Dear Lord,
You are an awesome God, a loving father, I praise and thank-you for being all that I need. Bless our family Lord, I am too overwhelmed tonight to even list the needs that we have. Everyday is becoming more difficult, every hour is a new battle. I thank you for your promise to not give us more than we can handle and I cling to that promise. Lord, please hold my family in the palm of your hand, may we feel your love and grace surround us. Give us strength for each day and help us to be able to praise you and honor you at the end of each day. Thank-you for the gift of your son.... Amen
Dear God,
I have been blessed with a wonderful family. Unfortunately, I would go to church but was not very close to you. I guess I was there in your home more for people to know that I was a good christian person. Now that my boys are in their teen years, it has been difficult at times. I come to you and pray, and now I understand your word. I love it and feel bad for all of my sins. Thank you for loving us and giving up your life for us. I pray to you to help my boys, and my husband. I will always believe in you and at times I know you are next to me. I feel you! I pray for all of the families that are having trouble with their teens. Love them and pray... and I know that it will be okay. Have patience... I need to believe it... because Jesus Christ believed in us.
I Love You!!
Amen
Dear Lord,
I pray for all of my children, especially my boys with RAD. Give them peace that only you can give. Also be with my daughters. Especially Riley, to have a hunger to know you.
Dear Lord,
You know I don’t have the perfect prayer. Maybe I don’t even have the right words.
I just know that I need help, and I’m here to ask that of you. Not for you to move a mountain or bless me with a great miracle. Just for some peace for tomorrow. If you can help me through one day, I would be most grateful.
Heavenly Father,
My son is struggling so much and I don't know what to do for him anymore. Please help him learn patience, and help me find the strength that I need to keep showing my love for him until he can learn. He needs me, Lord. I know that he does. But he also needs You too. Please speak to him as he lies sleeping, and remind him that you are nearby. Please remind him that he is always safe and loved now. Please help him understand that all of the people who once hurt him are gone. Please make sure that he knows that I love him and that I am not his enemy. Please hold him close to you and whisper in his ear. Please tell him that it is safe for him to relax and trust me. Please Lord, please help me too, because I feel so alone and broken. Please help me because I have nowhere else to turn. Please help me because I feel like this life is killing me and I don't think that it's my time to go. Please give me the courage I need to keep giving to him. Thank you for loving us both.
Amen
Please pray for my sons who have attachment disorder... Liam and Kieran... in Jesus name give us patience and wisdom to know how to help them feel secure and loved.
Dear Lord,
You know me, you know my thoughts , my feelings and my failings. I have nothing to hide from you, how could I? I sit here, obsessed with my own life and its problems, without understanding the true nature of love and life. In these pages I have found a measure of what the human spirit is and what it can achieve and overcome. I see here people that do not seek miracles, they just need a little bit of strength every now and then. I don't think that is too much to ask. As a man, totally estranged from this situation, I simply ask, that you reserve your finest works and efforts for these people. I will be thinking of them, though I have no reason to, maybe your will is already at work.
Maybe your finest work is bringing love to people, from those who have no reason to give it, your works are truly amazing. I give my love and thoughts to these wonderful people and hope that they know that someone, somewhere is thinking of them, for whatever comfort that may give.
God Bless.
Lord, I ask You to let Your Holy Spirit bring to the surface memories of hurt and pain from any situation in my childhood, to let me hand them all over to You and that You will fill every space with Your loving and Divine peace. Help me to know that I am a beautiful child of yours, loving in Your eyes and heart and completely loved by You. Help me to shed the feelings of worthlessness, nothingness, shame, guilt and anger and to experience only Your healing peace. Let me now see myself as Your most beautiful creation. Lord I hand this all over to Your gentle and loving care, knowing You will hear me today and heal me forever.
Dear Lord,
Please wrap you loving arms around this family as we grieve our loss. Our pain is horrid, but our faith remains. Give us the strength and wisdom to know and accept your will. Please return our children to us where they will be safe and learn to be strong. Help me to be the one that can love them forever. Protect them while they are not with us and most of all tell them that they are loved!!!!
Dear Lord,
Thank you for these prayers from all these other parents. My heart feels so full - knowing that there are other people who share my faith and our living through a situation similar to mine.
