Thought I'd create an official place for us to leave our personal prayer requests again. I really don't want us to allow ourselves to get sidetracked completely by our own thoughts and reflections--as inspiring and entertaining as they can be--and forget to make room for praying for each other! I know that no advice I personally can give you will do you as much good as if I spend a few minutes each day praying for you! I think maybe we should go back to saving the last 10 minutes of our group time to share our requests. Anyway...
Let's all leave our requests in the comments so they're in one neat and tidy spot when we want to look for them later, okay?
(Rochelle, I know you included yours in your post, so maybe you can just cut and paste it into a comment?)
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I ask that you continue to pray for my parenting. As the number of days before school starts draws shorter, it seems our family's patience and kindness does as well!! Please pray specfically for the courage to discipline when needed and the wisdom to discipline in a way that encourages growth and responsibility rather than stirring up resentment and shame. I think you can just make this a recurring request for me!
That the Holy Spirit will help me fill my mind with Him, with His truth, His love, His glory. That I will be aware of it. That I will grant myself grace as God does, and won't get wrapped up in doing it the right way, but that I would just try. And be happy with and encouraged by those baby steps, as Beth said.
I'm feeling overwhelmed with the amount of things I have to do (work, home, class reunion coming up, etc.). Pray that I will be diligent without worrying. I long for large blocks of time, which are no longer ever a reality for me, which makes me feel frustrated and a bit desperate at times. On top of that, you can pray for childcare options for me for the fall. Brent's mom has been coming once a week this summer, but this week was her last time as she is a teacher and has to be back at school next week. I truly have no clue how I will get enough work hours in without her. (For those who don't know, I work for Third 10-15 hours a week from home.) I'm believing that God has some other options in mind for us, but don't know what they are yet...and hopefully they'll cost the same as Grandma's daycare! :)
By the way, I also agree with Tiff that we need to take time to do prayer requests when we are together. I think it's an important way to connect in community, and I've missed it the last couple weeks.
Originially when I read this I was like, yeah I need prayer but not sure how to even put it into words. Then I looked at my friend Flip on the desk...and I thought there you go in a nut shell!
As competent as we may become in our own strength, we are never as fully competent by ourselves as we can be if we will allow the Holy Spirit to work in us...Our competency may be great, but it is never complete until we allow the Holy Spirit to...bless our efforts.
My prayer request is just this...that I lay down my ability and thoughts that I have to do it and let the Holy Spirit fix it...so basically Move over Bri, Here comes Holy Spirit and He's got it won...so Bri, put down your little tricks they won't complete the job.
Nice to write, terrible to put into practice...need prayer.
Thanks.
So I'd like to just plagiarize Tiff's. Add that on for me please.
And second, I'm embarrassed to even put this in writing but came home after school registration today too choked up to tell Jayson about the teacher for one of our kiddos. (being vague on purpose there). I've been stewing about this for months and tried so hard to put it in God's hands (versus talk to the school ahead of time) and I obviously failed. I think my tears were more related to me being upset at my reaction to the news than they were to the news itself (follow that?). I just need peace that God knows who and what is best for our kids...much better than I do.
It just seems like that should be so easy.
Enjoying your posts, and still loving our time together. I even have two days of study done thanks to Jay taking the kids to the fair today :-)
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