Jenny Marrs Shares Prayer for Sons as They Get Ready for High School: ‘Be a Light’
By Movieguide® Contributor
As HGTV star Jenny Marrs’ oldest sons prepare for high school, she shares a letter she wrote after their kindergarten graduation, praying over the next twelve years of their schooling.
“Yesterday, I registered my first babies for high school and my last baby for kindergarten 😭,” Marrs wrote. “In my nostalgic state, I found a letter I had written to my way-too-soon-to-be-high schoolers the day after they graduated kindergarten. The words still ring true and make my momma heart want to cling to every single moment the next four and a half years have in store. I know they’ll fly by in a blink.”
Marrs and her husband Dave share Nathan, Ben, Sylvie, Charlotte and Luke.
Marrs shared a fragment of the letter in which she encouraged herself to savor the time with her boys while they were still little and prayed that they grow to become Godly men.
“‘So let them be little, cause they’re only that way for a while. Give them hope, give them praise, give them love, every day,’” she wrote, quoting the song “Let Them Be Little,” which was played at the graduation. “‘Let em cry, let em giggle, let them sleep in the middle. Oh, just let them be little.’”
“This season is so brief. You are [on] the brink of more and more independence,” she said. “You’ll continue to step out into the world and find your place.”
“I want you to be so full of confidence and assurance of your worth that you never doubt how deeply loved and treasured you are,” Marrs continued. “I want you to be a light in this world – a light shining others toward the tended, gentle and mighty God who created you so intricately.”
“I want you to trust that you are here at this time, in this place, a part of this generation for a very important purpose…” she added, saying, “My prayer for the next twelve years is for this to be a time where you can learn and stretch and grow and feel safe enough to make mistakes. I want you to know you have a safety net behind you; encouraging you, loving you, helping you back up when you get knocked down.”
Marrs previously shared that her twins came after a difficult fertility journey.
“We struggled for years with infertility. In 2008, we jumped on a roller coaster when we started the process to adopt — doors slammed shut left and right,” Marrs said. “After another failed match, we decided to make one last-ditch effort with fertility treatments and finally became pregnant with twin boys in the fall of 2009. They were born prematurely and spent a month in the NICU but are now perfectly healthy and strong. The first of our four miracles.”
“Her adoption had been finalized. She had her U.S. passport. And then the country shut down adopted kids leaving, so she couldn’t get her exit permit,” Marrs told PEOPLE.
Movieguide® previously reported on Marrs:
FIXER TO FABULOUS star Jenny Marrs calls her twins’ birth “a story only God could write.”
“When I was twenty-nine weeks pregnant with the twins, I unexpectedly went into pre-term labor and, after twelve hours of medical intervention to prevent a premature delivery, I was airlifted to Little Rock because our local hospital’s NICU wasn’t equipped to care for twenty-nine-week-old preemies at the time,” Jenny wrote in a recent Instagram post.
She explained that she and her husband, Dave, were “given every worst-case scenario” and told that the twins would be born in the next 24 hours.
“We absorbed their words in silence,” Jenny said. “We huddled together on the hospital bed and prayed and cried and begged God for another hour for the boys to grow in utero. And, then, when one hour passed, we exhaled briefly and started praying for another hour. Every single hour that passed was a small miracle.”
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