Sunday, January 17, 2010

Confession

I began a new "life" this past week! I started back to college. Such a hard thing to believe but I did! I cannot believe it but I did. I am taking a Math class for what I call "dummy adults" two online classes.
So - my life is in desperate need of some restructuring. One of the things that will probably take a backseat will be this blog. I kinda hate it actually. I really enjoy my blog and I enjoy writing here but I am not sure how often I will be able to do this! One of the classes I am taking is an English class where I will be doing some writing and maybe it will happen here some but for now, I am not sure I will be updating my blog very often.
The family is all doing well and they are being so wonderfully supportive of me while I go through this new phase of my life. Probably the next time you hear from me will be when I get to tell you my first granddaughter has arrived!!!
Cheerio all!

Saturday, January 9, 2010

Praying with Vision

I started a blog about Christmas complete with pictures and all but it just isn't "working" for me right now! So I am changing plans! And - since it is my blog, I can do that! :))

The other day I was listening to Moody radio and Dennis and Barbara Rainey were talking about praying for our children. I really enjoyed the program but one thing really spoke to me and that was one of their guests saying that when they prayed for their children, they prayed with vision. I have been thinking about this all week. Here is what I think about that - when I think about praying for my kids with vision, the danger is I feel like I am praying for them to "turn out" the way I want them to. Does that make sense? We are all normal when we have ideas as to how we think our kids should live their lives. But I am of the opinion that this needs to go MUCH deeper than that! Its easy for us to say that we want our kids to be "all they can be for God" but is that just an easy way to pray? Maybe I am just making things more difficult than what they really are but I have definitely made some changes in the way I pray for my kids. There are so many things out there that are vying for the attention of our young families. The devil would like nothing more than to have them get their eyes off of serving God completely and living true holy lives. But - is that my vision of a true holy life or is that God's version of a true holy life? Trust me, if I did not believe in the way I live my life, I wouldn't live it this way! What is the point of doing something if you don't believe it with your whole life?? And no, I don't think that my kids have to live just like me in order to be "right". When I take a good look at what is going on in the world around me, I know that the only tool I have is prayer and I had better be putting it to good use!

So - I have been trying to pray for my kids with vision but praying it in alignment with God's vision that I see in His Word! I don't think I can go wrong there! One thing along this line of thought that also really helps me is knowing that Jesus takes the stuttering and messed up prayers I try to pray for my kids and polishes them alllllll up and then tells my Heavenly Father what I really meant to say. That gives me all the hope in the world!

If you care to, tell me how you pray for your kids! And remember, while anyone can respond, I am at the stage in my life where I have two kids that are gone from home and the last one with one foot out the door! So, praying for wisdom in potty training is a little late for me!! :)) Seriously though, I am very interested in what you have to say so feel free to comment!