Prayers for the very mean lunch fairy

Today I wrote a Proverbs 31 Devotion about the battle I sometimes have in my head where I bounce from feeling like a good mom to a bad mom... good, bad... good, bad... and on and on.

So, tell me what kind of mom gets half way to school and realizes this is what her youngest daughter packed in her lunch box?

Ahem.

Yes, well it seems as though my youngest talked her older siblings into taking certain liberties when they were sent to the Target to get a few items for lunches this week.

We now have an abundance of goodies that mama bear does not usually allow said cubs to buy. First, they are expensive. Second, they are crazy full of sugar. And third, a child crazy full of sugar makes a mama crazy in need of sugar and she gains weight.

So, yesterday morning one young cub was fussing at another young cub for taking snacks out of our supply and selling them on the playground at school.

Excuse me?

Yes, it turns out that the youngest likes to play restaurant. Apparently it is in her blood from her father's side. Only instead of selling her wares for money, she sells them for rocks.

Rocks! Like those things we have 15 million of in our front driveway.

All kids at school with moms who say no to sugary snacks for lunch sacks have been very happy this week. Each morning these classmates have been gathering rocks from the school yard. Then at lunch when my youngest sets up her shop, life suddenly gets quite sugary and hyper for some of these kids.

Have mercy.

Too bad the very mean lunch fairy found out about this plan. And too bad lunch pails are placed on hooks outside classrooms. For the very mean lunch fairy devised a plan to foil the sugar factory restaurant.

She flew to the local Subway and purchased a sack containing a ham sandwich and apple slices. She then made a little switcharoo much to the dismay of all the rock toting lunch friends. And of course the very mean lunch fairy blew kisses inside newly packed lunch pail before flying home with the removed sack of sugary wares.

Good mom? Bad mom?

It can wear out even the best of very mean lunch fairies.

So, here's a little list of prayers to lift your spirit and encourage your soul no matter if you are having a good mom or bad mom day.

As a mom I pray...

* I will leave behind any sins or generational strongholds passed down to me from previous generations. I am a new creation in Christ. The old has gone, the new has come! Teach me to become the mom you created me to be.
(2 Corinthians 5:17)

* God will instruct and teach me the way I should go as a mother. God, please counsel me and watch over my family.
(Psalm 32:8)

*I will cast all my anxiety on God because he cares for my children and me.
(1 Peter 5:7)

* My walk will be worthy to be followed by my children. God, please be my shield.
(Psalm 84:11)

* I would not embitter or discourage my children, but instead bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.
(Ephesians 6:4; Colossians 3:21)

* I would only have good things stored up in my heart so that when I speak, the overflow of my heart will be good for my children to hear.
(Luke 6:45)