My sons were confined in the hospital three times and admitted in the Emergency Room ten times for the past four months. During those days, all I did was to drop everything and focus on my sons.
Prayer made me stronger.
God was so good in healing my sons through the hands of the efficient health care givers who rendered their expertise, concern, love, and care.
Let me give you the first prayer to launch Prayerful Sunday, A Mother's Prayer.
O God, help me always to remember
that you have given to me
the most important task in the world,
that task of making a home.
Help me to remember this when I am tired
of making beds, and washing clothes,
and cooking meals, and cleaning floors,
and mending clothes, and standing in shops.
Help me to remember it
when I am physically tired in body,
and when I am weary in mind
with the same things
which have to be done again and again,
day in and day out.
Help me never to be irritable
and never to be impatient.
Keep me always sweet.
Help me to remember
how much my husband
and my children need me,
and help me not to get annoyed
when they take me for granted,
and when they never seem
to think of the extra work
they sometimes cause me.
Help me to make this home
such that the family will always be
eager to come back to it,
and such that, when my children grow up
and go out to their own homes,
they will have nothing
but happy memories of the home
from which they have come.
Through Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. Amen.
Adapted from: Straight from the Heart A Prayer Companion by Father Mario Jose C. Ladra
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My son was also hospitalized 2 weeks ago! And yes, I also dropped everything just to make sure that he's ok! I even wrote a post on my blog about it! Thank you for sharing the prayer! That's a very beautiful reminder too! God bless you! :)
ReplyDeleteI read your article about it! I'm so glad that your son is already feeling well like my sons do. God bless you and your family. By the way, I love your blog! :)
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