Oh yeah, i pray.

I am often amazed how often God tells me to pray for someone.  How often He puts someone on my mind and i just find myself on my knees, praying for a person, a family, a situation.

There are times, when i have prayed, He will tell me to call that person and let them know, let them know HE heard their prayers and is having people pray for them.    Sometimes, He doesn't.   I just pray, put their name on my board and pray.

When i am crocheting, i am praying.   Often, I am making something for someone, and i am praying for that person, but God will sneak in another person and tell me to crochet a line or two for them. 

I had a friend struggling and i told her i would pray for her, she gave me the oddest look and said "sure, if that is what makes you happy."  and totally blew my prayers off.  A few weeks later she called me, asking more about my prayers, because miraculous things were happening in her life.

I have a friend who blamed me for praying hard enough to give her twins.  :)

When i created my blog Made With Prayer, it wasn't because i make things with prayers - it was because i am made with prayer. 

The only reason i am alive is because of prayer.  I didn't succeed in killing myself, i didn't die in a few car accidents, and i survived the birth of my youngest child.  Each time, i learned people were praying for me.   With the birth of Ben, i knew an entire congregation was either at home or at the church, praying for my life.  I learned in my 30's that people were praying for me and my brother as we dealt with alcoholism and drug addiction with our parents.  Every time i thought i was at the end, God lifted me back up, shook me off and got me going again.

So now, when people ask me to pray for them, i take my job very seriously.  

You ask, i pray.  

I write your request in a book, on a board, on a mirror.  I pray when i have a break at work, when i have a few minutes to myself, when i cook.

I have found that prayer that relieves stress and makes me a happier person.    I stopped biting my nails, i stopped hating myself and blaming myself for everything that goes wrong.

So, if you need someone to pray for you....God might have already told me to start praying, but you are welcome to let me know you need a little lift from above.

I will gladly pray for you.

I love you.