I took this five minutes after I said to my children, “I wish a cardinal would come to the feeder.” (we hadn’t seen one all winter)
It was such a vivid reminder of what prayer is.
It’s about Father-God hearing our honest hearts, and isn’t it true that so often what we think are “not prayers” really ARE prayers because HE KNOWS and understands us better than we know ourselves.
And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words……..Romans 8:26
When I said that I wished a cardinal would come I didn’t realize at the time that what I was doing was praying a very basic and child-like prayer to a personal God who cares about everything big and small.
This is why I do not worry about the eloquence or religiousness of my prayer life. I am His, so I cannot help but pray on purpose and quite unaware at times, too.
Maybe everything we say and think and feel is a prayer and the answers are all around us.
“To the poet,
to the philosopher,
to the saint,
all things are friendly and sacred,
all events profitable,
all days holy,
all men divine.”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dear Jacob turned 21 on the 31st of December. Like he does every year, he once again invited a group of his nearest and dearest for an all day and all night gathering here at home. They played lots of games, visited, talked, ate good food, had a secret santa gift exchange, and so on.
Jacob and Brittnee
Ethan and his girlfriend Tessa.
Michael after saying something sexist just to get a rise out of us ladies.
He is lucky he wasn’t told to leave and never come back.
