Dear Lord: A prayer

Lord, I need you now.

I'm going home to visit my parents.

I need your strength, your confidence, and your wisdom.

I need the grace to respect and honor my parents, even as we disagree.

I need the strength to show them who I am and what I want.

I need the knowledge to be able to counter their arguments.

I need the patience to deal with my parents and their preconceptions about what and who I should be.

Thank you Lord, for being with me. Whatever happens this weekend, I pray that it is your will and your wisdom that guides it.

"Defend the poor and fatherless; do justice to the afflicted and needy. Deliver the poor and the needy; free them from the hand of the wicked." Psalm 82:3-4