Today was a blessing on so many levels.  Among the highlights, I had the privilege of teaching our 6th graders about prayer.  We pray to God with intent--the intent of being heard: knocking (gaining God's attention), seeking God's face (having God focus His attention on us as in a face-to-face discussion), and asking God to meet our needs, and also the needs of others.  At the end of the lesson, each child paired up with one other child to pray for a half-minute for one need the other child had.  These kids are so great!  They really seemed to understand the concept of "pray continuously" and that God was listening to them with the intent to answer their prayers.

Another blessing was of a self-revelatory nature.  Seeing one's own heart can be an upsetting and haunting thing (given our hearts are desperately sick).  I have had to gaze upon my own for two days.  Praise God He is larger than my heart and more forgiving than I am.  There is so much growing I must do.  Yet, God tells us that the more we are forgiven, the more we will love Him.  Perhaps this will grow my love for Him.