Back to School

Happy Labor Day! I don't know what you're up to today but I'm working. So I guess it is truly labor day!
Anyway; my point is that this is the last hurrah, the final yahoo of summer and then the party's over. My kids are back to school. If you have them, I'm guessing yours are too.
It's a little melancholy for me this year. Jay is a college freshman with class starting Wednesday. Mac is a senior in high school.
But every year at this time since 1993 I've prayed the same prayer and it's always brought the grace and mercy into daboyz lives that I've believed for. So why change? It ain't broke, I ain't fixin' it.
For daboyz and dagirlz and all of the kids heading to school this year...

Dear Gracious Heavenly Father, Once again we send our children out into the world. We know it's a place that won't love them like we do and won't always encourage them to love you. But Lord, greater are you in them than what they will face in the world. We ask you to place a hedge around their physical bodies and give them safety and strength. Guard their hearts from doubt, fear and emotional attacks of the enemy. Give them wisdom and minds that always seek you in what they are being told and let them learn to compare the information they receive with your word. Give them victories that they can praise you for. Give them failures that will teach them to be humble but not break their spirits. Give them friends who love you that they can learn to serve you along side of. Give them teachers who follow you. Bless the buildings they will sit in and the people they will be with.
Father, if there is any person, adult or child, out there who might intend harm toward these precious kids; stop that plan now in the name of Jesus Christ. Put a barrier in front of that intent of destruction before it can materialize. Expose those individuals that they might be helped and saved from themselves.
Finally my Savior, I ask that you would lay a cloak of peace and joy around our children. And do a good work in us as parents that we might become worthy of this great gift you've placed in our hands.
Thank you God; for kindergartners and high schoolers and college students who will love you with their whole hearts and live lives to your glory.
In Jesus name.
Amen.

Psalm 25:21
May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in you.