Dear Lord,

Please give me the strength to carry on.  This is getting really hard.  Life keeps throwing me curve balls.  I seem to keep getting hit right in the stomach with them.  Why is it the harder I try to help a certain someone, the less she seems to appreciate all that she's been given?  Then, she turns around and asks for more, more, more.  I can do nothing right in her eyes, Lord.  Please forgive me for whining and complaining.  I just don't know what to do anymore.  I feel like a train wreck.  I hate conflict.  I hate feeling like a failure.  Please give her direction. Please give me direction.  Please help her to see her many blessings.  Please help her to appreciate them, as well.  Please help me to let go, if that's what I need to do.  That's the hardest part...letting them grow up, when it's time.  Wanting to protect them and knowing when to let them fall is a very thin, yet fuzzy line. 

And, Lord, please heal and restore my dad's health.  I miss him.  I'm losing him.  I don't know what I'll do without him.  This is breaking my heart.  Please restore his memory.  Please comfort his heart.  Your mom and dad are the two people in your life who love you unconditionally and forever.  They are always there for you, no matter what.  I've already lost one.  I can't bear to lose the other.  I know he's had a long and wonderful life, Lord, but, I still need my daddy.  Please.

And then, there's that other matter.  I need another miracle, Lord.  You know my heart.  That's all I need to say. 

These three requests are a lot to ask, I know.  However, I know that through You, all things ARE possible.  I have loved you since I was a small child, Lord, and always will.  I don't know how people make it through one day without You.  I'm trusting in You, Lord.  I know that your plan is perfect.  I love you with all my heart.  In Jesus name, I pray.

Your child,
Lee