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Quote for the Day:
Is prayer your steering wheel
or your spare tire?
Corrie Ten Boom
Quote from the book, "101 Inspirational Stories of the Power of Prayer"
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Don't you just love that quote above? I think I should spend the whole day just thinking about that. Is prayer taking you places or only getting you out of places? Hmmm. Very fun.
So, moving on with this subject - I am on the second chapter of "Ten Prayers God Always Says Yes To," by Anthony DeStefano. They don't tell you on the back cover of the book.. that this is a SCARY book. It's like, "Oh no, just what I thought! Those ten answers are like "No way am I going to pray those. Are you kidding. How do I get off of this bus?"
The first chapter was okay. It was about asking God to show you his presence. Not with a lightening bolt or a sledge hammer but just opening your eyes to see God's presence. Good chapter. I liked it. I could handle it.
So we moved on to chapter two. It is called, "Why Should I Get Involved?" Hmmm? That should make one a bit nervous - and I was a bit.. but not serious. I started reading. My blood pressure started to rise. I started wrinkling up my forehead and sort of squirmed a bit in my chair. I thought about closing the book and pretending I had never started the chapter but I had this feeling that God was watching me. I was being put on the line.....
Truthfully, I haven't finished the chapter yet. I mean its been a busy day! I've had a lot of things to do. You know. Stuff. Lots of stuff to do. I may read a few more paragraphs. Because, well you have to kind a go slow into this. You don't want to start climbing up the mountain and realize you should of brought along oxygen.
Okay, so look this is what the chapter is about. It's about asking God to "Let you help someone in need."
That's it. Just a few simple words. Help someone in need. You can do that, can't you? What's so scary about that, huh?
Well, I will tell you what is scary about that. We're talking about invading my Comfort Zone! What if helping someone in need - means getting out of my Easy Chair? It's like - can't we just read about this? Can we pray about this?
I knew God was watching me on this one. I mean I could practically feel him laughing as I read those words and my eyes started to bulge out. I knew He really wanted me to pray that way. So I sort of did. It was something like this.
"God, look, you know I am a wimp. I would really like to help someone in need. But I'm like really afraid of what it might cost me. I'm like feeling let's don't go into this too deep, Okay? I will go ahead and pray this... but can we be a little easy here? How about just someone in a "little" need to start off with?
I prayed that this morning. The day went along pretty well. No earthquake. No Flood. No Lightening bolt. Just a normal day. I'm a little nervous about tomorrow.. but I think we will make it okay. I may even get enough nerve to pray that prayer again. Not sure, will keep you posted.
Love and Prayers,
Sr. Patricia
P.S. I know I got the link wrong on the Presales page yesterday. I know that a few of you who tried it out - ended up on a site by Walt Disney called "101 Dalmatians." Because "their" link is 101.com not 101prayer.com - Just a little bit of quick typing there. If you didn't figure it out.. here is the real link. 101prayer.com.
And - last night I taped my radio program, "Faith, Hope and Action." And I sort of cheated. I didn't have a guest. I just had myself and I talked about the book. I read Jerry Usher's Foreword and Bishop William Skystad's Introduction and shared a few stories. If you have tons of time.. like 27 minutes and 30 seconds - you can take a listen. Sr. Patricia - Faith, Hope and Action
Blessings of Peace and All Good,
Sister Patricia
Sr Patricia
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