09-14-2014, 12:51 PM
I do pray and have asked for prayer at times, mostly for my grandson. It certainly doesn't always work though, and that has to be allowed for or you can get depressed.
Example: my friends' 3 year old developed aggressive leukemia and needed a bone marrow transplant, and a mutual friend into healing organized a light a candle and prayer circle that was across the county and thousands of people, including me, and sending photos of our candles for the boy. Then later we all did a sunrise.
His transplant did not take, even though he was at the absolute best facility at UCSF, and his parents had not even accepted the idea that the prayers might not be granted because he was such an amazing kid and surely deserved to survive the test of leukemia. He died, and they would have been devastated no matter what, but all the hope and positive thinking that did not manifest into any better outcome was depressing even to me who was not in inner circle.
If you think about it, if praying could change everything then we would all get what we want all the time. Doesn't stop me from praying, and saying thank you when I get that thing I prayed for.
Kathy
Example: my friends' 3 year old developed aggressive leukemia and needed a bone marrow transplant, and a mutual friend into healing organized a light a candle and prayer circle that was across the county and thousands of people, including me, and sending photos of our candles for the boy. Then later we all did a sunrise.
His transplant did not take, even though he was at the absolute best facility at UCSF, and his parents had not even accepted the idea that the prayers might not be granted because he was such an amazing kid and surely deserved to survive the test of leukemia. He died, and they would have been devastated no matter what, but all the hope and positive thinking that did not manifest into any better outcome was depressing even to me who was not in inner circle.
If you think about it, if praying could change everything then we would all get what we want all the time. Doesn't stop me from praying, and saying thank you when I get that thing I prayed for.
Kathy