So, I'm not sure if I mentioned this before, but I attend church on Sundays. As a Christian, it's always been really important to me to be around others. Well, that and it helps me from being a complete shut in.
I was talking with my Sunday school teacher before the service started, and was telling her about the couple who were trying to pray for the mother to give up their twin girls. When I told her I had been taught that praying like that was a misuse of prayer, she defended it! I was taken aback to be honest. She said that the bible says we can pray for the desire of our hearts. I couldn't believe it.
Also, she informed me that I come across as very anti adoption on my facebook. I was like "Really, and here I thought I was being nice!" I explained that I am against pre birth matching and that's just the tip of the ice berg. We didn't have time to really talk about it. She is starting to get where I am coming from. She's one of those ones who say "But we are adopted into God's family." Yea, no that's not how that works.
When you are adopted into God's family, your whole history isn't taken away from you. Your birth certificate isn't altered and the original sealed away. It just bugs me when she uses that phrase to justify the lies. Because adoptees are lied to.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Wow really? Nice!
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That's interesting. Personally, as a Lutheran, I would say it's fine to pray for what you want, because God isn't gonna grant you anything just because you asked. I know, because I've tried asking. God will give you what God will give you, and I don't think praying for what we want others to do is any more effective than wishing on shooting stars. We can pray for God to change us, but praying for God to change others is silly.
That being said I encounter a dilemma earlier this year that is maybe a little similar to this question. My boss's two-year-old son needed a heart transplant. You can only transplant a heart of a baby very close to the same age, because the size has to match. So for this baby to get a heart transplant, someone else's perfectly healthy baby has to die a sudden death. So... how do you pray? Either way, somebody's two-year-old is going to die. I just prayed for God to hold him in His hand... and he did. No heart became available, and my boss's baby died.
Some times there isn't anything you can ask God that doesn't make someone completely miserable.
You have a good point. I really posted this in a hurry. I remember a song I was taught that goes "Sometimes God will answer yes when we pray, sometimes God will answer no" and then "wait." It just seems to me that some people who are adopting that sometimes the answer to their prayer isn't always what they want. Harsh but true. Thanks for reminding me of it, I had forgotten.
Oh goodness that heart transplant thing is heart breaking. I am so sorry your boss's child died. I can't even imagine how I would pray in that situation. I think I would say "Lord, whatever happens, please be with me and my family." I wouldn't be able to do anything else.
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