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October 20th, 2008

Answered Un-Prayers

Posted At: 12:17am by Sandra Ostapowich

I can handle a lot of stress and am an expert multi-tasker.  And I have a freaky memory in that I can juggle a lot of detailed information inside my head.  But when I finally do get stressed out, it's not pretty at all.  You will probably never encounter someone as negative and pessimistic as I can get.  I know the future, I know everything, and it is only bad.
But somehow, probably because I'm baptized and stuff, surprising things happen in the midst of it.  Just when I'm at the end of my rope, barely remaining sane, I get a completely random call from someone who has never called me.  Just to tell me they're thinking of me and are praying for me and thought I could use a little encouragement.  Or I get an email out of the blue from someone I haven't talked to in months...asking if I need help with something (and I do, and had no idea until that moment just how I was going to delegate some of the load).

The Lord is cool like that.  Surprising us with just the right gifts at just the right time, when we didn't even realize we had been asking for them and had even given up our own hope that anything could possibly even improve.  And then BAM.  Forced to be hopeful again.  (See?  I told you I could be negative!)

"Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words."
(Romans 8:26)

Edited on: October 20th, 2008 12:47 am
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