Sometimes I Forget....

...to pray for things.



I think I have all my ducks in a row....lined up on a cute little shelf in my mind and then when something happens unexpectedly,like a duck falling off my shelf, I think to myself...."hmmmm, I forgot to pray for that" and then I pick that duck off the dusty floor and wipe it off and replace it right back where it belongs. There you go little duck.


Random I know. Ducks....thoughts.

But not really.

Unless it's smacking me in the face, like when one of my children is sick, I sometimes forget to pray for things. Like, I pray, but usually it's for someone that is hurting, or for health, or as things come up, or a wide covering prayer, not too specific. I am still trying to understand the way He provides because there are so many blessings that come into our life.



And some other things that are really frivolous but definitely not un-noticed by me. I wonder, if these prayers said quietly in my heart but not out loud are still answered, what could happen if I am actually on my knees?

Not that it works that way, like a God-vending machine. Prayers go in and and I get what I want. Not at all.

But I know He hears me anyway.

How often I feel like maybe I have everything I really need, so anything extra would be... asking for too much? Who am I to ask for anything? My God, I lie next to my child and think, I didn't ask for my child to breathe today yet she has breath. Thank you. Thank you God. I know it's because of you! I'm so thankful.

What more could I ask for?

And then I close my eyes and really think about it and outside of my head I see that maybe I need to stop thinking it's up to me. What if what's happening to us is in response to someone else's prayer?

Someone else on their knees, on my behalf?




I'm so humbled.

It's so big......this life.

And we are so very small.

Life turns and I spin

and I roll with it

and I want to land where He wants me to be.



Which is probably on my knees.