Dear Heavenly Father,

I pray that you give us:

A sweetness of speech

A desire to work through struggles and stick to it when we are tempted to flee

Eyes only for each other

A desire to serve the other

The discipline to quickly forgive and to ask for forgiveness

A sense of how we are fitting together – us two being better than one

The willingness to really listen and consider the other’s view instead of “presuming’

A growing thankfulness for one another

A time to pray together

A time to laugh

Deliver us from:

Taking one another for granted

Failing to appreciate or build up

Wandering eyes

Emotional divorce

From those who would tear apart our marriage

From work overtaking relationships

Please:

Keep adding layers and layers of glue into our unions and molding us into ONENESS.

In Jesus’ Name we pray,

Amen

(*I found this prayer on a website by Club 31 Women. I thought it was so appropriate that I have it posted in our bedroom so we can both read it all the time. When I was preparing another blog, the Holy Spirit said, “I want you to use the prayer you found instead of the blog you have started to write.” I, of course, obeyed.)