A Prayer for Choosing to Believe God Is Good

Updated Apr 05, 2024

An absolute bundle of nervous energy, she sat across from me in the small counseling room, trying to wrap her mind around the positive pregnancy test confirmed on the sheet of paper in front of her. Her stress had everything to do with her stage of life and the total and radical shifting of priorities and plans a new baby meant. Instead of the freedoms of retirement calling her name, long, sleepless nights, tantrums, diapers, and the realities and risks of being an older mom now loomed in the not-so-distant future. She’d been living happily in one reality, and now a new one inserted itself into her life without permission…or so she thought.

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Brooke McGlothlinBrooke McGlothlin is the Founder of Million Praying Moms, Host of the Million Praying Moms podcast, and author of seven books, three of which hit the ECPA bestseller list. Her latest, Everyday Prayers for Peace and Praying Mom: Making Prayer the First and Best Response to Motherhood, speaks to the power of a life partner with God in prayer. She’s a wife of 20+ years and mom to two teenage boys who make their home in the mountains of Appalachia, calling southwestern Virginia home.

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