"Everything beautiful has to be worked for." That's the last line in the August 3rd reading of Eawaran's Words to Live By. Which caused a line of thought to pop...I wonder if that's not the key to answered prayers.
We are told to pray without ceasing, but we ignore the rest of the message which is to pray thanking God for, not asking God for. We thank God for that which is not yet visible to our mind's eye or our naked eye...it is still a restless hope, or sometimes a restless dread. We thank God and walk toward that hope, that dread.
It is in walking forward toward our perceived desire that our path is made clear, one step at a time. We may...no, we will...make many missteps and wrong turns (if we're doing it right) before we arrive at our perfected desire which...surprise!...turns out to be not our perceived desire, but something way better.
Quite often that better thing is the one thing we were praying to not be true or to not happen. And, as foretold somewhere in the Bible or the Koran or the Torah or any other piece of spiritual literature we've not read, the scales fall from our eyes.
God's will is not available to our reasoning mind. It is beautiful and has to be worked for.
Thank you.
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