Prayers
0 comments | Posted by David Reay on 03 May 2009 in Guest Section ::
Three American Indians were talking of their prayers. The Navajo Indian said that they prayed for healing, and about half those prayed for got healed. The Hopi Indian remarked that their prayers for rain were more successful: three quarters of the time their prayers were answered with rain. Which prompted the Apache Indian to top it all off by telling the others that the Apache prayer for sunrise was always answered.
We all struggle with prayers which don’t seem to get answered by the way we figured they would. Prayer is not some coin-in-the-slot method of getting what we want from God. It is not a form of religious magic. We pray not simply in order to get things, but to develop and deepen our relationship with the God who loves us. The same God who can only ever give us good things even if we don’t always understand the shape and the timing of that goodness.
Our prayers are always heard and always answered. But the answers aren’t always what we expect. It is at such times that we remember that faith is trusting that God knows what he is doing, not our knowing what he is doing.
Blessings
David Reay
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