TGIF! I'm excited to be here with you again on a Friday; writing the Five Minute Friday Challenge by Lisa Jo Baker.
This week the prompt is 'crowd.'
To my Emma: my one prayer is that you be strong enough to stand up to the crowd. That you are able to pave your own way and know in your core what's right and wrong. I just read this morning of a 16 year old that ended up so close to death because she decided to raid her father's liquor cabinet with her cousin. She had 2 beers and 6 shots...her blood alcohol level was high enough to kill a grown man. I pray you will know and understand that at 16, you have no business messing around with things which can impair you in this manner. She followed the crowd.
I also read of a young girl who decided she didn't want to follow the crowd. She had taken her younger sister bra shopping and was so disgusted at the 'options' available to her sister, that she decided to create her own bra for the preteen and teenage girls who aren't looking to have their cup sizes 'enlarged'...there's enough time for that...trust me. She didn't follow the crowd.
To my Elijah: my one prayer is that you have a voice that others will follow. That others will be drawn to you and you will lead them on the path of righteousness. That you will not succumb to the society's objectification of women; that you would see we are all beautiful in our own right. That you will be a Godly man in this God-less world and you will stand up for the 'weaker' sex.
I pray that you will understand what it really means to be a superhero. That it's not about the glory received, but rather the glory given to our Creator that really matters.
My overwhelming desire in life is that I show you both what it means to stand out from the crowd. To go after what you desire, but all the while, showing kindness and compassion to those around you. To fight for your beliefs and never. give. up. while being a voice of encouragement. The world needs more of that.
My prayer is, in its basest form, that you will recognize the crowd for what it is and remember that God made you to be unique. We aren't all meant to be alike and following along the same path.
I'll love you forever. I'll like you for always. As long as I'm living, my babies you'll be...
Love,
Your Momma
So glad you were my God given neighbor on Lisa Jo's FMF link up! I have been to your blog before, and I love it! I really liked this post because I too pray for our children in this modern world of "crowd followers" we are chosen to follow Him. Isaiah 53:3 He was despised and rejected by mankind,
ReplyDeletea man of suffering, and familiar with pain.
Like one from whom people hide their faces
he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.
Christ wasn't a crowd follower...he was a Father follower. Praying for all the children of the world to know Christ and love Him...and for my own hear too.
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Jenn
*heart (not hear in that last part)...whoops! It's early here in Florida! Sun isn't up but the kids and I are!
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