I wanted to write my daughters a prayer. A prayer I pray on a daily basis since they were born, but it has been generic until about a year ago, then I began to intentionally pray for them because they are my world, and I want only the best for them. When I began my virtuous journey I struggled with how to pray for my children and my husband, I decided it was time to mix it up and truly pray for my girls, with my heart in it and my relationship with the Lord being stronger.
My Daughters: My prayer to my daughters is that they grow up to virtuous women. They are all their own people with their own individual personalities and I love them all so much. My girls are growing up in a house where prayer, reading the bible, and just having good morals is important. My girls are sheltered from a lot of things, yes this is true but it is the way my husband and I want to raise our girls. They are so full of Life and Amazing. Grace is 7, she is smart, funny, and energetic. Hartley is 3 and is my little mommy, and cares about everyone, she is a neat freak and everything has to be in its place and clean. Clara is just over a year and she is my goof ball. She likes to make you laugh and play games. I have been praying for each one of them everynight of their lives and before they were born. I have been praying for their salvation, their future spouse, and just for their life. One thing I NEVER thought I would never have to pray
Before they were born: Before they were born the prayers were generic. They were please keep this child safe, let them know they are loved more then anything, please save them. That was the prayer generic and well unintentional and with no real emotion. Occasionally I would pray for their future job and their future spouse, but it wasn't common.
Since my journey began: Since I began and continue on this virtuous journey of being a woman of God I want to tell you how I specifically pray for each child and why they mean the world to me.
Grace: For Grace I pray for her salvation, she told me she is saved but I continue to pray for her relationship with Christ that it will grow daily. That her hunger and desire to know more and more about God never ceases. I pray for friends at school and now in the future, she is a lot like me and will have a hard time with peers, and I pray she isn't like me in that she wants to please everyone and will give into temptation in her teen years because she thinks that will get her friendships. I pray for her future, and all the creative career ambitions she has such as being an astronaut and a teacher and a mommy and wife; those are some big shoes to fill. I pray her life is filled with glory and she sees love and joy in everything she does. I pray for her spouse that he will love the Lord and know the Lord like she does. I pray that she knows the Lord and understands the Lord needs to come first in her marriage.
Hartley and Clara: For Hartley and Clara I pray for their salvation, that I can express why it is important to have a relationship with the Lord and not just know about him. That busyness doesn't get into the way of us demonstrating to them about God, but that we show them daily. That they grow to know his love through us. I pray for both of them, there future whatever it may hold and that they fullfill the Lord's will in thier life. If they are to be missionaries, school teachers, doctors, lawyers, or pilots whatever they want to be that they will do it with a heart for the Lord and will have a heart of God. I pray for their future spouses that they are growing up to know the Lord and love the Lord as much as my girls do. I pray that their lives glorify him in everything they do.
I hope these things and pray these things for my girls. God knows the path he has for them, and I cannot ask him why if the path doesn't go the way I want but I know they are children of God and he will take care of them.
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