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A prayer for God to give us what we need by Maggie Meadows Cooper, read by Liam Arton.

For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways to clear the Lord.

Because the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and

my thoughts than your thoughts.

Isaiah 55, 8 through 9.

Not long ago I was talking with a fellow baseball mom at a game.

When my son made a good hit, I joked that I prayed for that one, and the truth is I did,

but not how one might think.

As he walked to the plate, I prayed for favor and for the Lord to help my baby use

his abilities he's been given to help the team.

I prayed for him to look to the Lord for his strength in that moment, but I also prayed

for the Lord to give him what he needs.

And there's nothing easy about that prayer, y'all, because what he needs in that moment

may be to strike out.

It may be losing, and it may mean that I must watch my baby feel hurt and work through

hard things, which is never fun.

As mamas, anytime we see our children hurt, we hurt, and many times we want to save them

and take the hurt away.

But in his great mercy, the Lord has shown me that every what they need prayer is an opportunity

for my children to grow one step closer to becoming who the Lord created them to be.

And for that growth, for that stretching to actually happen, it means going through

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