I am not sure about any of you but if I wait to pray in the evening this is what my prayer sounds like: "Dear Heavenly Father, Thank you for the day you have given to me and my family. Thank you for blessing us with time together and memories that we have shared. Thank you for (normally a specific event during the day). Please embrace my children with your love and protection for the days to come and zzz........ Honestly I wake up at 2 in the morning due to a child and then I try praying again and it results in a fade away prayer. It is almost if I do not pray right at the very moment I think of it or say I will, the prayer gets pushed aside a couple days because I am absolutely exhausted. This sounds absolutely terrible, and realize if I said I was praying for you I really did, it may have not been done in a timely manner if I didn't do it right away, but boy were my intentions good.
I just thought this was how I was going to be, a fall asleep in the middle of the prayer kind of gal, and I was actually praying that God felt this was acceptable in this season of my life. However when a MOPS momma, Jessica Cogswell, shared this idea of a God Box with our meeting last week as one of her favorite things, I really feel this was my answer to my mid sleep praying. If you get a chance to read the article, please do, and grab a tissue or two because it is a moving story. The gist of the God Box though is to simply write down your prayers and then put them in the box and then let God take the prayers in writing form. Fabulous right! I recently received a prayer box from my sister in law, which is a very similar concept, but it wasn't until I read this story that it all came together for me. I wrote my prayers in my small prayer box, but at the rate I pray for not losing my sanity, I needed a bigger box because my prayer box filled up quick and then I didn't have the heart to throw away prayers that weren't answered immediately.
Now if you know me, you know how I just feel that I have to look for the perfect thing. To makes sure it is just right for the situation. I honestly got the desire to get a couple other folks God Boxes that are in my life as well. Crazy thing is a became a mad women in Hobby Lobby. I had two kids in tow and I had to find the perfect God Boxes. First of all is there even such thing as perfect? But finding perfect with two kids in a huge arts and craft store is ludicrous. After pacing the store and picking up over fifty boxes, I decided on a perfect box for all of us. I lost Audrey once in the store and I think I told Ayden no fifty times for all the things he found were just what he needed, but I found the boxes I needed and all that other chaos didn't matter. Oh and by the way, Audrey was lost in the store, the girl didn't go looking for help, she just cried and prayed out loud that God would bring her to her mommy. I guess I totally can't be mad at her, but boy I was hoping her defiance of ignoring me and walking away would have been a little more traumatic. (Don't judge, I was a single momma all week long and she was just being a pill.)
I got home, and i began writing prayers like crazy in my small prayer box that I have down on the mail floor. At night I then took the prayers up to my God Box and literally let God take over. Now they are simple things like patience during a particular event, or even for restful sleep for a particular momma who needed it. But the the point is, it is another way for me to just get those prayers out and not feel too guilty for passing out mid prayer. And now my kiddos write things on paper and try to pass them off as prayers for the box as well. They normally stay in my little prayer box and we talk about them when we get a chance.
There it is. Something as simple as a larger box, has simplified my life and I am super excited to fill this box up with lots of prayers for anyone who asks. :)
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