Prayers For an Anxious Time

Just before Thanksgiving 2007, we knew we were getting close and that made Elise and I all the more anxious. So one Friday morning at our Men's Journey Bible Study, I asked Joe Leimer to pray for me. As he did, it hit me: "We need to invite everyone over to pray for us!" I talked with Elise and she was excited about the idea and so we called some of our dearest friends and invited them over for an hour of prayer in our living room. Burt, Sarah and Joe, Sara, Mike and Cheryl, and Todd were all able to make it.

Joe did a beautiful job leading the time and, man, were there some beautiful prayers lifted up that evening. Elise and I were a slobbering/sobbing mess as we felt so loved and were so touched by the care of all our friends for Mia! The only downside was that Keiffer and Bower thought that our little prayer circle was for them and they cried and pawed us for attention all the way through the hour. It was a little shocking that they weren't more conditioned by now to our nightly hour of prayer but...