Your Monday Moment

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. A Prayer For When Your Teenager is Making Bad Choices   Father God,  This parenting teenagers thing  is weighing heavily on me today. My child, who looks less like a child every day, is acting in ways I can’t control and don’t agree with.  It is normal and hea...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. ------------------- A Prayer for 4 O’clock Fatigue  Steadfast God, This day has already exhausted me and there are still hours to go before bedtime.  What is it about the afternoon and evening lull that brings out the worst in all of us? My children are bicker...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. -------------- A Prayer for Children Playing Dress Up  Creator God, My living room is littered with tiaras and capes, dresses and a doctor’s coat,  with a stethoscope for a stuffed elephant  next to a cardboard box hospital.  My children dream of being heroes,...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. A Prayer for Being on the Losing Team Good Father, Thank you for the simple joy of watching our kids play games and sports— their growing bodies learning to sprint toward a goal, scuffle for a ball,  pass to a friend, and be a part of a team. Sports are often...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. A Prayer for My Child’s Friendships Good Father,  You see my child as she learns to navigate  the fragile ecosystem of friendship. You see the unseen pressures,  the confusion,  and the ache to fit in. You see the temptations— to mock what she actually loves,...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. A Prayer for Cultivating Adult Friendships  Father God, Raising children can be a lonely job, and I often find myself at the end of a long day wishing I had more friends to lean on. You created us to need each other, Lord, yet here in America, we have worshipe...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. A Prayer for Embodied Love in an Automated World  Father God, Our modern world can be overwhelming, and we come to you today in need of  your grounding presence.  Our children are growing up with  information overload, automated everything, artificial intellig...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. A Prayer for When Your Teenager Doesn’t Talk to You  Merciful God, You know the details of my teenager’s day.  You know who she ate lunch with and what jokes were told.  You know what classes are hard, and what teachers she likes and doesn’t like. You know “th...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. A Prayer for Parents of Strong-willed Kids Good Father,  You have created our kids to be uniquely themselves,  set them in this time and this place and in this family,  and entrusted us to be their parents.  Would you equip us with the patience,  self-control,...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. A prayer for children living with anxiety  Father God, You created this child I love so much, you knit them in the womb,  you know the hairs on their head, the dreams in their heart, and the fears and thoughts in their mind. Anxiety is a part of life, but my c...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. A prayer for not rushing through bedtime  Lord of true rest, Father of endless patience, Spirit of perfect peace, I ask for your strength to flow  through my fatigue. Here at the end of a long day, all I want to do is collapse on a couch  and have a minute to...

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YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. -------------- For Transition Weeks. Steadfast God, This week, as our family takes some time to  settle into a new seasonal rhythm   I open my hands and ask for your grace.  We need your grace to prevail  over stress and fatigue, over the  jolt of shifting fro...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. For When Your Vacation Was Not a Vacation Lord God, Thank you for the time away  from our usual lives to do  something different as a family.  There was laughter, there was joy, and many memories made.  Yet, for the adults involved, there was little to no rela...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. A Prayer for Teaching Them to Drive  When I was a new parent, the thought of my child behind the wheel  was an abstract idea— something I would deal with when the time came, when the years were more behind me  than ahead of me. It seemed so far away.  Now I am...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. P raying Through Sibling Conflict Without Taking Sides  Good Father,  Thank you for my children.  Thank you that they get to grow up together,  close in age, sharing the same story,  the same home, and the same family.  There is so much potential here for frie...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. A Mid-Summer Prayer for Tired Parents  Heavenly Father, At this point in the summer, I admit, Lord, my patience is thin.  I want to enjoy these routine-free days,  but I often come to resent them.  There are more dishes in the sink  than I have podcasts to lis...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. --------- A Prayer For A Family Road Trip  Lord of every language and landscape, pilot of this vast and wonderful planet, be our provision today as we set off on an adventure. Leaving home for any length of time  is an opportunity to shake up our routines  and...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. --------------------------------- A Prayer For A Lemonade Stand  Lord God, Thank you for the way your abundance reveals itself every summer. Fruit ripens, flowers bloom, and children run barefoot  down sidewalks and through fields, dreaming and scheming and  p...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. ------------------------ A Prayer For Your Child's First Overnight Camp    Father God, You give us so much freedom  to explore your created earth, and who you have made each of us to be within it.  I pray that this week feels like that for my child.  Though th...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. ---------------- A Prayer For Flying With Littles Father God,  Parenting small children comes with  its share of absurdities, and airplane travel with littles is  certainly a recipe for chaos! Lord, I am going to need your help  to keep from losing my cool som...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. ----------- A Prayer For When Their Faith Looks Different Than Expected Lord, I remember when my son prayed to you.  He closed his eyes, lifted his face,  and spoke with his whole heart.  Now I see him distracted, restless,  reaching for anything that keeps hi...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. --------------------- A Prayer For a New Puppy Father God, You have given us a world with countless creatures. What a joy (and what a mess!)  to care for some of them in our homes.  Thank you, Father, for allowing our family  the resources to take on a new pup...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. -------------------------- For Working Moms Heading Into Summer  Lord God,  Being a working mother is uniquely complicated, and summertime often brings  some internal struggles freshly to the surface. There are pressures and expectations  coming from every dir...

YMM is a weekly prayer series for parents who need a moment. Sign up at gracebased.com/ymm to get these prayers in your inbox every Monday. ----------------------- A Prayer for Healthy Self Care  Father God, Being an attentive parent requires a level of selflessness that does not come naturally. This can be beautifully refining, molding us in humility, and bringing us closer  to your heart.  But s...