Prayer

Today was Grandma K's knee replacement surgery. It was at 9:30 this morning and drs said she came through very well. Now everything is up to how determined she is to go through therapy. Hopefully she'll be up and moving in no time.

I was reading on another blog over the weekend and read something that really resonated with me. She said that her husband interrupted her while she was praying and told her 'not to ask for life to be easier, but to pray that she was stronger' and at first I thought Wow, what a dick... why wouldn't he want their life to be easier after several hardships... But then I thought more about it and he was right. No one said life would be easy. Sometimes it's not even fun but praying for life to get easier without being willing to make changes yourself is just a waste of time.

This got me thinking of several things that I've been praying for.

I have recently been praying for a new job. Well to be honest, as much as I would LOVE to have a new job I haven't been really looking. I haven't submitted any resumes and have only skimmed over a couple websites. How on earth can God bless me with a new job, if I'm not looking too.

I've also been praying for God to give us a financial break. Well again, I'm not really doing anything to help  this. I'm not saving money, I'm not looking for a 2nd job to help out or a new primary job that pays more. I've just been hoping/wishing/praying that we would miraculously "come into some money". I'm not sure if I thought it would start falling from the skies or what, but I now know that I'm the one that needs to make a change.

I've also been praying about how it isn't fair that we cannot conceive. Well I guess on that front, I still thing it's not fair that so many people become pregnant everyday and we do not but maybe if we had some of those other things in order and I was healthier then God would decide that it could be time for us to grow our family.

So now I agree, 'Don't pray for an easier life, pray for strength to make it through the one you have.'