Prayer for my Children

God Alone is Enough

How can I pray for you?

Please let me know how I can pray for you this week. 

Also, I started a new Facebook Accountability Group, which is where we can post writing goals and cheer each other on. If you're interested in joining us, let me know, and I'll add you to the group.

How can I pray for you?

I've been busy editing my current work-in-progress and plotting a new story idea, but I love praying for you guys. So let me know what's going on in your life (writing, health, family, anything) that needs prayer.

How Can I Pray for You?

Hello friends. Please let me know how I can pray for you this week.

Things I want my son to know about faith

* God loves you.

* No. I mean, He really, really, really loves you.

* Don't be afraid if someday you have questions or even doubts about Him.

* But whatever you do, keep seeking Him.

* I don't have all the answers. Neither does your dad or your pastor. We can give you guidance, but God always gets the last say on things.

* God will use your specific gifts and talents.

* If He asks you to do something that you don't think you have the right gifts or talents for, do it anyway.

* Read the Bible - even the hard, scary parts.

* Don't pretend you understand it all.

* If you don't know the answer to something, ask God.

* And learn to be okay with the fact that He may not explain it to you right away.

* But don't forget, keep seeking Him.

* Learn how to pray.

* Learn to be silent. Learn to pray using scriptures. Write down your prayers. Pray simple prayers like, "Help," "Thank you," and "I'm sorry."

* Don't compare your relationship with Jesus to another person's relationship with Him.

* Don't try to impress anyone with your relationship with God.

* Love Him with a humble heart.

* Keep seeking Him.

* God really, really, really loves you.

What do you want your children to know about faith?

How can I pray for your writing?

On Thursday a group of women at my church agreed to pray for my writing. It gives me such confidence knowing they're lifting me up in prayer.

Throughout the next week, I want to pray for you.

So tell me, how can I pray for your writing or your work this week?

This Little Light of Mine

...Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God. Exodus 34:29

I read this last night, and it made me teary-eyed. Isn't this what we all want? To spend time with God and for even a tiny bit of His radiance to reflect off of us into the world. Moses had jut spent forty days and forty nights on Mount Sinai with the Lord before he came down with his face shining so bright he had to wear a veil to cover it.

It's a huge reminder for how important time with God is. After Jesus came, died and rose again, time with the Lord isn't limited to Moses on Mount Sinai. Jesus gave us the freedom to spend time with Him. What an amazing gift!

Are we receiving that gift or are we turning away from it? Have you ever known anyone whose light reflected their relationship with God?

Room to Move

Imagine your ideal life. The one you've longed for. The one that fills your dreams.

God's will for your life is better.

By the world's standards it may not look better. It may not involve money, fame, or security, but it does guarantee a life filled with God's blessings, and that's something beyond our wildest dreams.

Are we so wrapped up in our own goals and visions for our lives that we're not giving God room to move us toward His perfect plan?

I will praise Him

I spent the evening hiding in a closet under two mattresses with my two-year-old son in my lap. I've lived in Oklahoma my entire life, but this was the scariest storm I've been through. The combination of having a toddler, hearing the tornado sirens blaring, and seeing the red line of the predicted storm path pointing at us, sent me reeling. I prayed a lot, and the Casting Crowns song "Praise You in This Storm" played over and over in my mind.

I'm beyond grateful that the tornadoes didn't rip through our neighborhood. I'm praying for all those in my city, state, and nation who are still in the midst of cleaning up from the fallout of the deadly storms. I also pray that whatever happens, we'll all have the strength to continue praising Him through the storms.

Now I See

Last week, I had Lasik surgery. It's pretty amazing that in ten minutes a surgeon can use lasers to correct vision that has been poor for most of my thirty years.

My eyes haven't completely adjusted to their new lives without contacts or glasses, and they get tired after staring at the computer screen for too long. Hopefully, I will be able to get over that quickly and get back to writing.

I loved reading your comments on my previous post. Everyone had some great things to say about why we write.

From the beginning, I've questioned why I have this desire to write, and I learn more and see it differently with every step I take. I often think about a scene from Hinds Feet in High Places by Hannah Hurnard. I was going to try to describe it, but I couldn't do it justice. Here's an excerpt:

Still there was silence, a silence as of the grave, for indeed she was in the grave of her own hopes and still without the promised hinds' feet, still outside the High Places with even the promise to be laid down on the alter, Much-Afraid repeated the glorious promise which had been the cause of her starting for the High Places. "The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds' feet and he will make me to walk upon mine High Places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments" (Hab. 3:19)
The priest put forth a hand of steel, right into her heart. There was a sound of rending and tearing, and the human love, with all its myriad rootlets and fibers, came forth.

That's my prayer. That God will rip out all of my hopes and dreams and make space for His love and His dreams for my future.

Praying for Annabelle

I'm reposting this from Jamie's Blog:

So I was up half the night prayer for a dear fellow blogger Krista Phillips and her new baby girl Annabelle who is struggling with recovering from heart surgery in these first few weeks of life. The recovery is physical ups and downs and emotional ups and downs. Having my child in the NICU the first week of her life was hard enough, but Krista's little sweetheart is in need of even more prayer and her mommy and daddy in need of support and encouragement.

IT'S MY MISSION TODAY - to get as many of you praying and reposting the request on your blogs! Let's place this precious little baby girl before the feet of the GOD who parted the Red Sea!

Here's what you do

1. Check out Krista's blog and familiarize yourself with her dear little Annabelle
2. Cut and paste this entire blog entry and post on YOUR blog
3. Post a comment on my blog with YOUR blog address and where you're blogging the prayer request and I'll be sure to pass it on to Krista
4. Post on Krista's blog a prayer (keep it relatively short) that she read ACTUAL words of prayer being lifted for Annabelle
5. Continue to pray ... indefinitely :)

Are you with me??