Kids Prayers

So I am not usually a big fan of forwards, I'll read them and delete them without thinking twice. However, when I got this one, I couldn't help but smile at alot of the things these kids are praying about. It is pretty cute. So I figured I'd share it with you, I really like 6,7,9,10, 11, 18, and 21. Which ones do you think are best?

Kids’ Prayers

1. Dear God,
Please put another holiday between Christmas and Easter.
There is nothing good in there now.
Amanda

2. Dear God,
Thank you for the baby brother, but what I asked for was a puppy.
I never asked for anything before.
You can look it up.
Joyce

3. Dear Mr. God,
I wish you would not make it so easy for people to come apart.
I had to have 3 stitches and a shot.
Janet

4. God,
I read the bible.
What does beget mean?
Nobody will tell me.
Love, Alison

5. Dear God,
How did you know you were God?
Who told you?
Charlene

6. Dear God,
Is it true my father won't get in Heaven if he uses his golfwords in the house?
Anita

7. Dear God,
I bet it's very hard for you to love all of everybody in the whole world.
There are only 4 people in our family and I can never do it.
Nancy

8. Dear God,
I like the story about Noah the best of all of them.
You really made up some good ones.
I like walking on water, too.
Glenn

9. Dear God,
My Grandpa says you were around when he was a little boy.
How far back do you go?
Love, Dennis

10. Dear God,
Do you draw the lines around the countries?
If you don't, who does?
Nathan

11. Dear God,
Did you mean for giraffes to look like that
Or was it an accident?
Norma

12. Dear God,
In Bible times, did they really talk that fancy?
Jennifer

13. Dear God,
How come you did all those miracles in the old days and don't doany now?
Billy

14. Dear God,
Please send Dennis Clark to a different summer camp this year.
Peter

15. Dear God,
Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each other so much if they each had their own rooms.
It works out OK with me and my brother.
Larry

16. Dear God,
I keep waiting for spring, but it never did come yet.
What's up? Don't forget.
Mark

17. Dear God,
My brother told me about how you were born,
but it just doesn't sound right.
What do you say?
Marsha

18. Dear God,
If you watch in church on Sunday,
I will show you my new shoes.
Barbara

19. Dear God,
Is Reverend Coe a friend of yours,
Or do you just know him through the business?
Donny

20. Dear God,
I do not think anybody could be a better God than you.
Well, I just want you to know that.
I am not just saying that because you are already God.
Charles

21. Dear God,
It is great the way you always get the stars in the right place.
Why can't you do that with the moon?
Jeff

22. Dear God,
I am doing the best I can.
Really !!!!
Frank

23. Dear God,I didn't think orange went with purple
Until I saw the sunset you made on Tuesday night.
That was really cool.
Thomas

Mind Boggling

It boggles my mind sometimes, how the smallest of things can mean the biggest results.
Huh?
It makes sense. I swear it does. Only problem is how do you explain it. Not sure I can completely
So its Sunday evening( not right now, but my story happened on Sunday), and I am off to Millwoods as usual. I love that church, really honestly love it. The worship is so personal and the message applicable. Great place to be and if for whatever reason I miss the service there, I notice it during my week. Anyways, back on track... So Mike came too this week and pretty quick we run into my friend Laura and her bf Steve. We go sit, and then it happened.
Turns out it wasn't a regular service. They were looking for volunteers. Two groups of people- one 6 women, and one a mix of 8-10 people- to go out and do a project. When? RIGHT THEN AND THERE!
The challenge was simple. We are here, we do church. But, do we actually do things that show we are church? Ok, so we go to church on Sundays. Pray, maybe read our bibles and do devotions. Sing along to a worship CD and drive around with our fish on the back of our car, a cross around our necks. But when the oppertunity presented itself, would we step up.
The second group was headed to the PCC to do some general cleaning stuff. But the first group, wow, did that get my attention.
They were looking for 6 women to go to a Rehab center for women. Laura and I jumped at the chance and away we went. (For the record, while the two groups left the property for service projects, the rest of everyone helped make sandwhiches and organize clothes for the Bissel Center and some 2nd hand clothing place- so it was definitely a huge night for volunteers!)
I wont say alot about it. I really am not sure if I have the words to explain it all. Ihad expected to do church, that is what they told us was going to happen. And while we definitely did church, it wasn't in the conventional- sing some songs, listen to someone talk, pray, and leave. No. It wasn't that at all. We just hung out with the women. Sat down and talked with them, listened to their stories, if they were willing to share, and then before we left sat down in small groups of 2-3 and prayed.
It was unbelievable! Ok, to be honest, I don't know many people who have suffered from addictions, in that sense I have led a rather sheltered life, but I have always assumed it was something that wasn't really talked about, that even when people were recovering, it wasn't something to discuss with people- especially perfect strangers!
Was I ever wrong.
My friend and I ended up talking to this woman. She shared her story with us. And the best part of it all? She is beating it. She is winning the battle against her addiction and the devil. She became a Christian after moving into this Rehab(it is a Christian run organization) and was baptized along with 5 other women in June. As we sat listening to her, and later praying for her, I couldn't help but realize that we had done church after all.
It wasn't just her, but with all of the women. It absolutely shook my world the way that they opened up and loved us right from the get go. They weren't just being friendly, they truly loved that we were there and truly loved having the chance to spend time with us. To share their stories, their conquests, because lets be real here- every minute of every day that they stay clean- from drugs, alcohol, or sex- is a minute more that they are conquering their 'diesease'.
By the time we left, it had been not even 90 mins. And already I knew that I was never going to forget that night. We did church that night. Not in the conventional sense. But we sat, we fellowshiped, we loved and were loved by God's creation, we appreciate His might in how He can overpower these dibilletating problems. And we prayed- for women that we didn't really know. Lifting them up, exposing them and their needs to our Father above with full confidence that He loves them with all that He has.
Because He does. He loves all of us that way. It got me thinking on the way home. You know when you drive by a field, or a park, or a forest, or a beach. Do you ever think to yourself- wow thats alot of grain/grass/trees/sand/water. Whatever of the choices. It registered for me then, really really hit home, that if God knows and loves every single blade/leaf/grain/drop of His creation, then you can bet everything you have on the fact that He knows and loves you. Mind Boggling.
Anyways, it was pretty awesome to say the least. Definitely glad I felt a need to join in on that one. And really want to encourage people, if you have the chance to do something, help out in some way- DO IT! I knows its cliche to make it seem so simple, but you probably aren't as underqualified as you think. What could I offer women who suffered addictions to things that I can't even imagine? Time. Love. An ear. A prayer. A friend.

I've been thinking about this all week. And then tonight I found a verse that really suited so I figured that was the last straw- time to type! Here is the verse
James 1:12
Blessed is the man who perservers under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him.

Mind Boggling...