Parents Prayers

Prayers of My Parents Written on Index Cards

recipe box prayers

Your Grace is Forever

2/1/05 Our Father, we pray again for your blessing on this gathering. We thank you for prayers answered – for family and friends – for Amila’s return – for blessings we often take for granted. Encourage us to look beyond ourselves – to accept the shortcomings of others and to know your Grace is forever.

Moving this recipe box from my line of sight has triggered a few missed opportunities. I can’t post what Dad or Mom has written if I don’t see it. I can’t see what is out of my range of view. If it results in staying out of my mind and off my radar, for a good end…how much better for a selfish one.

Looking beyond ourselves could work the same, I reckon. “Out of sight, out of mind.”

Put no evil before my eyes, that I sin not against you.

If I am constantly looking at something it is in sharp focus, sometimes even macro focus. Too much information indeed.

But Our heavenly Father’s Grace is forever.

I love that Dad almost always capitalized Grace, it is a proper name.

It is proper.

Entrusting those matters that (we) cannot solve

8/13 Our Father,  we pause again to include You and to ask for your blessing on our fellowship. We are grateful for this day and the opportunities life gives each of us. Sustain us in these days in which we find so much to worry about – remind us of the positives and to entrust to you those matters that cannot solve without your help.  Amen 

Two things, ok, maybe 3.

  1. We won’t “find” things to worry about if we aren’t looking.
  2. These “matters” we worry about are not alive, notice my dad didn’t write, “solve themselves“
  3. Maybe I shouldn’t have assumed it was a typo and added the parenthetical “we”.

Entrusting means believing that the matters, animate and inanimate, that I leave in God’s hands are safe. They will be watched over and monitored. They will be kept out of harm’s way. If I don’t entrust someone, I don’t leave anything of value with them. Are there degrees of trust? I will trust you with a $20 dollar bill, but not a $50? I will trust you watching my house but not my car? I will trust you babysitting my house and kids, but you can’t use my smartphone?

Do I put conditions on the matters I entrust to God, also? Probably. Kind of stupid, huh?

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