About those late night discussions...

I have had a lot of late-night discussions lately, especially with one of my three girls.  I guess summer is the time to have them.  :)  I really love sleep (isn't there a proverb about that?) and have trouble being gracious late at night.  To help myself, I modified a prayer about being patient with little ones and applied it to teens and pre-teens:

Oh, give me patience when searching young souls

Wake me at night with their questioning goals

Give me wise and loving eyes

Keep my lips from sarcastic replies

And let not clumsiness, haste or fear

Deny me this chance to listen and hear

To speak one more time, to console and advise

Before they are gone to live their lives.

(Original prayer here.)