A Prayer for

Hunger

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Hayden has a seemingly ever-increasing appetite.  I set the limit on milk at five gallons a week.  Hayden drinks more milk than the rest of us combined.  He fills his glass to the rim; sometimes over the rim.  But you know what they say, milk does the body good.

He eats pizza, and well, anything on his plate, like a ravenous beast.  It's like he can't get enough of what's on his plate.  I suspect he would still lick the plate if I let him.

We will celebrate Hayden's sixteenth birthday on October 30.  Some gifts I want for Hayden won't come wrapped in brightly colored paper. 

One meaningful gift I pray that Hayden will encounter in the years to come is a hunger; one that reaches beyond steak and eggs.  I pray that Hayden will grow in his hunger for God and for His word.

And as he hungers, I trust that he will continually be fed by the word and by the spirit of God.

I pray that through this hunger, a desire would arise to be the man God has purposed him to be.

Blessed are those

who hunger and thirst for righteousness,

 for they will be filled.

 -Matthew 5:6

I look to the evidences that Hayden is being physically filled; greasy fingers from fried chicken and a milk moustache.  I picture Hayden's growing frame; every time I turn around, his sleeves have inched up his growing forearms.  He has increased in stature so quickly that my eyes and my heart are strained from watching its speed.  Yet I pray he will find that deeper hunger.  I trust that he will be filled.  And as I continue to watch him grow, I will be thankful.