A Prayer for a Stranger

Psalm 22:24
For he has not despised or disdainedthe suffering of the afflicted one;he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.




I am sad today. My heart is hurting.... An unspoken prayer request goes out to you, my unknown reader, if you come across this page, and if you are willing to spare a couple of minutes for the power of prayer, please pray for a stranger. You never know when it will come back to you.
I prayed for an unknown crossing guard. Those ladies and gentlemen deserve our respect. They are volunteers, i. e. no one pays them for what they do. Not a dime. They do not ever expect anything back, yet - every morning from 6:30 till 9:30, you will see them stand at the intersections in front of the schools, waiting for the students, safely walking them to the other side. I was moved with this man's compassion and caring heart for the middle school students as he was walking across a very, very busy intersection. He takes the leap of faith stepping into the busy morning traffic, hoping the drivers will honor his request. The sign is up and the cars freeze...only for a moment. He walks fast, though you can count several Xs on his back...he is determined, he is focused. He does the job.
I prayed for him today. I do not know his name, I just know the face. A face of an unknown ordinary hero. Today I saw Jesus in him, and I said my prayer.
So please pray for me or any unknown stranger that crosses your life, whether you happen just to glance at him/her....or whether it is just a face you see everyday...you never know when that prayer will come back to you transformed into your blessing.

God is my perfect GPS

As hard as it gets I try to walk again...fighting the pain and the decision I think was a right thing to do...? I still don't have a clear answer to that. Today is day 3 and it already feels like eternity. It feels like hell itself not being able to hear from my best friend...how do I do this? When we talked I did not need to blog, because all of my thoughts and prayers were directed to my friend. It was a comfort. I knew all my prayers requests were being prayed for. How do I do this now, not having my friend, my soulmate in my life? I direct my eyes up, I pray to Jesus for His ultimate comfort, and for reassurance that I did the right thing. Or maybe for the sign that I should go back? I am so uncertain of this...but this is what I chose to do. I need not to make any decisions in my life without God in it. I do not want to make any mistakes. I know I need God's blessings in everything I do. I need the power of Holy Spirit. I failed many times trying to do things on my own in my life, threfore, I SURRENDER! Now...Lord please take the wheel. Stear my boat. I can set the sails, I know I can...but please don't let me navigate. I need you to do that...and I am here praying for this...God is my perfect GPS!!! Lord please comfort me...I miss my friend...and it hurts so much!

The inside opposites

Hi blog, I am here again...having a date with my inner "me". Taking to myself, and even answering myself. Only tonight is different. There are unspoken prayer requests in my heart, and I am dealing with immense pain. This pain has completely taken over my entire existence, and I am left in darkness, doubts, and solitude. I am giving God all the broken pieces of my totally drained heart. I am begging for healing. I am praying for erasing my memories. I am asking for comfort. YET, I am also living in hopes, having great faith, and thinking that impossible will become possible one day. How do we absorb pain and hold on to hope? How can two scenarios be happening in my heart at the same time? I am dying inside and I am getting up again to live. I wanna scream "I love you" and then I wanna just be silent...I wanna run to you and then I stop...How do I live when I want to die? Where does the pain end and love starts? Where does the love end and pain starts? I am on the border line. I cannot move. I am a tightrope walker. Stunned. I do not want to walk in fear of losing balance and falling. I freeze. Does that make any sense? How do we deal with the inside opposites...? When we are almost ready to make a move and yet something is holding us back? How do we live on after leaving someone when there is nothing to live for? Maybe we should not have ever left?
Someone once said: "Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night.  I miss you like hell." 
Maybe this is what is wrong...?

Deciding Questionable Things for Christians

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