I like to pray.
I’m not a fancy prayer (noun: person who prays).
I just kind of talk.
For the most part-
I’ve grown out of asking for ‘things’.
I do a lot of thanking.
I do a lot of processing.
I do a lot of asking questions.
I go over a lot of things I see or hear and don’t understand.
I wonder about things that I wish ‘were’.
And I wonder what about things I should be doing better,
And how I might go about doing that.
I apologize for my misspeaks and missteps of the day.
I do ask for guidance and strength.
And above all,
I do pray for
Those I love.
But to be very honest-
I can’t deny I don’t ever ask for anything.
I am not beyond begging, as a matter of fact, for a grown up snow day.
(For those of you under feet of snow, my apologies. I’m making light as my husband stays home yet again for another school snow day while the rest of the adult world has to go to work. I hope everyone stays safe and warm.)
Nothing wrong with wanting a snow day.
Good. No such luck again. Sigh.
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You deserve a snow day! Call it a mental health day Colleen. ❤
Diana xo
Oh that would be just as lovely! 🙂 No luck today either. Ah well.
Those who work in the schools do get some nice perks, don’t they? But, in between all those days off (and there are many), I’m sure they work hard and make up for it….right? 🙂
It is a nice perk for them. And they absolutely deserve these perks!!!!! (I’m just a tad jealous 😉
I agree with you. I have a friend who works in the school system and he works his tail off.
I know many as well, and I don’t envy them their jobs. Or wish away their perks. 🙂 Or deny my jealousy when I pack off in the cold to go to work again today….. 😉
Tis a prayer I share!
Oh well. It did not come to be.
I share the prayer!!
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I pray like that! I don’t envy all that snow.
I know, it’s horrible what they’ve gotten. We aren’t getting snow like that. We are not preparing for some bitter cold. I pray for the people who have no place to get warm.
Isn’t a prayer just a nice talk with a best Friend? That’s what it’s always been for me Coleen. My fingers keep hitting the wrong keys, so right now I’m praying for patience.
It is a nice talk with a friend Angie, I like that. 🙂
I’m sorry you’re having such a hard time. I know you’re taking a rest now. So I hope when you come back the therapy will have helped and the pain will be gone. Please hang in there. I said my prayer for you. I hope you feel it.
I think I’m feeling all the prayers Colleen. For the first time the pain is easing and I can do the exercises again without wanting to scream. Thank you so much. I temporarily forgot who to depend on.
🙂 Ah Angie, you didn’t forget, you were asking the entire time and sent out requests for reinforcements. 🙂
Thanks Colleen. That makes me feel better. It’s all working now, so the reinforcements were what I needed.
Someone was listening. 🙂
Someone heard, and is helping. It’s all getting better around here.
THAT is the best news. 🙂
I understand that prayer! There were days I was scared out of my mind to drive to work (20+ miles). There was times the road from the highway to the plant and admin offices were closed down because of snow & ice so we got to go to a cafe close by and have breakfast while we waited for the road to get cleared. That was great!
Well that is a nice memory! 🙂 I don’t have far to go to work now. I used to have a long drive, not so much now. There’s some bad weather going on out there. 😦
Do you live in the areas that are getting so much snow?
We are not getting THAT snow. We are in the bitter cold regions. We have a few inches of snow. But the cold is what is putting our kids out of school right now.
Okay, I see. Snow days! Maybe you will get one from work soon. 😀
No such luck. But that’s okay. It just means when we went back AFTER a snow day it would be doubly hectic, right? 🙂
Yes! That’s right and then you would wish you hadn’t had a snow day. 🙂
Ha! Good thing we saved me that trouble Priceless!!! 🙂
Haha!
Ha! I was going to ask why you’d think you need to grow out of asking. Asking isn’t a bad thing.
🙂 That’s true Huck.
😉
No such things as snow days here in L.A!
Good point!
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Snow can be tricky, and I love snow days, personally. 🙂
They are nice. 🙂
The prayer hot-line is open for all requests! I pray for rain!
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I pray you get it too. 🙂
I’m with Debra!
Me too!
Lucky me. I have a snow day any day I want in this frozen winter.
Praying is like meditating, don’t you think? ❤
Yes lucky you!
And yes, I think praying is like meditating. It does relax me and center me. ❤
A.m.e.n. Yes,
I pray the snow will leave “here” and visit “there”. Just for you – I know, very unselfish of me – who is trapped in this winter wonderland. It may be flakey, but there’s “snow-way” we should keep it all to ourselves. grin.
Hahaha! Well done Stacey! We got a wee bit of snow. Not much. But we did get the bitter cold. No snow day for me. But I will do my best to not complain in light of all those who are now wishing they did not have so many snow days!
Amen. 🙂
That’s very cute.
🙂 Thank you!
You are allowed to wish and hope and hit your knees for that “snow day,” MDB Colleen. Yes, you can also go down the hill on a lunch tray when it comes to be!
Ohhhhhhh…..well that would be fun as well. Sadly…..no such luck on either count. Here I go off to work again! 🙂
I love the way you drew this precious position of prayer. I am like you, I talk to God, include a lot of stuff and hope that God has time to listen and help those who need it. It is hard to always believe when sad things happen to good people but I always pray!
I can’t stop. Have no desire to stop. 🙂 It makes me feel better. 🙂
All prayer is, is talking to God – and of coarse listening! Glad your hubby had another snow day – nothing wrong with that. 🙂
Nothing wrong at all. He gets so much done around here I don’t EVER mind having a “house husband”! 🙂
And I like my conversations with God. He never turns a deaf ear. 🙂