Sunday, July 18, 2021

Dear God,

Sometimes we pray for strangers we do not even know.  Someone asks us to pray and we do.  Without them even knowing it strangers become friends, loved ones during prayer.

Laurie, Brandon, Grant, Cedric, Tracey and Abby are all loved ones to me now.  I have prayed daily for Abby for years although I have never met her.  Laurie and Brandon appeared on a Facebook page a couple years ago.  As a new mother she is fighting cancer.  Grant spent years in prison for a murder he did not commit.  He was freed but cannot find work because no one wants to hire an ex-con.  Cedric and Tracy were a Christmas family my daughter and I took on.  The father nearly died with Covid.  I prayed then and just kept on praying.

I pray, Lord, because you brought each of these to me.  I am certainly no one special but I am honored you gave them to me in prayer.  As I pray I feel not only their presence but also yours.

I am grateful

for the gift

of love

through prayer.

Thank you

for connecting us together,

Gracious and Merciful God.

How blessed

we are

to be 

your children,

all of us.

Love, Andrea