Dare 16

Love intercedes

I cannot change anyone.  As much as I want to, I can’t play God and reach into peoples hearts and mold them into what I want them to be, or think they should be.  But that’s what a lot of people in relationships do.

I realized a long time ago that when I meet a man that I’m attracted to, if I start noticing things about him I would change I need to walk away, because experience has shown me that I can’t change anyone, and believe me I have tried.  If only I had learned about the power of prayer a long time ago I may still be married, but hind sight is 20/20.

What I have learned is that prayer doesn’t change God, prayer changes me.  And as I pray for someone else I shift into acceptance of that person and myself, and maybe, in God’s time, that person will also have a shift.

I’ve learned that God does things His way on His time table, not mine.  We talk about intention vs. mechanism and how we put it out there having no idea how it will look.  Well for me, it’s the same thing with prayer and asking God for something I really, really think I want , need and know how it should be, and low & behold, when things come to pass, it always works out better in the end when I just do the work & leave the results up to God.

This reminds me of the Garth Brooks song ‘Unanswered Prayers’, about praying for something we really think we want and then later being grateful we didn’t get it. 

“Sometimes I thank God for unanswered prayers
Remember when you're talkin' to the man upstairs
That just because he doesn't answer doesn't mean he don't care
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers”

But I digress…The point is we can’t change anyone, we can only pray for them and depend on God for the results.  So I will change my complaints into prayers and watch the Master work.

Until next time…