Grandmother’s Prayer for September 4th

Lord Jesus, I have prayed many prayers. Sometimes I heard Your yes right away. Sometimes it took years before I could look back and see You had been cleaning all along. Both are real. I have been bringing my family to You for decades. The addiction that runs in my son's family. The depression that visits my granddaughter. The pride that has marked my middle child since he was a boy. I am still bringing them. Some weeks, I grow weary of the bringing. But the cleaning is Your work. The asking is mine. I will keep asking. Today, let me ask without trying to manage your timing. Without counting how many years I have been at it. The leper in Mark 1:41 did not say, This has taken too long. He knelt and asked. Let me kneel too — in my chair, with my creaky knees — and ask again for the people I love. You will in Your time. I trust You with the when and the how. Amen.