(January 15, 2014 at 6:05 pm)truthBtold Wrote: That just made my stomach hurt!.. answered prayers for a job.. or finding car keys.. suffering gets comfort and acceptance??
I think what prayer ultimately does is to help God help you do whatever it is you want to do/achieve. So perhaps you will get the self confidence to be successful in your job interview, you gain greater perceptive awareness to find your lost keys and with cancer you boost your bodies healing and recuperative abilities. Certainly people who fight cancer with a positive attitude will have a higher survival rate than those who feel hopeless and helpless. So we can say with certainty that prayer does in fact work though only a certain way to a certain point. You are going to die of something at some point and it can be any point that's the nature of life, what it will do then is prepare you for death/loss which is still of great value.
Come all ye faithful joyful and triumphant.
