Father, as women we bear so much and often feel that all that goes wrong in our children, our husbands, our workplace is our fault, our failing and we hurt deeply because of it. The well of love within us is so great that each blow that our families receive we feel responsible for. If only we had not burned the bread and disappointed our husbands. If only we had not yelled at our child when they broke this or that...the truth is that most of us do the best we can and give the best we can and succeed at times and miss the mark at times. We hide what we feel when we are disappointed so often and others do not know the deep longing that we have in our hearts to be better. We keep going because we must or because we ought to without the luxury of breakdowns or the comfort of openly weeping at the thoughts of our fears or our pain. because someone must carry the weight of the burdens of our families. And then we reach a point where we feel so broken from it all...that we feel like total failures under the stress of circumstances.

The truth is that our children when they reach adulthood make their own choices...we have taught them and loved them...and then they choose. Our husbands, like us carry their own burdens and they choose their own course...right wrong or indifferent. Father help this good woman to see that she is your child and she has stood in the face of great adversity which in itself is a victory. She has been the rock for her family during these difficult times. She has errored no more or less than any other mother and while some of the choices made by those she loves would have been different...if she had made them for them, they were made and are now in the past. Touch her Father and relieve the burden of useless and undeserved guilt that she is carrying. Let her bless your name because you have given her the strength to stand despite what she is going through. Let her feel comfortable in pouring out her heart before you... her fears, her pain, her concerns and tears knowing that you care and that you hear her. Let her understand that we can only love and do our best...and that the choices of our children and families are their own and burdens that they must carry in their lives...just as we carry our own.

Father relieve her heart from those burdens that are not hers to own. Let her remember that you in your wisdom sent your son to take upon him every error, every sin because you knew that in our imperfection we would make them...and let her feel relief knowing that she is forgiven for whatever errors were made...but if done in true repentance so is this son that she loves and every other human being that is in Christ. Rather than carrying useless guilt from the past that has no purpose and is not hers to suffer...let her use her faith to stand in the gap for those that she loves in continued prayer and supplication...and in Agape love, for it is at this place that she can deeply experience YOUR strength to be the light that those she loves may see. Father strengthen this woman that she may continue to walk in your grace...for it is there if she believes. She does not need to be superwoman...just a woman who in her deep and abiding love for you and her family does her best to trust in your power and mercy and your plan for her continued journey through this life...for we walk by faith not by sight. In Jesus name...amen!