From where I am Wes, and I suspect where anybody is, is at variance with most, only my kids know I’m a believer. If they believe that. I was on the other side of it at least partly as a student. I found the aggressive approach of the campus “preacher” who picked a corner and shouted for hours, obnoxious. The church I joined as a kid removed my membership for non-pledging and published the names of the removed, in the church bulletin. That indicated it was about money. It took years to learn otherwise, and it wasn’t until I had real trouble that I saw desperate prayer answered. That has changed, everything. Only divine intervention could have pulled me back to safety.
I know there are needs, every day and everywhere. I often wish I could solve those needs. Prayer is, really, the best I have to offer.
Prayers really do get answered. That's about all I know. People ask me sometimes, to prove a point about religious radicalism or something, "What would it take to make you stop believing in God?" Nothing would, because He's proven himself already.
From where I am Wes, and I suspect where anybody is, is at variance with most, only my kids know I’m a believer. If they believe that. I was on the other side of it at least partly as a student. I found the aggressive approach of the campus “preacher” who picked a corner and shouted for hours, obnoxious. The church I joined as a kid removed my membership for non-pledging and published the names of the removed, in the church bulletin. That indicated it was about money. It took years to learn otherwise, and it wasn’t until I had real trouble that I saw desperate prayer answered. That has changed, everything. Only divine intervention could have pulled me back to safety.
I know there are needs, every day and everywhere. I often wish I could solve those needs. Prayer is, really, the best I have to offer.
That doesn’t make me devout, or special, or even saved. It means I work on it.
God provides. Praise God. Amen.
Prayers really do get answered. That's about all I know. People ask me sometimes, to prove a point about religious radicalism or something, "What would it take to make you stop believing in God?" Nothing would, because He's proven himself already.
And sometimes we are thankful for unanswered prayers. Thank you.
I didn’t know the origin of that phrase; thanks!
Turns out the phrase was more than just a movie or a song.
https://waterlandblog.com/2012/09/21/local-b-17-bombardier-recalls-wing-and-a-prayer-mission-on-the-all-american/