I prayed about my attitude, I took it all to God. I still didn't feel peace, and the cloud of grumpiness hadn't yet dissipated.
So I prayed more, this time I itemized.
I think sometimes that helps to lay it all out there, maybe helps to process it, and realize how trivial some things are. But I still felt a little...drowning.
My best dear friend called on her way home from a busy day at work, with her own difficulties, and I told her about mine. Somehow just talking to her about it and knowing I wasn't the only one helped. I started to say that I just couldn't believe praying about it didn't bring peace like it usually did...until I realized...I did have peace. It had.
God HAD answered my prayers.
He sent me a friend.
Someone who called at just the right time, who knew how I felt. I wasn't alone. He had given me peace.
Sometimes we pray for a miracle, a sign, something big written in the sky. But sometimes, it's right there. As close as the air we breathe, maybe a verse in a devotion or a voice on the other end of the phone, a hug given at just the right moment, a smile in the middle of a cloudy day.
My friend had no idea she was the answer to a prayer, but I made sure and told her. And then I said my thank you prayers.
Did you ever realize YOU may be the answer to someone's prayer? You have a place in this world, you have a place in others lives. You never know when your smile or word of encouragement may just be the life preserver to another drowning soul.
"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid." John 14:27
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