The Braxtons of Miracle Springs (2016)
“The others were all just gathering for breakfast. Pa said he’d like to talk to everyone. We went into the big room, sat down, and waited.
“I been thinking hard about what Christopher told us the other day,” Pa began after a few minutes, “about how to pray for things.”
He drew in a long breath.
“I reckon I’m ready to do it,” he went on. “I mean, I think God’s telling me to do it. He’s been asking me the same thing he asked Christopher—if I was willing to be the person he might want t...o use to answer my own prayer. Seemed a mite cockeyed a thing to me at first—praying for somebody who’s out to put a bullet in your head, then telling God that instead of hiding from the feller you’ll let him answer the prayer through you! How could he even do such a thing? I been trying to make sense out of it for a week, but I can’t.
“Then it came to me how all God’s ways of doing things are a mite cockeyed from man’s way of looking at them.MoreLess
“I been thinking hard about what Christopher told us the other day,” Pa began after a few minutes, “about how to pray for things.”
He drew in a long breath.
“I reckon I’m ready to do it,” he went on. “I mean, I think God’s telling me to do it. He’s been asking me the same thing he asked Christopher—if I was willing to be the person he might want t...o use to answer my own prayer. Seemed a mite cockeyed a thing to me at first—praying for somebody who’s out to put a bullet in your head, then telling God that instead of hiding from the feller you’ll let him answer the prayer through you! How could he even do such a thing? I been trying to make sense out of it for a week, but I can’t.
“Then it came to me how all God’s ways of doing things are a mite cockeyed from man’s way of looking at them.MoreLess
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