with Nancy Leigh DeMoss – if you’ve read Our Narrow Way for any length of time you will know that I love the ministry of Revive Our Hearts and it’s host Nancy Leigh DeMoss. (So much so that people get tired of hearing me talk about it.) Here is a link to an interview with Nancy done on girl talk – check it out. I thought Day One was really neat because during that interview Nancy shares about her growing up years which are so interesting and inspiring. There is so much we can take away and learn from…I love the picture she paints of her father.

So, in honor of Father’s Day I thought I’d share a memory similar to the one Nancy shares of her Father – this is being shared in honor of Mark’s Father and it is Mark’s memory.

Mark has told me that one of the neatest and most precious memories that he has of his father is of his father on his knees each night next to his bed praying. He says that his father did this every single night without fail. When Mark was young he didn’t pay much attention to this humble act, but today as he thinks back tears come to his eyes…for the fruit of those prayers can be seen in him - Mark.

Today his father sits and stares, quietly watching TV, barely moving from his spot on the couch, in September he turns 90. He is ill and it is very likely that this will be his last Father’s Day.  Mark says that when he was a boy his dad was a vibrant man, full of life and humor, always ready to help out and lend a hand. The “life of the party”. Yet, it is the memory of his father in prayer that impacts Mark the most – and probably it was those prayers that impacted Mark the most because today Mark is a godly man. One you would call in time of need. One who will stop and pray with you on the spot. One who proclaims God’s truth before other’s every Sunday. One who doesn’t back down on his convictions and one who has led many men to the Lord.

Soon we will be going on vacation and before we leave Mark will gather us together or we will bow our heads together in the car and he will lead us in prayer for a safe journey and travelling mercies. Before we leave from our destination he will gather us together again and we will pause to pray for our return trip…and while we are gone there will be prayers not seen or heard but given up…for the family and for others…

I wonder...what will our children remember?

blessings,

dani

“Be very careful to keep the commandment and the law…to love the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways, to obey His commands, to hold fast to Him and to serve Him with all your heart and all your soul.” (Joshua 22:5)