WHEN YOUR CHILD WALKS AWAY
APPENDIX A
A Parent’s Prayer Guide Use this guide as a weekly rhythm. Pray one section each day. On the seventh day, rest — and trust. Day 1 — Adoration Father, you neither slumber nor sleep. You are not anxious about my child. You see them when I cannot. You knew them in the womb and you know them now. You are patient, and you are kind, and you are holy. I praise you before I ask you for anything. Day 2 — Confession Lord, I confess the weight I have carried that is not mine to carry. I confess the weight I have refused to carry that is. I confess the places I parented in fear rather than in faith, and the places I parented in pride rather than in love. Forgive me. Wash me. Free me. Day 3 — Their Heart God, you see the emotions, mind, and will of my child. Where their emotions drive them, gentle them. Where their thinking is darkened, give light. Where their will is set against you, break it in mercy. Change the lordship. Do not just change the behavior. Day 4 — Their Desire Lord, whatever desire is running hardest and heaviest in their heart, expose its emptiness. Let every well they drink from leave them thirstier. Let every pleasure they chase leave them hungrier. And when they come to themselves, let your goodness be waiting for them. Day 5 — Me as Their Parent Father, make me present without compromise. Make me truthful without cruelty. Keep my end of the bridge from burning. Give me better questions than I have ever asked. Keep the gospel central in my own heart so it has a chance of being central in theirs. And keep my good desire for their return from becoming the idol I worship.
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