Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Prayer Time Struggles
The description of my blog says "struggles and successes." Time to post a struggle.
I think prayer time is important for a family. My husband agrees. So we have implemented a family prayer time that is held fairly regularly - several times a week, anyway - since fall at least. That ought to be enough time for the kids to get used to it, right?
Prayer time starts with taking requests. My husband often does this but lately the kids have wanted a turn at writing them out. We keep them in a notebook. So there are spelling questions and suchlike. This part takes FAR too long, in my opinion.
Then we usually sit in a circle on the living room floor for the prayers. We sometimes hold hands, but that usually causes more troubles than it's worth. "I don't want to hold HIS hand," or kids scooting around the circle once they realize who they're sitting by to avoid hand holding.
One of the kids begins and prays and we pass the notebook around to help us to remember the requests. Bob always ends up, so that none of the requests are missed.
Sounds straightforward, right? Well, it's almost always a struggle. Bad attitudes, wiggly kids, opened eyes, distractions, etc. etc. etc.
Today I got so frustrated that I got up and left in the middle of it.
Yep, I thought I'd be honest and share our struggles. No preaching, please!
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Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - Untitled Comment
 Posted by 3rsandahug
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We have prayed with our children every night for as long as I can remember, and it's still a struggle at times. Just trying to get them to come up with one specific thing from the day to thank God for can be hard. "Ummm ... I don't remember." You don't remember anything you did today?
I'm trusting God to grab hold of their hearts and build a passion for Him - I sure can't do it myself!
Karen
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 - Praying
 Posted by Penny
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Lisa, I think it is wonderful that you are working on a prayer time with your family. Even in all the craziness of "But moooom, he is breathing my air!!", memories are being made, God is hearing every word you say and is smiling the whole time. Keep doing what you are doing lady!!
Get up, breath, shake it off, then go in for round 2! I'll be here with the Gatorade :)!
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 - Untitled Comment
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Did you see that comic in our Lies book? "That was Bible!" LOL. Its so true that we need to see each other's struggles. It sounds so nice to have a family prayer time, & it always sounds so peaceful coming from other people. But the truth is, I'm gritting my teeth thru it and wondering how God is seeing my heart at that particular moment! Of course, He is a loving God, so He is probably saying, "bless her heart for trying!" Or at least I hope so;)
See you Friday!
Sarah
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Monday, March 3, 2008 - Untitled Comment
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Well, I can say we would struggle with the same thing. We've just done with just one of us doing it with the kids and it's been pretty casual. We need to do a more formal time and I believe it's time since Troy's schedule is freeing up, but I AM dreading trying to get everyone seated...
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