November 23, 2003
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At the Center of God’s Will. I know I am there. I know I am pursuing what is on God’s heart – because there’s a desperation of dependence on Him and an excitement. This weekend has confirmed for me God’s desire to bring the Light of His Son Jesus to my relatives.
Lord, I pray that you would help me be a good daughter. (How do I help my parents discover the reality of your love and abide, in real and actual experience, the wonders of your peace?)
I really need your help so that I could be a good granddaughter. (Help me with my Vietnamese so I can communicate with them! How do I respect my aged grandparents and explain to them your love?)
Lord, could you help me be a good neice? (Help me be grown up in their eyes. Put flesh to the gospel of Truth that I believe in. Solidify what it means for me to follow a God of Love. Give me leverage to explain your message.)
Please help me be a good cousin. (Jesus, how do I relate to my cousins who have been swayed by the world, trapped by its lies? And how do I relate to my dozens of other little cousins who are just discovering life?)
Lord, help me be a good sister. (Please keep showing me how to extend grace to my sister and my brother-in-law. Help me love them with your Love, that when they walk away from me, they would recognize that you were there breathing life within our midst.)
And lastly, please help me be a good aunt. (Teach me how to pray for and love and teach this new little one that is to come into the world.)
Lord Jesus, you didn’t go through all that trouble to cross Heaven to Earth and back again just for me. You did it for them too. How I long that one day, all my aunts and uncles, grandparents, cousins, parents would be surrounding your throne in worship!
