Mother's Day Prayers From Shaunti's kids
Shaunti is sharing part of her special, private family life with you, her readers, today. These are the prayers her kids wrote and gave her on Mother’s Day.
From Shaunti’s 15-year-old daughter:
Thank you so much for loving me and caring for me. Thank you for praying for me every night before I go to bed, so here’s my prayer for you:
I pray that you know how much I love you and want you to be happy. I pray that your eye heals permanently without any other complications. I pray that you know how much I miss you when you are gone, but also how much I appreciate it. I know that you have to go sometimes and the only way you can is because you love us so much. Thank you so much, and I pray that you know that.
From Shaunti’s 12-year-old son:
I pray that you know how much I appreciate all that you do for me, like praying for me when I’m sick, making me dinner, washing my clothes, watching movies with me, talking dad into getting the cats. I pray that you will always be safe when you travel. I pray that your eye heals really quick. I pray that your daddy will be safe, fully healed and that he’ll have feeling in his left hand. I pray that I will always make you happy and laugh.
Those are beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
I finally realized, possibly one reason, why we (American’s?) have for so many generations quoted “Sweet 16” for those turning the age of 16. I have 3 girls, now ages 20, 16, and 13. When both of my older girls turned 16 they shed this skin like a Chameleon, changing personality that came out of no-where. Not that they were’t already God fearing girls and well-mannered, but that they saw the end of the rainbow and was willing to express it in a “Sweet 16” only kind-of-way that I have never heard before. All of the teaching, training and prayers spent the past 16 years seemed to have emerged. And, of which, I was truly grateful to God and my girls.
Now, that I read the prayers from your children, a true blessing…I too, hope you experience the same as I have at age 16! Because I also believe that it is what we take time to listen to and a willingness to hear what our childrens’ hearts want to speak to us.
Thank you for being a voice of hope to many!