Recently I had the wonderful opportunity to mentor my oldest daughter in a difficult peer situation. There is a boy in her room who has had a hard family life. He has suffered tragedy at the hands of his mother, been placed in foster care, lost a young sibling to death and shifted finally back around to his father. Another mutual friend of his and my daughter’s, out of obedience to his parents demands, ended his friendship with this young man. Apparently the child’s parents felt like this boy was “undesirable” due to his unfortunate family circumstances to be a friend of their son. The young man mistakenly thought that my daughter was the cause of the ended friendship. He began lashing out at her verbally because of his deep hurt. Their homeroom teacher put a stop to some of the behavior, but he was still hurting and placing the blame on my child. Continue reading →

This afternoon and evening Meghan has been heavy on my heart and I have been asking the Lord to reveal to me new ways I could pray for her.  I then remembered a document I had bookmarked a while ago on the subject of praying for leadership and began to use it as an outline while I prayed. Continue reading →