Our life is full of experiences, or as I call them “adventures.” Some adventures are good, some are bad, some are scary, and some are awesome. And then between all these adventures, God gives us just an ordinary or mundane day at times to remind us that every day is not an adventurous one.
Once I started seeing these experiences as adventures, my life took on new ways of looking at things and consequences. No matter how small or big an adventure is, everything that we go through is a learning experience.
On any given day, I begin my day with prayer and ask God to bless my day and all that I am to do along my daily path. Then I let the day unfold as God wills.
Recently, I had an adventure that was not pleasant and quite scary. I had an outpatient heart procedure and the second day after it, I experienced some complications with my heart.
During an ambulance ride to the ER which I have never experienced before, God taught me some great wisdom as he does with each adventure. There is always something to learn if our hearts are open. During the ride, I was highly anxious and very distracted. I tried to pray, but my senses were consumed with so much going on at the time. I would say the words, but they were not from my heart, and my focus was not on God.
Later, when things were settled and I was back home, I understood that although I was too distracted and stressed to focus on my prayer at that time, God had it covered. My family was praying for me, and they picked up the slack and filled in the gaps with their prayers.
God knows each of us as His own child. He alone knows what we need even when we do not. He covered it for me with the love of those who know me and know Him.
I remember many years ago, a family I knew had a son who at 16 was dying of cancer. On a regular basis, I would go to the hospital and pray for him with his parents.
When he died a few weeks later, I went to his home that day and prayed with his parents. I remember his mother saying her heart was broken, and it hurt so much that she could not even pray. I told her we were praying for her and her family and to just rest in God’s arms.
God uses His prayer warriors in ways much more powerful than we realize. Not only do we pray for each other, but all that we go through encourages other people to pray for us. As they pray, their hearts connect to Jesus, and they become closer to Him while the graces of those prayers reach us.
Sometimes when we are so caught up with what is going on with our life and distracting us so much so that we are not leaning on Him as we should, He gets his prayer warriors to pick up the slack and to pray for us.
One day when our path on life is complete and we enter into God’s Kingdom, perhaps we will see all those we prayed for at the times in their life when they could not pray; when they needed Jesus to carry their burdens, and to be held in His arms. May we always pray for each other, and through the adventures in our day, may God direct us to those who need our prayers.
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