Starts with Value of Life

[S] Matthew 14:8 --
8 Having been prompted by her mother, she *said, "Give me here on a platter the head of John the Baptist."

[O] This is the daughter of Herodias who by the wish of her mother requested another man's head (life) without a blink of an eye.  What a scary scene this is, and displays the picture of how critical the environment where a child grow up in.  There can be many factors but that child will either grow up valuing the life God gave starting with his/her own, or will not put any value on the life God provided.  This scene more and more depicts the situation of our world today where we are so far removed from the value of understanding the life God gave in all of us because we're so distracted by all the busy-nesses of this world.

[A] Keep teaching to my children the importance of God's life in all of us as well as in others.  And this is why we must "go" and teach as many people about the value of His life given through Jesus Christ out of His abundant love for us.

[P] Dear Father, please continue to ingrain the value of life in my children as that's where everything begins.  Without that starting point, everything we build is meaningless and in fact can be very dangerous.  Please purify my family members' hearts at all times.  In Jesus' name.  Amen.