Your Dying Spouse 738 - Petitionary Prayers {Five Minute Friday}

So often when we pray, we're asing God for something...

Heal me!

Heal my spouse/child/parent/friend/pet!

Heal my relationship!

Heal my finances!

Heal my faith!

Notice a pattern here? We're almost always praying for healing, of one sort or another.

These are good prayers, the kind that we're supposed to pray.

All the more reason for it to break God's heart when He has to say, No.

We almost never know exactly why God says no...we're in the position of the good kid who works hard in school, gets good grades, saves money...and wants, at sixteen, to buy a Corvette.

As a parent, you've got to put the kibosh on that one. Not because of a lack of trust, but because of a knowledge of temptation the kid's going to have, with all that horsepower to call his own.

And seeing the disappointment, you've just got to hurt for him.

And for yourself, too, because you want to give happiness.

But sometimes good and happy are not on the same page, and you've got to go with good.

And sometimes healing isn't good, either.

For me, well...I would have loved to have been healed in years past, but it's become clear that finding and sharing both joy and hope along the Cancer Road is what I'm here to do; I've touched people in a way that I could never have dreamt of, have found my own faith strengthened by trial (when I thought the reverse would happen), and have found, indeed, the happiest days of my life.

Would I want all that 'healed' away?

Not likely.

But I do figure that God is, Himself, heartbroken over the sincere prayers for healing of one type or another to which He has to say, No.

So I figured I'd cheer Him up.

The sonnet below first appeared in Joe Siccardi's blog post, Pray As You Go.

I know that God really cares,

and I bet He's crying after

all those intercession-prayers,

so I think I'll pray some laughter.

"Dear Lord, You know that I can be

a pain unto the neck,

so make me more like Donkey,

as seen, You know, on Shrek.

Let me make the groans take wing

with jokes that are so awful,

that to quiet me, all will bring

tall stacks of syrup'd waffle.

And dear God, if this be Your choice,

please give me Eddie Murphy's voice."

Here's Donkey, singing La Vida Loca from Shrek 2.

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