A personal note about how did this page came into being
We'd like to share with you our motivation for writing this page in case this approach to praying is unusual to you. Prayer is often a very personal thing in which we can find ourselves rushing into God's presence with a whole collection of jumbled ideas. So occasionally we write out our prayers in order to give them focus and intensity.
What you have here is a scripted prayer. We know that there are times when we just want to say as few as a single word to God in prayer such as 'help' or 'why?', but there are also occasions when we want to consider carefully what we would say to the Lord as if he was with us in the room. It is a precious experience to spend time with him and leaves us in a place where we pray with confidence that we are in line with his will. We will write out our prayer so we have a record of the traffic of our souls and then choose a significant time and place to say this prayer. It is at this moment that we do business with our heavenly father. That's the essence of scripted praying.
At key moments of our lives Rosi and I have crafted scripted prayers to pour out our hearts to the Lord. 'Heaven Day' is our prayer in which we thank the Lord for Esther. It took us several weeks to complete and there were many tears along the way but we want you to share our gratitude to God for such a precious daughter.
Some dear friends of ours who live in Grand Cayman let us stay with them over the weekend that would have been Esther's birthday and we decided this was an appropriate day on which to pray our prayer. The location was to be Smith cove (yep, the one in the picture) where First Baptist Church, Georgetown, perform their baptisms. We felt this place was significant to us because, although she was ready to be baptised, Esther never took that step for some highly principled reasons. It would have been her dad's great delight to have baptised her in this cove which I regard as one of the most exquisite baptismal pools in the world.
We prayed it through for the first time on May 31st 2009 which would have been her 23rd birthday and although it will never touch your soul in the same way it touched ours, we hope you will meet with God as you read it and catch a glimpse of the person we loved for 22 years.
Ian and Ros.