I'm still working on this idea about praying for specific results, as in praying for healing, which I wrote about the other day. In church on Sunday someone asked for prayers that a the doctor find the right medicine and procedure for a friend with cancer. On it goes. We all have specific requests, as it should be, because we lead our lives trying to figure out the best answer to everything. So why not ask God to join us in that?
Sometimes when I ask for what I want, I feel that I have let go of my faith, which 'should' be Thy will be done. Then I say to myself, "Oh, what a mess you are making of this. Get out of your head!" On it goes. Well, at least God is present. So why not thank God for that?
And then there is St. Paul's Pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5.17), which suggests many possibilities and freeing me up to keep praying.
Sometimes when I ask for what I want, I feel that I have let go of my faith, which 'should' be Thy will be done. Then I say to myself, "Oh, what a mess you are making of this. Get out of your head!" On it goes. Well, at least God is present. So why not thank God for that?
And then there is St. Paul's Pray without ceasing (1 Thessalonians 5.17), which suggests many possibilities and freeing me up to keep praying.
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