Pray

Every Monday morning from 7:20 to 7:40 I volunteer at my son's middle school. The program I volunteer for it called walk-about. The school asked parents to commit to walking the halls during times like mornings when kids are walking around waiting to start the day or during lunch.

So I go. I walk. Sometimes I stand in one place if there is a group of kids congregating for a long period of time. At first it was a duty. I felt like a security patrol. They give me a walkie talkie and a clip board. Each time I tell the office I don't need them. But they want me to have it just in case....of what I am not sure.

A few weeks ago what started as my duty....my time to put in to help...became something else. God showed me why I was there...why I stand in the halls.

I pray.

I began to pray for each child that walks by me.

I meet their eyes and smile.

God gives me a window in to their hearts.

I get to carry their burdens and pray for love, worth and value over them.

They have no idea I am praying for them.

But I hope they have a feeling....a peace...the presence of God around them that day...something they aren't sure where it is coming from...but know it is there.

I am convinced...that our youth (and adults too) have lost their sense of worth and value and have no idea how to identify themselves. They (we) are lost in the identity of the world...or our past...of hurts.

And I am even more convinced that the only way to change that is to share Jesus with the world.

My mission field....is my family and who ever God places in front of me today.

As you walk through the store, sit at work, drive your car....pray for the person who walks or drives by you. You wonder whay you would pray for....just start praying and God will give you the words.

(I am late for work...so I have to end here....I will be back more often now!!!!)

In love, Teresa