My Parent Prayer
Dear Lord, please give me parenting skills that will help me in guiding
my children to become knowledgeable, socially adept, positive, kind,
compassionate, patient, thoughtful, respectful, gracious, responsible, successful,
and independent. Plus, grant my wish that they will present me with
grandchildren and then support these incredible little people and teach them
all of the things I taught to them.
Thank you, Lord, for answering my prayer, but this means my children now know more
than I know, have new social circles that include work and neighborhood
friends, reach out in kindness and compassion to the new world around them, accept responsibility for the life they have created, and make good decisions
without my input.
So, Lord, this means that I no longer have
that job. So I guess I may have to get another one – job, that is, not child!
Not this. . .
but maybe this.
Wendy's surely has a huge pool from which to choose, but you are not a part of it. Good luck with the other thing, though.
ReplyDeleteVanilla, I hope I don't make the short list for a job needing losers. That would be a self-esteem crusher.
DeleteI was just telling someone, the other day, how you went back to school and earned 3 degrees after you had 4 children. How did you do that, superwoman?
ReplyDeleteIlene, you are very kind, but Superwoman I'm not - not even close.
DeleteAnd you worked much of that time too! I'd be frazzled.
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