattoo on our children’s hearts:
As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love. John 15:9
While it’s painful when a child no longer needs you, a teenager thinks you have no understanding of the world, your young adult has found new “gods”, or your children marry and move away, your parental love still remains.
This greatly mirrors our relationship with God. He forms us, then molds, guides, and blesses us, yet we as well often let go of His guiding hand, think he doesn’t understand how the times have changed, and assume He will understand when He no longer is our Number One.
Unshaken, His love for us remains.
Lord, as the connectedness of our family ebbs and flows over time,may we graft more completely on to you and hear your words to us:
Remain in me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. John 15:4
Lord, when our children of all ages need and desire us less, help us to embody your enduring, unwavering love. May our hearts bear the fruits of mercy, compassion, and hope. When those we love seem to drift further away, may we draw even closer to you, in an act of reparation for all the times we knowingly or unknowingly distanced or cut ourselves off from You. Have mercy on us.
Thank you Lord for the blessing of a family, both the earthly and heavenly kind! Hear our prayers!
Peace, Joy, and Love,
Janet
Prayer is the great connector. Pass it on!
