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 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...

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 child closing out a milestone school year Good Father, A day I once saw as far off is here— another chapter’s end, another milestone reached.  I adore this child you’ve entrusted to me, and I stand here today in awe of the  bright young...

A prayer for when your child is pulling away from you Lord, I remember holding them in my arms,  nurturing them, feeding them, caring for their every need.  We were so close, our lives woven together,  constant and uninterrupted. As they grew, our attachment changed.  They became their own person,  and we learned new ways of relating.  It felt good at first… But now I feel the distance,  and I do...

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 parental regret  Merciful God, Certain phases of parenting have come and gone, and though I know regret is a waste of time, there are things I wish I’d done differently. Words I should or shouldn’t have said, choices I’d like to...

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 parents who could use some “thank yous”  Dear Parent,  Raising children is truly Kingdom work, and it is far from easy. So today we send some “ thank yous” your way in an effort to remind you of the God who sees you, knows you, and loves y...

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 Friends Don't Understand. Loving Father,  My child is going through something  none of their friends understand, and they are feeling alone.  I know this kind of loneliness  is part of being human.  Sometimes it’s for simple re...

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. ------------ In Praise of Mud and the Freedom of Childhood: Father God, Spring is a season of color,  new life, and mud. Lots of mud.  There's a reason many family homes  include a room named after this fact! I am not a farmer or homesteader,  yet you wouldn’t...

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 Nurturing Our Kids Uniqueness. Creator God, Each child is born with such a unique fingerprint. From the time they first hold up their heads to the day they choose senior-year classes, we notice their specific  strengths, weaknesses, and d...

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 Times of Doubt. Faithful God, Doubt is a healthy part of  every faith journey,  I know that. And whether it is a  “dark night of the soul”, as many faithful Christians have experienced, or a temporary cloudiness  characterized by...

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 Waking in the Night. Gentle Father, I have prayed to you between so  many midnights and mornings, reaching for your company, asking for your help. I have awoken to  crying babies, sick children, nightmares, accidents, and monsters under...

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 Parents Are Not on the Same Page. God of Peace, Raising children together  is a partnership filled with immense joy and complicated struggles.  At times our opinions, methods, and preferences feel too far apart to find common ground.  We conf...

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 Catastrophizing. Faithful God, My mind constantly swirls with “what ifs,” especially when it comes to my kids. I imagine the worst. I create narratives in my head of unlikely scenarios, as if by my anticipating worry, I ca...

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 My Child Receives A Diagnosis. Good Father, I never expected to walk this road. Hearing the word “diagnosis” feels heavy. It changes things in ways I do not yet understand. There are appointments to schedule, new words to le...

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 Sick Day.   Creator God, You are the one who  knit this child into being— fashioning cells and tissue  to form this one of a kind person I have the honor of parenting. While their body battles internally  through a mirac...

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 Contentment God of Good Gifts, Today, when my heart wanders to thoughts of more, return my gaze to the beauty of what I already have. Remind me of a time when I longed to be a parent.  So much about today is yesterday's dream, and tomo...

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 Seasons of Growth  Steadfast God, I need your fatherly care in these days of change, for myself and for my children. Their changes are expansive and reaching, like load bearing walls being built  on the foundation of who they are bec...

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 Child Has a Panic Attack Good Father, You are no stranger to panic, And you never leave us in it. You who breathed the stars into being once gasped for breath in a garden. You wept. You staggered. You sweat blood. You...

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 the Kids Are Fighting...Again. Our Father, Thank you for giving my children to each other.  Thank you for their bond, and for all they will teach each other about growing together, forbearance, and love that costs something....