I have been reading a lot the past few months. Primarily, I've been reading about God and prayer. I have read many authors for the first time and am thoroughly enjoying their work. People like Father James Martin, SJ whose book 'A Jesuit Guide to Almost Everything', Stormie Omartian's Pray Big Series on Parenting, Marriage, Husband, Wife, etc. Currently, I'm reading Michael Harold Brown's 'The God of Miracles' and loving it!
The past few months have been like a roller coaster of life - up and down, then up and then down. I have been going through some difficult times emotionally that I wouldn't like to get into here, but suffice it to say that - PRAYER WORKS!
God has been with me through this storm in my life and remained in the same boat, asleep in the back at first and then woke up and asked me clearly, 'Where is your faith? Peace. Be still!'
Prayers have results. But these results come in God's time, not ours. Patience, faith and perseverance are the pillars of getting results from prayers.
Take the storms of your life not as a curse, but as a blessing that jolts you into thinking more about God than the things of the world. For it is only in these times that you begin to see the impermanence of it all worldly things and the permanence of heavenly things. You begin to realize that life and the tests that come with it are meant to teach and prepare you for the spiritual life that will follow this physical one after we transition from this world to the next.
