Prayer for Our Homes

PRAYER FOR OUR HOMES

Help us dethrone the Pharaohs who too often rule our homes. For cowering beneath these pyramids of needs are the real fiends –the menacing insecurities of adolescents, the lethal bickering of their parents, the whines of needy toddlers, and the all‑too‑common household hollers that oppress that most precious commodities of family. Give us a Moses moment! Redemption in a sink full of grimy resentments –emotional freedom from the Pharaonic foe so that we may bring up our children in more peaceable homes. For when our houses enshrine tranquility then outer world will follow inner lead, rock‑hard hearts will soften grips and all that’s enslaved will lithely slip into the soft of freedom found. May we take off our shoes to walk around until we will see our houses as the hallowed ground from which God speaks.

— Chaya Lester, Jerusalem, Israel