Last Monday, Dad and I joined our parish's annual Visita Iglesia. We joined last year and I was able to convince him to join again this year. At each church, I was reciting very basic prayer intentions:
- Good health for our family
- Financial stability
- Good relationships between me and dad, us, lolo and lola, etc
You know how God takes your prayers and completely turns it around? For example, you ask for the gift of patience, then God goes and gives you a week of incompetent work colleagues and kids with tantrums. The essence is -- He is giving you situations so you can exercise your patience. And just the physiology of the muscle -- if you exercise it enough, a day will come when the task (i.e. being patient) will not seem as hard anymore.
This is the reason why I no longer pray for patience.
Anyway, God seemed to focus on my relationship-building prayer and pounced on it. Because it the hours between Black Saturday and Easter Sunday, He allowed it to be strained.
TO BE CONTINUED.
