Prayer cards complete

A special program that Protestant Women of the Chapel (PWOC) held last year was all about prayer. Our awesome Vice President of Programs, Janet M., did an excellent job in showing examples of prayer cards and thoroughly inspiring me to desire prayer cards for our family. Since Loralynn can't read yet, I had to be creative in how to approach these prayer cards. I started the project many months ago and got stumped at many points and all together forgot about the idea for a few months.

The materials I had to gather: patterned paper, photos of each one of us, letter stickers, printable photos from Google images for each of our prayer requests, glue stick, scissors, marker, hole punch (after laminating), and carabiner (or ring) to hold them together.

The other day I was cleaning up one of our stacks of papers and found the labeled photos.
I was re-inspired-- perhaps because this next week I'm teaching my small group of ladies on the chapters of prayer out of the book "A Woman After God's Own Heart."

I finally finished the prayer cards for Loralynn today! (I'm not sure if Tana is quite ready yet to pay attention so I plan to continue saying simple verbal prayers with her for a while longer.) The cards didn't turn out picture-perfect, but I didn't mind. If it goes over well with Loralynn, my hope is to keep doing it as long as I see the benefit. I have been amazed how they've caused me to pray more over this last week that I've been making them.

In order to withstand the hands of a toddler, I need to get them laminated. Nevertheless I began using them this evening when I put Loralynn to bed. She was curious about the picture with the hands up-turned and I explained that sometimes people pray like that when they know they need to let go of something and not hold on so tight. She also liked the painted hands. She wanted to go to bed with the cards-- I guess that's a good sign.

God, help our children to see your work, love, and answered prayers early in their lives!