By Ocieanna Fleiss | September 26, 2011

Dear Lord, I love and need you. I long to hide in the shelter of Your wings. Thank You for sparing my life, so I can live and love my dear family. Help us to love with joy and patience. Keep our lives slow and peaceful, full of serving others and not ourselves. Be with…

Mommy-O Prayer: I Don’t Know What to Pray

By Ocieanna Fleiss | September 19, 2011

Dear Lord, I don’t know what to pray. My pleads to You are so imperfect. But I don’t have to search for the perfect words or topics. You know my weakness and intercede for me. I lift my sweet kids up to You this day. Help them to rest in Your grace and love. Know…

Mommy-O Prayer: Thy Word

By Ocieanna Fleiss | September 5, 2011

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Psalm 119:105 Dear Lord, Thank You for choosing to speak to us through the glorious redemption story You revealed through Scripture’s treasured pages. It feeds, guides, and gives us strength. Guide me, Lord. Help me to lead my children to feast on…

Rejoice in All Things? Really?

By Ocieanna Fleiss | August 25, 2011

The Bible says to rejoice in all things. All things? Really? Even the yucky stuff that comes with being a mommy? I know the Bible says I’m supposed to, but it’s hard, don’t you think? Usually, when that tinge of conviction comes that perhaps this is an opportunity to rejoice (instead of complain, whine, or…

Mommy-O Prayer: Quiet Their Souls

By Ocieanna Fleiss | August 22, 2011

Dear Lord, I lift my sweet kids up to You this day. Help them to rest in Your grace and love. Know them, Lord, and guide them. Quiet their souls as they seek You. Help me to honor You by serving them with joy and grace. Let me reflect You to them. I can’t do…

Mommy-O Prayer: You Know Me! I’m Not Alone

By Ocieanna Fleiss | August 15, 2011

O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my path and my lying down and are acquainted with all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, you know it altogether. You hem me in, behind…

Mommy-O Prayer: Special edition from a month after my cardiac arrest

By Ocieanna Fleiss | August 8, 2011

This week’s Mommy-O prayer is from about a month after my cardiac arrest. I was still resting a lot and even the littlest things would wear me out, but I wanted to be with my family so much. Dear Lord, please help us to rejoice in these down times. Give me energy to do laundry.…

Mommy-O Prayer

By Ocieanna Fleiss | August 1, 2011

Dear Lord, thank you for being a loving, kind, serving master. Your grace is amazing beyond words. Please help me to get through this day, filled to abundance with your peace and trusting completely in you for my strength. Dear Lord, I pray you keep each child in your loving hands today. Help them rest…

Walk in Love and a Saturday Morning Hike

By Ocieanna Fleiss | July 28, 2011

“And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” Eph. 5:2 ESV This past Saturday our family went on a long long walk. Well, long for us. We traipsed through a forest trail that was two miles in and two miles out. Four…

Mommy-O Prayer

By Ocieanna Fleiss | July 25, 2011

Dear Father, I praise you for being the Lord of creation–above all the heavens and earth. Thank you that you are all wise and full of knowledge and power. I stand in awe of you. And even though you are Lord of all things…you know me, love me, delight in me. I love you, my…

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