GOD, HELP ME
WITH THIS ONE
God, help me with this one.
Are the people who write
about this right - that prayer
can change people’s minds?
A little old lady is sitting there
in her afgan covered chair
and she’s praying that her
children’s children get their
kids baptized - like right now.
Is she hoping You send a
whisper suggestion to them:
“Hey parent, don’t you realize
that people need faith
- and -
a reliance of Me when it comes
to dealing with the big stuff:
death, a shaky marriage,
their kids on drugs, or a
dozen other big things?”
If someone prays for courage
today - when facing a classroom
filled with kids who are being
bullied by a handful of kids in
their class and they are not
getting any help from downstairs -
will praying give them some courage?
What about free will? What about
serendipity? What
about time?
Does time force everyone to their
knees or to their worry beads?
© Andy Costello, Reflections 2017
Painting on top: Old Woman Praying.
Paintings below have artists name or title of the painting underneath the painting.
Old Woman at Prayer, Nogari Giuseppe, 1763
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Old Woman with a Rosary, Paul Cezanne
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Old Woman Praying, Matthias Stom
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Old Woman Praying with a Prayer Book
by Hans Barttenbach, 1908
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