A Prayer for Our Graduate

A Prayer for Our Graduate
June 28, 2001

Today is a special day for us as Alexa officially is graduated from high school – 13 years of homeschool. Thank You, Lord, for each year, every accomplishment, every obstacle overcome, for the person of faith, dedication, ambition, and love that You have made her in these sometimes long and lonely years. Thank you that we, her family, have had all this time to enjoy and know each other. Thank you for this time to prepare her to the best of our ability to go on now. We pray for You to call her forward – to new relationships, to career and educational pursuits, to new horizons but all within a single-minded pursuit of knowing You.

Bless her relationships and give her friends – true friends who stand upon Your Truth – encouragers. Make her paths straight.

Lord, prepare that special person who will one day be her life’s partner. Develop godly leadership, wisdom, and compassion in him. Give him a servant’s heart like her father’s. Establish the work of his hands and put your glory in him. Mold him and her that they will blend their faith and personalities and spirits into Your Perfect Unity.

Give her the desires of her heart and glorify Yourself in her life and being. Remind her often that You are in control of every detail of her life and You desire to bless her. Help her to acknowledge her utter dependence upon You, remain steadfast in faith, and be gracious to all, ready to give a defense of her faith and show others The Way.

Take her where You want her to go. Be her God and she Your child, your bondswoman.

Amen