Prayers

Scriptures tell us how Mary pondered the things she saw God doing in the life of her son and how Job interceded for his children.

A mom I once knew with a two year old, and pregnant with her second child, once shared that she was praying Psalm 139 for her daughter - a special prayer for your own children or the children you work with, whether you love them, whether they frustrate you, or both. Substitute the person on your heart for the "I". Maybe prayers like that open our hearts alittle to see someone alittle more the way God sees them.

There are a lot of places in scripture we can bring back to the Lord as prayers - among them Jesus' prayers and the prayers at the end of the Epistles. The hard part is to keep watching to see how God responds.