As a family, one of the practices that we engage in regularly is prayer. Prayer is more than simply speaking to God or asking for what we want or desire. It is the very connection that we share with the God who created us—the connection where we learn God’s desires and where we learn to live and grow into God’s likeness. As we pray together as a spiritual family, we have the opportunity to pray (as Paul did for the Philippian church) that our love would grow in knowledge and action, that our ability to discern the things that truly matter would come in line with God’s will, and that the fruit our lives can bear will be good and plentiful in a world that needs to see what it means to truly be a family—the family of God.
