2 posts from July 2008

Do you ever wonder why the most random things will begin huge changes in the way you see things? I believe that everything happens for a reason, everything from what I watch on TV to what happened at work. It all has lessons built within. Ready to teach me whatever I am meant to learn for the day. As my life progresses the lesson meanings change to fit what is happening now, and new lessons emerge.

Today I began to look at my life with God and my life in general. We walk through life praying that by some miracle your house will clean itself up. That the pounds would just drop off in your sleep one night, no dieting or exercising required. That the knowledge you need would magically appear in your brain like some scene from The Matrix. Your cat would stop scattering your things around the house in boredom. Your bills won’t be too high. Please let me win the lottery! I meant the big one…

In reality perhaps he IS answering our prayers, by not answering them at all… If God cleans your house up for you how will you learn to clean it yourself? He’s not going to do it every time, maybe you have a maid, but that maid won’t always be there.

So the pounds just drop off in your sleep. You did nothing to get there! How do you keep something off if you didn’t fight to get there in the first place? Maintaining…I’m told, can be just as hard as loosing.

Okay so the whole knowledge thing would be really cool too. I often find myself begging for a photographic memory. I can do the reading, I just want to remember it. Shoot I would love to even remember some of it. My memory is so Swiss cheesed I can write my own book and be unable to tell you anything about it a week later. So your given the ability to look at the cover of a book and have it all downloaded into your brain. Where was the work in that? The satisfaction of learning? Still wish I had it though…

Your animal is destroying your home out of boredom…like that’s ever going to stop…give it up! Stopping it would require messing with your animals’ personality! Let’s face it, the only reason you still have your animal is because you love them and there personality.

Your bills are too high, you can effect the outcome to this one yourself. Use less electricity, buy energy saving products, if they raise the rate, switch companies! Renting movies throwing you off balance financially, rent less, or stop until you can figure out what else you can cut. Go down a package on your cable channels etc…

All easier said then done.

I think that we have to power to grant a lot of our own prayers, think about it. And what we can’t make happen ourselves? Then that’s where God steps in.  

…are unanswered prayers.