My First Love

My breath is caught inside my chest.

Words I would speak are lodged in my throat.

My mind is in awe and wonder.

This body longs to dance and embrace, but

these feet remain rooted

for fear of loosing you.

My heart leaps toward yours,

it begs to be with you

for you have touched it.

And now, I know,

it is impossible to return.

Our life is an Example

How often do we honor our parents through prayer or encouragement?

I think we, as young people, get so absorbed with our own lives, that we forget that God wants us to HONOR our parents. Not just through obedience, which we fail at half the time anyway, but through lifting them up in prayer and offering them WORDS of encouragement.

Exodus 20:12 "honor you father and your mother, so it will go well with you and you may have long life in the land (the earth) God has given you."

Do we even know what it means to honor? Thank God for a dictionary cause I knew I needed it when I made a funny face to that question.

To Honor is to: hold someone in high respect; to revere.

They should be completely at the TOP of our prayer list. We need to lift our parent up to God, especially those parents who are struggling with God, because only God can change and mold them. "Do NOT let anyone look down on you because you are young, BUT set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity."

Sometimes I think our parents tend to be our exception to the gossip rule. We go off and talk about everything and all their problems and what we don't like about them to our friends. But Is that Honoring to our parents? Is that honoring to GOD???? How would our attitudes toward our parents change if we were praying for them and their spiritual walk with God.. I wonder?!

Am I stressing enough? How important this is?

How much more honoring is it to be daily lifting them up in prayer? Not praying for selfish wants and desires, but asking God to give them the grace and wisdom in growing with you, Or pray that your parents would discipline and encourage you in a way that will bring you closer to God.

This is so important. I pray that my words will not roll off your shoulders into the dust, but that you would take them and change the world by setting an example with your life!

I'd like to pose these last questions... Do you pray for your parents? Do you offer encouragement to your dad when he is having a rough day? Do you leave a note for your mom on her bathroom mirror telling her she is loved and appreciated? I wish I did when I was near my parents, but It is more difficult being away. I wish I had done more, now that i see how important and how helpful I could have been. But i know God is a professional at making up for lost time and it is never to late to start.

God bless you and teach you in building strong God centered relationships with your parents. And remember, it is NEVER to late!