Strength When You’re Parenting on Empty | Your Nightly Prayer

Parenting can feel both sacred and exhausting.

Updated Sep 24, 2025

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As our nightly prayer and devotional remind us, there are seasons when the days stretch long and patience feels thin—when every conversation with a teenager feels like a battle or when younger children test your limits before breakfast. It’s in these moments that Galatians 6:9 speaks directly to our weary hearts: keep sowing, keep showing up, and trust that God is at work in the unseen places. Parenting is like farming: preparing the soil, planting seeds, and tending faithfully even when growth isn’t visible. Every prayer whispered, every correction given in love, every moment of compassion is a seed sown. Over time, God brings a harvest—character shaped, faith taking root, resilience rising, and glimpses of grace breaking through. Even in the hard and unyielding seasons, God reminds us that our labor in love is not in vain. He is the Lord of the harvest, and He is faithful. Tonight’s Scripture: Galatians 6:9 "Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."

Originally published September 24, 2025.

Angie Grant Angie Grant is passionate about helping others become the best versions of themselves—whether in family life, ministry leadership, or in supporting schools and educators. She’s all in! Her greatest joys—besides Jesus and her husband, Stan—are the four who call her “Mom” (three biological and one through the gift of adoption). An even sweeter title? “Lolli” to her five grandkids.

Angie holds a degree in Child and Family Studies and currently serves on the staff at Cloverhill Church, where she and her husband have been leading for over 25 years. She is the Executive Director of Cloverhill Christian Academy, located in Midlothian, Virginia. Angie is a dedicated advocate for foster children and families, and also serves as a Trust-Based Relational Intervention Practitioner, offering support in her community and beyond. In addition to her roles in church and education, Angie contributes her insight and leadership as a board member for Families First and the Chesterfield-Colonial Heights Department of Social Services.

How does she do it all? With purpose and passion—as a coach in family life, ministry, and schools, Angie brings experience, empathy, and a heart for helping others thrive.