This weekend I spoke at a couple of Mother / Daughter Teas. At each of the events I had the moms and their daughters at the end of our time together join hands and pray together. I asked the moms to pray for their daughters, then, I asked the daughters to pray for their moms.
When this idea first came out of my mouth, as I was telling them what we were about to do I have a few strange looks, but as I looked up after doing this with the second group of girls, ages 13-18, I saw several girls and their moms with tears in their eyes. The act of praying together, moms, is so powerful.
I had started by telling them that I had been in a conversation the week prior where my friends and I were discussing what to do when we just couldn’t not make ourselves like someone. One of the my friends suggested to the other, “pray for her”. She said, “I did it once and found it was difficult to dislike someone I was praying for”. So, I suggested this idea to the moms and daughters at the tea, because as moms and daughters, or humans in general often times we come to a point where we just don’t like each other. And, therefore, if you’re praying for each other, well, that will be more difficult to do.
Not only that but prayer is a strengthening bond that will not only bond the two of you together but the two of you with God. To me there is nothing bad about that.
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popcorn, goodies, a movie, PJs, sleeping bags, and a pillow fight in the living room floor, just the two of you. It could be tons of fun and will bring you back to childhood or the teenage years yourself.
There are many of you moms out there who will read this title and thing, “potty training” and though I am not far away from having to train child #2 I am not quite ready to talk about it. Instead this post is going to throw you off guard a lot. It is about having conversations in the potty, the bathroom, the restroom whatever you want to or do call it.
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