at night and make us wonder what lies in store for our child’s future—are the ties that forever bind our heart to God’s. Our struggles are his entry points. And, as my friend Lisa’s mom likes to remind her kids as they parent their kids, “Children improve your prayer life.” I still love what Jack Hayford said about prayer (I quoted him in the first few pages of Praying the Scriptures for Your Children). Prayer, he said, is a “partnership of the redeemed child of God working hand in hand with God