There can be miracles, if you believe. Though hope is frail, it’s hard to kill. Who knows what miracles, you can achieve ? When you believe…somehow you will…you will when you believe.
I often find comfort in music. Music was a major part of my life for many years, as was prayer. I was taught from the time I was a small child to believe in the power of prayer. Miracles could be held in our hands. They were not far off if we only had enough faith to believe. My perspective on prayer has changed a lot, especially over the past three or four years. So much has changed during that time. I have prayed and believed with every fiber of my being…only to have my prayers go unanswered and my hopes dashed.
Hope deferred makes the heart sick.
Proverbs 13:12
My hopes have been deferred for so long now, that I don’t know if I’ll ever again find a place of hope. I find myself wishing that prayer really could make a difference. It is just so hard to believe when you’ve been through as much pain as we have. Then I look at people like the ones in Haiti. I can’t even bear to watch the news, because I know that there is nothing I can do for them.
I hear religious leaders encouraging their flocks to pray. But why would prayer make a difference? If it made no difference in my problems, which really don’t even compare, then why would prayer make the literal difference between life and death for these poor people. So instead I just turn my head the other way. I turn my thoughts in a different direction. I try and make myself forget about the hurt around me, because there is no answer.
How cliche it is for folk to say “Prayer Changes Things”. How I wish it were true, but I just don’t see it. Truth be told, I’ve never seen it.
How I wish I could be proven wrong on this one.
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