Prayables | the good teen

Published: Wed, 06/17/20

Wednesday June 17, 2020

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.
Rumi

Practice listening today. Don't just hear what others are telling you, listen with the intent to understand. May God bless you with
compassion, which comes once you learn the holy art of listening well.

Rise up, O God, humankind needs You. Cast a brilliant light over the earth, awake the sleeping, inform the unknowing, send a divine message
to us, those who need You. Bring wholeness, bring wellness, bring peace to our troubled souls.

Ephesians 4:29 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their
needs, that it may benefit those who listen.

GOOD THINGS HAPPEN TO A GOOD TEEN WHO CLEANS

When Antonio Gwynn Jr. saw the damage from protests in his hometown of Buffalo, New York, he grabbed a broom, bought some trash bags and started cleaning the streets by himself.

He started at 2 a.m. on Monday and did not stop cleaning for the next 10 hours. When an organized group of neighbors arrived later that morning to start clearing the damage, they found that Gwynn had already done most of the work.

Gwynn is an 18-year-old high school senior. He told CNN that he saw on the local news that Bailey Avenue in Buffalo was covered in glass and garbage, and he knew people needed to use that street to get to work in the morning.

When word spread of how Gwynn single-handedly took action, his community responded...read more + see video

A FAMILIAR MOTHER'S PRAYER

Please pray for me, I am having a hard time with my teenage daughter. She treats me like I am just her slave, she doesn’t do anything I ask her to do, she talks down to me, because she hears her father do it. She doesn’t have respect for me or her father , and she is always on be phone , I know that this quarantine has been hard on children, they need social interaction, but that is no excuse to be mean and hateful towards me all the time , please pray for me and my family during this teenage time

- Donna