Prayers and Thoughts

for Reflection

Lenton Devotional

2008

February 24

The Christian home is the Master’s workshop where the processes of character molding are silently, lovingly, faithfully, and successfully carried on.

Lord Houghton

Children can have no better inheritance than believing parents.  Religion can become real in the midst of the family as in practically no other way.  Many of us have inherited great riches from our parents – the bank account of their personal faith and family prayers.

Nels F. S. Ferre

Anyone can build an altar; it requires a God to provide the flame.  Anybody can build a house; we need the Lord for the creation of a home.

John Henry Jowett

Those who trust in the Lord for help will find their strength renewed. They will rise on wings like eagles; they will run and not get weary; they will walk and not grow weak

Isaiah 40:31

Dear Lord, Thank you for the promise of Your word. Thank you for home – the home I was born into, the home you have given me now that I have grown. Help me to make it a good one. Enter my heart and lead me in the way of loving kindness today. Help me show tenderness and unfailing love to my family. Heal wounds when they need to be. Make me generous with words of encouragement. Help me nurture warmth and understanding. Help me always to reflect the love that Christ gave, so that through me, others might find him. Help me to love unconditionally. Amen.