Praying Circles Around your Children, Valentine’s Day

For Valentine’s Day, I wanted to do something for my children inspired by our study, Praying Circles Around your Children. I liked the idea of the prayer posters, but I couldn’t see myself being able to pull that off. Here’s what I did, instead.-I made heart shaped cookies, stacked and iced them. I spent some time earlier in the week praying about one word I thought described each of my children. I wrote it on a paper heart and glued it on a brown paper Valentine bag. I felt like a grade school girl again, cutting paper hearts out of pretty (and cool for the boys) paper. On the other side of the bag, I glued another heart with a scripture reference on it! I put some cookies in each bag.

I’m praying my teens pay attention to the word and it sinks into the fertile ground of their hearts and grows in rich soil, not rocky ground.

I pray those scriptures stick in their mind and heart and remind them of the wonderful beings that they are!

hi, I’m Kathleen Guire Just a little bit more about me! I’ve wanted to be an author since I was a little girl, making up songs on the swing set at an army base in Denver, Colorado. My journey as a fiction author began in a Barnes and Noble bookstore with a friend and her tween daughter. The young girl was searching for a book she could read, but everything she picked up was either inappropriate, filled with curse words, or contained explicit sexual content. As a Christian mom of seven kids, I understand the struggle. Finding books with Christian themes that are both wholesome and engaging is tough. Library and bookstore trips can quickly become frustrating. My friend’s tween’s disappointment at not finding something suitable was all too familiar to me. I took action and wrote my first fiction book, aiming to create stories that are clean, moral, and filled with unexpected plot twists. Since then, I’ve continued writing because I believe every tween, teen, YA, and mom should have access to clean thrillers and mysteries. My books blend wholesome content, moral values, and intriguing plots, addressing culturally relevant topics without compromising on quality or integrity.