“Answering Unanswered Prayers”
Did you ever really pray for something you wanted? I mean, really fervently, desperately, pray hard for something that was vitally important to you?
If you did, and I think we all pray this way at moments of urgency, you violated an anonymous piece of wisdom:
“Be careful what you pray for, because you just might get it.”
I have not been able to determine who said that. But I know clearly what he meant. In my own life, I have had more than one occasion to look back at answered prayers, which achieved what turned out to be very trivial objectives. And I have certainly been disappointed in prayer, only to learn that in the long run, I was much better off without the benefits of whatever I prayed for so earnestly.
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