Lord, you know my youngest birth daughter is starting to seek attention in some ways that could lead down a wrong path. Please help her know how much I love her and how sorry I am that I have been so preoccupied in trying to deal with our special needs daughter. Please fill up her voids with your love and draw her near to you. Please help me to be able to give both daughters the love and attention they need from their mom. Please heal both my daughters from their pain.
Dear Lord, help me be the best mother I can be for all 5 of my children. Help me to always point my children to you.
Father God,
I have come to You tonight in need of peace and comfort. God, You know the burdens which are heaviest on my heart. I pray that You grant me wisdom to deal with each and every issue from each and every one of my children. I thank You for every child you have placed in our care. Each one has been a blessing to us and we are so thankful for the changes they bring into our lives. God, I humbly beseech You to help me look at each child individually. Help me to address their individual needs, rather than lumping them all together into an ovewhelming mess. Father, I know that you hear me and will provide for me. I thank You. Tonight, when I logged on to this page, I was greeted with music that only You could have known that I would respond to. God, you are an awesome God!
Dear Heavenly Father,
I come to you today out of concern for our adopted son. He is so precious to us, but he is struggling. We pray that you will give us patience in addressing his needs. We pray that you will give the people who are trying to help him the skill and knowledge to do so. Father, you gave him to us and we rejoice in that. Help us to be the best parents that we can be and that we can begin to heal his little heart. Thank you father for everything you have given us. In his name, Amen
God please bless these families that are so tired. Please give them the strength that they need. Thank you for getting me to this website so that I can learn, and be better prepared for our son. Your word says that you didn't give us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. Thank you for these gifts you have already given us, that are going to help us in parenting our son. We will not be afraid to do this. Thank you God. In Jesus name. Amen.
Dear Lord, please hear my prayers for my child and my family. We are struggling, Lord. Please help us to get through this holiday season safely and calmly. Sometimes the RAD life feels like a spiral staircase that keeps going round and round and round, with no way to get to the very top. I'm tired, Lord. So tired. Please shine your light on us so that we may safely find our way. Amen
Lord, help me keep this song in my heart and on my tongue through the whining and the rages:
The Joy of the Lord will be my strength.
I will not falter, i will not faint.
He is my shepherd, I am not afraid.
For the Joy of the Lord is my strength.
Lord, I thank you for blessing me, and I even thank you for the ache in my heart because I know that means that my heart has been well used. I pray that you would give me faith, and hope, and that you would renew my strength. Help heal his hurts, replace his doubt with security, and show him the permanence of my love. Help him not only to understand it, but to believe that it is true. Keep him from temptation, bless his day, and bless our relationship. Guide me in my every action, Lord, and help me be the person that you would have me be. Amen.
Oh Heavenly father, Lord, I pray for your will and direction in dealing with this very challenging and obviously very hurt young lady! Lord, I pray that on the days when I feel that it is hopeless, your sweet spirit will whisper in my ear, the truth! I pray for your healing hands to touch my special gal and help her to break down the wall she has built around her heart. Thank you Lord, for bringing her into my life. I know I have been truly blessed!
Gracious God, my heart is heavy with my own failures. I try to excuse them and explain to myself why they occurred, because I want to be free from the feeling that I am unworthy and incapable of being all that I can be. But I find it easier to accept your forgiveness than to forgive myself. When I try to forgive myself, it seems I only remember and re-play my failures in my mind, and a sense of hopelessness floods over me. Help me to know that my past actions are a part of my growing humanity and that even when I fail to live up to what is your will for me, every single moment can be lived anew.
All around me people are suffering. When I turn away from my own problems, I feel sorrow for the problems of others. I am daily confronted with the pain and suffering of so many innocent people in my life and in the world. Suffering seems to eagerly eat at the edges of life until people are worn down with sadness and despair. Even though I do not understand the reasons for suffering, I believe that you are a God of love, a God of compassion. I pray that you will be with all those this day that are in pain, who suffer silently and alone, who feel abandoned and left by the side of life's road. Wrap your arms of grace around them, until they know they are safely held in your embrace. And, I pray, that you will fill my heart with the same compassion, and give me eyes to see how I can lovingly be a part of their healing.
