Prayers for Prodigals

On third reading of Prayers For Prodigals by James Banks. Always have a new note to write on the pages of the book. It's almost full. I may take the author's suggestion and write to him about how this book is teaching ME. Today I envisioned my family being together in joy and peace knowing that we are all children of God, not just family in life. Our prayers are before Him. They do not dissipate even after we are called to be with Him.

busy + God's Tweets

Been studying kings of Israel and Judah and am now studying the prophets in chronological order in conjunction with the kings and nations to which their message was directed. Doing it this way makes SOOOOO much more sense.

Also going through "Prayers for Prodigals" for the second time and when yesterday's prayer subject was a Proverb, I realized the Proverbs are God's Tweets! LOL 

Have a blessed day! 

Mrs Pyfer passed on

My mother's best friend joined her in heaven last month. She was a prolific supporter of Christian ministries and had a great library. I found one book called "Prayers for Prodigals" by James Banks and have been going through the daily messages during my devotional time. It takes 3 weeks to start a habit so it will be very good for my family.

The book is teaching me how to pray for my son and even more importantly, how to pray for myself! My most often prayer is "LORD, get me out of here!" and ironically, it's always out of the same place. LOL Am I Jonahette? I really hate this place. suburbia.

anyway, get the book. It's the most useful daily devotional I've ever had.

http://www.jamesbanks.org/books/

love radar...what's up with infrared?

DRAMA

Must be the wind

radar this morning 8am.

so much destruction

fires and floods. Why? I believe God is warning us. Fellow believers are being murdered all over the world and does our nation repent?

When I was a child

When I was a child I drew horses. When I became older I continued. I got better as I got older.

I still have all my son's schoolwork. He, too, is an artist. Today he makes wonderful rustic furniture for his home (and rebuilds cars and trucks). I've recently moved and a quite a few of the boxes are his kid stuff. Not toys but things he created. I really do have to part with some of it.

Today I was thinking about how proud I was of his work at the age of his creativity and if thinking about how he has grown in his ability, as I did, I may be able to let go of it. I'm out in the country and we have a burn pit for paper.

God looks at us the same way. Our mistakes are lousy pieces of garbage that will end up in the burn pit. He sees us at our greatest point and all those good pieces (there are quite a few) will also be glorifying because we are to have the faith of a child and the pure love of a child (resulting in the joy and peace of a child). The surviving pieces, all the good in us, is all He sees.