I was asked tonight what prompts people to just stop and pray for another person.
And I know my answer but I want to write about it and I need some more data.
Where to collect that I wondered? So I had a fabulous idea!! "Start with the blog," I thought.
So....Could you all do me a favor? Please answer the flowing questions:
1) Have you ever felt prompted, during a conversation with someone to pray for that person?
2) If yes, did you act on that prompting? How? (eg. did you pray right then and there with that person or leave and privately pray for them later.) Note: consider that inaction - not praying -might be considered action.
3) What happened?
4) How often are you prompted to pray for people?
[Either email me (if you have that) or post to the blog. Either is fine as I know some of you aren't bloggers....Thanks for your thoughts. It might take a while, but I'll post something eventually about this again. Part of the new blog is going to be trying to get it more interactive. Just decided that tonight. (I might even take it public....ooooh!) ]
Back in college, in 2004 when blogging was hardly even a thing yet, I was here. Blogging before blogging meant anything to anyone. You can look in the archives for my past writings, but it was much more like a journal in the past. When we started fundraising, I messed around with the idea of launching something new for this new phase of our journey but actually hated that idea. I am a sum of all of my life and so much of it is here already. So I'm keeping it here. At least for now.
My main focus these days is blogging about our newest journey into the bizarre and wonderful world of gestational surrogacy. Posts dated 2013 and forward will trend heavily toward that journey. I don't promise everything I write will be about though. There might be other things that sneak in occasionally.
Please come along our journey with us. As the saying goes, "The more, the merrier!"
2 comments:
Every once in a while when talking to someone I will feel that they need to be prayed with. Most often I feel more comfortable if my wife is with me, but a couple (!) of times, I have RISKED it by myself.
What has happened? The other person has left the conversation 'feeling better' and the world has not ended. I have probably only done this by myself a handful of times, but with my wife or a group alongside, it has happened more often.
F
(Sorry if this posts twice - weird Beta issues deleted my last comment which was probably better written than this one.)
I've had quite a few times where I've been prompted to pray for people during intense conversations. Usually when a friend or family member is going through a some sort of crisis - a lot of times a situation is out of my control and when words of comfort or empathy are not going far enough - I find it best to intercede for that person. The person I'm praying for usually tells me that praying with them helps them calm down or find peace in trying times but sometimes situations have required repeated conversations and prayers with no positive results (yet!). I do find it best to pray with the person right away - one time this even meant sitting down on a bench in the mall and praying with my sister over the phone - but if it's someone that I don't know as well, often times I will just offer to pray for them on my own.
Looking forward to reading your "results".
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