Prayers
I was thinking today about the greatness God gives to people. For instance there is this baby, Stellan, who some may or may not know about. He has/had SVT which is basically a rapid heart beat. He went downhill fast at the beginning of this week. Today (or tomorrow) he's going home basically cured. The doctors say he's fine, I think though it's still a wait and see but for now he's totally cured of this problem. He's a year old and has been having this problem since before he was born, but finally it's done. He comes from a very religious family and I think they'd attribute a lot of it to prayers but all of it to God in general. Stellan's mother doesn't seem to be the type to think it was up in the air, that God was waiting for tons of prayers to cure Stellan. She wrote a post about this topic I think this week or last about it, and I think she's more of the belief that God had this planned already and that prayers were important but in the end whatever God's plan was, was what was going to happen, prayers or not.
I've always believed that Prayer was more of you talking with God. Sure you can ask for things, but I too am of the belief that God already has much of life laid out for you, and your prayers are only "answered" when you're following the path He's laid for you. For instance people say that God hasn't answered their prayers, we could say that God hasn't answered my prayers about Kaylee no longer being sick. But He technically has answered own prayers, sadly it's not how we want it, right? But who are we to think we know better than God? If He says that Kaylee has to continue to have this condition, then He knows what He's doing and we should trust that.
Now I think God totally understands why we struggle with that in general. Why do some people get the cure and so forth, while other's don't? Who knows. Maybe our children are the ones that bring the cure? Maybe that's why they have to stay with it.
So in the end I guess what we need to do is try our best to not be angry and feel sorry for ourselves and our children and be thankful for what we do have. It's hard sometimes because obviously I believe it would be easier if Kaylee wasn't sick but who knows, maybe that's not the case, maybe life would be harder if she was healthy?
On a side note this was brought up because Christian Scientists believe that prayer heals. I believe God heals and does it whether we pray or not and I don't for the life of me believe Christian Scientists experience more miracles than others. What bothers me about CS is that they believe that God bestows this gift on their denomination because of how they practice and frankly I don't see God as that selective. Actually that sort of thinking to me goes completely against what I see as God's love. I just don't think of Him treating one set special over the others who believe in Him. Hell I think God loves everyone so much, and equally, that he bestows His gifts on even people who refused to believe in Him.
Anyhow that's my religious message of the day. I don't typically go all religious because frankly religion typically is something that I like to keep to myself.
And to the Catholic Church in DC, try keeping Jesus' message a bit better. Their actions are far from showing God's love to people.
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