For the Love of Us All

UNANSWERED PRAYERS

One of my favorite songs

Is a song called, “Unanswered Prayers”

By Garth Brooks

It is about a man

Running into his old girlfriend

Many years later

“She was the one

I had wanted for ALL time”

And it is about the man

Being thankful

That his prayer was not answered

And him being thankful

That he was

With the woman he was with

His wife

Often times

GOD KNOWS

What is best for us

Even before we do

“Be still and know

That I am God”                                                     Psalm 46:10

Have you ever prayed

Like that-for someone

Or something

I have-SO BAD

That I thought

That my heart was breaking

That I thought

I was going to die

All I ever wanted

Was that special someone

To call my own

To BUILD a family with

BUT GOD SAID NO

“Oh Lord-you have searched me

And you know me”                                                        Psalm 139:1

I have ALL these friendships

With all these beautiful women

And men in my life

God KNOWS us

Better than we know ourselves

90 per cent of all marriages

Where one of the parties

Are disabled

Or has a severe chronic illness

End in divorce

“Sometimes I thank God

For unanswered prayers”

She was the one

I had wanted for all time

“Search me-Oh God

And know my heart

Test me

And know my anxious thoughts”                                           

If you are my friend

Woman or man-KNOW THIS

I am committed to you

And I love you

“Sometimes I thank God

For unanswered prayers”

Robert P. Wallman

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