A Mother's tears, a Mother's Prayer

You can't be a mother and not shed tears.  You can't be a mother and not pray.  The two go hand and hand.

the tears of labor pains -- the prayer - please God let this end soon, please let my child be healthy.

the tears on the First day of School  -- the prayer - dear Lord please be with them today.

the tears as they get their licence and head up the road the first time without you -- the prayer -  Please God let them be safe from their own stupidity and that of others!

the tears when they come home from school and have had a bad day -- the prayer -- Lord help my child learn to forgive and to treat others as they wish to be treated.

the tears when a sports injury occurs -- the prayer - Please God don't let it be serious, please ease the pain, please Lord let them get up off the field.

A mother teaches her child right from wrong and when the child chooses to do wrong instead of right, a mothers heart breaks a bit and she prays -- Lord help my child remember the lessons, help them do good, help them to do right.

The tears when you get that late night phone call from the Dean of Students – the prayer -- Lord be with my child since I can’t be there in person, in their stupidness and moments of weakness and poor judgment  Lord, please don’t desert them.

The tears on the night the cops bring your son home – the prayer -- Lord take the anger, take the brokenness and bring about good from this Lord.

Speeding tickets, bad grades, sullen defiant moods, slamming doors, uncontrolled anger, lying, shouting, running away, the silent treatment  – the prayer -- Lord help us all get through this to better days, help me be understanding Lord, help me to help them, Help us all Lord.

Tears in times of sickness and sleepless nights -- Lord please heal my child. Please restore them to the fullness of health.

Tears fall late at night as a mother lays awake with troubled thoughts – the prayer -- please Lord let this be a lesson learned, give me strength Lord, give me wisdom, give me patience, give me a forgiving love like Yours. Help me to help them Lord. Forsake us not, Lord

As things escalate and get worse, the only saving thought – it could always be worse –the prayer -- Please Lord let this be our worse.

A Mother prays without ceasing for her child/ren , before they are even born, from the first moment she knows God has entrusted a precious soul into her care, she prays.  In good times and bad, she prays.  In their triumphs and their sorrows, she cries and she prays.  In the darkest moments when things are blackest, a mothers clings to hope and her faithful prayers.  As tears fall, she holds fast to the promise “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6) -- The prayer – Let it be as You have promised Lord, please let it be.