Dear God, as I go to bed ready to close my eyes in sleep, I think of all of the things I wish I had not said, and had not done. I offer those to you with sorrow, and pray that you will wrap them in your blanket of forgiveness. Thank you for this day. Thank you for all that has been done, and even for all that has been left undone. Let me rest now in your peace, so that tomorrow I may be strong enough to make better decisions for the good of myself... and for my family. Amen.
Dear God, Help my unbelief. When I'm in pain, I forget that you care about me. I forget that you have helped me through my trials. I forget that you hold me in your arms to keep me safe. I forget that you are feeling my pain with me. I forget that you love me. I forget that I am important to you. Show me your presence - let me feel your enveloping love. Heal my hurting soul. Thank you for staying with me even in my unbelief. Amen
Blessed Father, Christ the Son...
It is a long lonely day Lord that I come to you again in sorrow and tears. I have no longer the joy you gave to me. I cannot find it, it has all but disappeared. She is such a beautiful child, a young woman now. Covered in tattoos, stained by sexual adventures, and so cold to us. How we love her... her father, her brothers and me - her adoptive mother. What did we do wrong, why does she stay away? She knows we love her, she knows we cray. She knows we are on the outside looking in, trying to find a way to reach her. I thank you Father for this child. We would not be the family we are if it were not for her. However pained we are, however angry we may become, however confused we are at her rejection, forgive us father. Reach her, pull her back to us. Let her see the beauty you gave to her. Wipe away all of the anger and hurt we have between us. We love her Lord God. We have loved her since the day you brought her to us. She was never not our child. And Father God, if she is to be away from us then give us strength to face the emptiness and protect her God, please protect her. In love and tears, I pray... amen
Dear Lord, I come to you in prayer to ask for protection for my boy who doesn't know that he is loved. Please help him to know inside that we do want to help him. I thank you, Lord for your help. Amen
In Jesus' name I pray that each child who is thought of each day on this
website, may receive in their hearts the love, peace and security that is
so desperately needed. In your name I pray that your presence is known to each parent struggling to reach their children. I pray that your love, forgivness and protection will be spread over all of us this day. Amen
Please pray for my family that we can find it in our hearts to continue loving this child that fights us so badly. Please watch over our young son, and all of our children, and keep us all safe as we do your work. Lord, please also bless those who refuse to help us as we travel this most difficult journey, and those who continue to stand in our way. Amen
Dear Lord, Please help me deal with my anger. I am so weak and it is overtaking my heart and soul. I need to remain calm and empathic to help my son and my family. Help me to be stronger than the evil one who is trying to drive a wedge between us all. Amen
Dear Lord, I ask for help for those parents and families who have a RAD
child. Please give them strength and endurance to know their love will prevail.
Lord,
I come before you and ask for strength, guidance, and wisdom as I set out on this journey. Please award patience and peace to the restless. Strength and hope to the weak. Let the light shine in on dark corners. Let troubled hearts see the beauty often overlooked in confusion. I ask all of this so we may all be the type of servers we need and ought to be. Thank You for believing in us.
Forever and always
Amen.
My heart is broken, Lord. Again.
Surround our child with people who will speak TRUTH to him. Help him to listen to truth, even if he cannot hear it from us.
Protect him when he will not allow us to protect him. Help him understand that the rejection is not from us.
Give us wisdom and patience and tender hearts that can be broken again, healed again and vulnerable enough to let the hurtful words and actions slide off our backs.
Help US to hear truth however you need to speak it.
Thank you for this dear child. Thank you for the pain that goes with the priveledge of being his parents, for it is making us even more what we need to be. Strengthen our hearts and our arms as we hold tight to the man we know you plan for him to become.
Keep us centered in the palm of your hand, and give us peace and joy for the journey along with the pain and struggle. Thank you for not leaving us hopeless.
Yours
May today there be peace within. May you trust God that you are exactly
where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities
that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received,
and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content
knowing you are a child of God. Let His presence settle into your bones, and
allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for
each and every one of us.
My Heavenly Father,
Please give me the patience I need to deal with my daughter today.
Please open my heart to the love that should flow between us.
Please give me the strength to make it to tomorrow.
In the name of Jesus Christ,
Amen.
Father, Please help me to remember that you have no grandchildren, that my children are lent to me by you. Remind them that we are all adopted by our earthly parents and you are the true parent.
Help me to remember that you love my RAD's the same way you love the children who can love you back. Please help me to love them the same way, expecting nothing in return, constantly filling myself with Your love so I have love to give them.
