Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihlpa.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!amd!pesnta!greipa!decwrl!decvax!bellcore!petrus!magic!nvc!sabre!zeta!epsilon!gamma!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihlpa!snappy From: snappy@ihlpa.UUCP (m. schulpiet) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Re: It's fun watching God answer prayers --- Message-ID: <862@ihlpa.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 09:32:56 EST Article-I.D.: ihlpa.862 Posted: Wed Nov 6 09:32:56 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 16:36:07 EST References: <2402@cal-asd.fluke.UUCP> <395@pyuxn.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 51 > > Mike Andrews gives an example of God answering prayers. I would > like to offer my own. > > A very close friend of mine's parents just went through a traumatic > divorce. He prayed that both of them would continue their lives hereafter in > a peaceful way, and find happiness in their separation. (He had been praying > for them not to separate and then not to divorce for some time previous to > this.) He also prayed that additional tragedy not befall their family. > What has followed has been a bitter custody fight for the one child still > living with his parents, severe problems with his sister's pregnancy, and his > younger brother was in a severe accident owing to drinking while driving, and > must (at the order of a judge) quit school in order to enter an alcohol > rehabilitation program. (He HAD been a model student for many years.) > > This is how God answers prayers. > > Be well, > -- > Paul Zimmerman - AT&T Bell Laboratories > pyuxn!pez *Paul, God does not answer all prayers with a big loud YES..sometimes the answer is "no" and sometimes going through many trying times in this life, one becomes aware that our lives are all planned by the Almighty God. Perchance after all the tradgedies that have befallen your friend's family, the mother and father will realize how "petty" their differences were that caused the divorce...and unite again to "share" their grief and see the whole "mess" through together. I am not saying this is what will happen, but your friend should try and leave his worry at the foot of the cross... leave it in the Hands of God, in other words. Worrying can sap up the energies of any human being...it is a waste. All the thinking about it will not make the outcome any different than what God has planned. Paul, I have a funny feeling that you will someday become a very pro-God and will come to love him for all the good things that he has given us in this life. We cannot appreciate the smooth, even valleys in this life if we haven't had to climb the rough mountains. God bless you...I know there must be many people on the net praying for you to OPEN your eyes and heart!!! Marge at Bell Labs .