Michele H.

I'm not even sure how to run my own life, let alone give the direction and input into my children's. Show me, Lord, your way, your paths. Give me the insight I require to be everything my family needs me to be.

Father, will you meet me at my need right now? Envelop me in your constancy and care. Please reach out to me in my deepest pain, and be my reservoir of strength that's deeper still.

Please, Father, flood me with your grace and power to forgive. Transform me from the inside out. I cannot face another day with the burden of hate I'm carrying.

I don't know if I can do this, she thought. Doubts, insecurities and plain old fear reared up in her mind. This should be a good thing, so why isn't it?

Lord, why am I continually turning everywhere for a quick fix to help ease my pain but to you? I've been using your blessings and turning them into curses. What have I been thinking?