Thank you for my children’s struggles

Dear Father,

Thank you for my children.
Thank you for their imperfections and their struggles.
Thank you for walking through life with them,
speaking into their lives,
using every hardship and every conflict to re-orient them to you.
And you don’t hurry or panic when they don’t learn the lesson
the first or second or hundredth time.

You keep loving and showing yourself to them
by bringing influencers across their paths,
by painting nature all around them,
by making your Word alive and powerful in their hearts and minds.

Thank you for being their God,
as much as you are my God.
You have a future and a hope for them,
a destiny of your design.
You will use all their mistakes,
all their experiences,
all my failings and my influence
to mold them into the people you want them to be.

I am in awe of your goodness and your sovereignty.
Why do I worry?
My children were your children first,
your perfect, unique creations,
an expression of yourself,
with a little bit of us parents mixed in.

Your work is remarkable!
Thank you for letting me experience them
as their parent.

Amen.