{"id":6755,"date":"2025-05-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=6755"},"modified":"2025-04-26T15:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T20:07:08","slug":"mothers-always-pray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbdahlgren.com\/?p=6755","title":{"rendered":"Mothers Always Pray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Short and sweet thought for the week\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Motherhood is a lifelong connection to a little baby who filled the place in your heart you didn\u2019t know was empty. Cute cuddly bundles of joy are easy to love, but as they grow, it becomes more challenging. It\u2019s hard to know when to hold onto their bikes or let them ride off into the sunset. Yet, we always stay connected by sharing their sorrows and joys.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mothers are always mothers, but eventually, they segue into becoming trusted non-judgmental confidants as they watch their children learn and grow traveling the road of life. Always loving! Always encouraging! Always praying! Yes, always praying and never giving up on them!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prayer is profound! Abraham Lincoln once said, \u201cI remember my mother\u2019s prayers, and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we don\u2019t pray for our children, who will?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We pray for God\u2019s blessings, favor, protection, and guidance. We pray for God to infuse them with His wisdom, discernment, clarity, peace, and calm. We pray for God to reveal Himself to them as the loving, caring, and compassionate God we know Him to be.  We pray that we do not hinder what God is doing in their lives. If we watch them stumble or stray from God, we remind ourselves of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32). We pray, pray, pray and do not give up (Luke 18:1)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through prayer, we let go of our control and lift our children up into God\u2019s loving hands. We trust God because, although it\u2019s hard to imagine, He loves them even more than we do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c\u2026always pray and do not give up!\u201d ~Luke 18:1 (NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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