You know what I think is sad is the fact that others are reading private prayers to God. I know I have been in church services ebfore where you wrote down your private praye requests and put them in a sealed envelop and the pastor and staff of the church would take the envelops and without opening it up pray over it. God knows what is written in each letter and that's all that is needed. I have on sevreal occations prayed for someone who has had an unspoken prayer request. The way I pray for those is something like this, not not always the exact words, "Lord, please help this person through what ever trials they are going through. Please let the out come of this situtuation bring glory to you somehow. Amen." It's not a long prayer, but it still helps none the less. I'm just wondering if these letters were meant to be opened or meant to stay sealed. They say Dear Lord and not Dear Pastor, so I suspect that they are ment to stay sealed. I know that I have worked out some problems by writing my prayers down. And maybe that was part of the reason they wrote them and then sealed them up in an envelop. But wheather or not they were meant to be opened, just don't assume that they were never prayed over. It might have been a simple case of too much mail and the pastor or church staff prayed over all of them at one time with the letters still being sealed. :-)
that's what make me so sad about it ~ that they were disposed of so carelessly.
we had a prayer offering box where people submitted anonymous pettions (or sometimes just signed their first names). i used to submit to that box every week before my appointed holy hour. people pour out their hearts and hurts into those prayer requests with the trust and faith that those who read them will offer their prayers sincerely.
it's true they may, in fact, have been prayed over without ever being opened. i would like to hope that was the case. and i hope the daughter will dispose of them respectfully in the end.
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weird and sad
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God knows the hopes and prayers of the letters, but there's something very sad on the human end of things in this tale.
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we had a prayer offering box where people submitted anonymous pettions (or sometimes just signed their first names). i used to submit to that box every week before my appointed holy hour. people pour out their hearts and hurts into those prayer requests with the trust and faith that those who read them will offer their prayers sincerely.
it's true they may, in fact, have been prayed over without ever being opened. i would like to hope that was the case. and i hope the daughter will dispose of them respectfully in the end.
: D