Our words to our children

The focus this week was on how a woman's words can affect her children. It was very encouraging. I wanted to share just a couple quotes from this chapter that really touched me.

"It is an awesome responsibility, this job called motherhood.
We have the privilege of shaping and molding an eternal soul for a very short,
very fleeting moment of time. And one of the primary ways
we accomplish this feat is with the words we speak."

"The most important traits we praise are those that exhibit
godly character....If even a sprout of these fruits peeks
through the soil, a wise mother will fertilize the
sprout with positive words in hopes of a bountiful harvest."

Mrs. Jaynes also encourages us as mothers (and really any woman who has contact with children) to pray scripture for our children. Also, to make sure and let our children know we are praying for them. One of the Scriptures she suggests is Psalm 97:10 "Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked." I wanted to share an example of turning a verse into a prayer for our children. Below is this verse turned into my prayer for my children.

I pray that my children will love you Lord and hate evil. That
You would preserve their souls; and that you Lord would
deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.