I believe that You make no mistakes, and that each child is unique and lovable if we only dig deeply enough through their pasts, walls and denials. My capacity to love is as small as a grain of sand, while Yours is as huge as the Universe. Sometimes I am weakened, knowing they may never love me, acknowledge my love for them or appreciate anything I do for them.
I realize that if I give these things with a proper attitude, I will be able to accept the constant rejections. Then, too, if I give with my heart I should expect nothing in return.
I must have hurt You so many times through the years of my life, denying You when I was hurt, blaming you for my infirmities. How then can I expect more of my children who were so hurt and humiliated before I even knew them.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for allowing me the opportunity to parent these children and love them. You must trust me, more than I ever knew, to give me these gifts. I love you and I love my children, so very much.
I have given and given and given to my kid, and I don't have anything left over to give to me. Please say a prayer for a burned out RAD mommy who needs to find her way back to good health. No name. No state. Just pray. God should know who I am.
Dear God,
I am so tired today. Please lift me up and carry me to where I need to be.
Me
Dear Lord,
I ask that you give courage and peace to all those who are involved with a
RAD child. Please help them to never give up on their child, as there is
hope at the end of the tunnel for everyone. Please let these kids out there
know that you love them, and can teach them that you love them; as well as
their parents.
Amen
I am asking for prayers for my family. Prayers for strength, and patience. We are very tired and our RAD child continues to challenge us on a daily basis. Please say a prayer today that my family is strong enough to continue to love him, and find the patience that we need to keep helping him. Please pray for safety for my family, and for all RAD families who are reading this.
My Heavenly Father,
I come to you tonight in prayer for me and my family. I ask you to forgive us as we struggle and make so many mistakes. I ask you to give us strength in these hard times. I ask you to heal our broken family so that we can be a comfort to each other instead of only causing each other pain.
In Jesus' name,
Amen
Dear friends, I am asking for prayers from all of you today. Prayers for my daughter, prayers for a little more healing, and prayers for RAD families everywhere. This is a heavy load that we all need to carry. Please pray that we will all find the help that we need to reach these hurt children, before it's too late. THANK YOU, and thank you Suz for putting the prayer board back up for us.
Dear God, it's me again. I bet you're getting tired of hearing from me so much these last few weeks, but I'm glad that I finally feel safe enough to share my heart with you a little more often. I'm coming to you today, to ask for a little more strength. This is such a tough job and I just get so tired and stressed out. Please help me continue to be the kind of mom that my child needs me to be. Please help me remember that I need to do a few nice things for myself. Please help me remember that I cannot carry the entire load by myself anymore. Please help me continue to reach out to others for help in my time of need, and remind me that it does not make me a weak person to need others to come to my aide. Thank you for your presence in my life. Thank you for not making me do this alone. Thank you from the bottom of my very broken and tired heart. -Amen
Dear Lord,
I need you now because I am full of stress and anxiety. Reading your Word brings comfort, as I ask you to come and take my heavy burdens. I take each burden, one by one, and lay them at your feet. Please carry them for me so that I don't have to. Replace them with your humble and gentle yoke so that I will find rest for my soul today. I receive your gift of peace of mind and heart. Thank you that I can lie down tonight in peace and sleep. I know that you, Lord, will keep me safe. I am not afraid because you are always with me. Please keep me daily, Lord, in your perfect peace. Amen
Dearest Heavenly Father,
Each of us has burdens and imperfections in our lives, and we are able to work through them or tolerate them, or rise above them because of your love that we feel, and the love of family and friends. But Lord, the RAD child... has so much more to deal with than most of us will ever understand. Please, grant us patience, persistance, love, and understanding for these precious children... teens... and adults. But even more dear Lord, grant them your peace, let them feel your love and ours... amidst their world of confusion. Help each of them to let others help them to confront and overcome what haunts their nights and disrupts their days. Please Lord... grant them patience, love, and understanding too. Help them to learn to love... and let others love them too. Grant them smiles. Grant them parents, teachers, family, and friends... and a community that encircles them with hope and help unending.
Finally dear Father, bless the RAD Family... hold each member close in your heart, giving them the strength to help each other travel this road and confront and conquer this unfair condition. Thank you Lord, for loving us... each and every one of us.
