pray

 i try to always remember to live in gratitude. we as humans always seem to focus on what we lack, the bad things that are happening to us or around us that we rarely ever stop and see all the amazing things we should be grateful for. 

we also seem to get so caught up in how "bad" things are or how "things arent going your way" that we dont realize more times than not, we prayed for these moments. follow me here....now im not saying we pray for the unimaginable things that do happen to us, but for instance my best friend was laid off during COVID and at dinner the other night she was saying how that was one of the happiest moments of her life..she was living her best life! she was back into journaling, her devotionals and more focused on herself than lost in work. she did find a new job which she loved and was great at, and found herself praying for that peace and happiness she felt when she got laid off. she was again laid off July of this year. she couldve easily gotten sucked into the blackhole of depression and "why me" mentality but when she sat down and looked at the bigger picture she realized...she prayed for this! she asked for peace and happiness and her happiest, her peace is when shes not working and we laughed at how so many moments we think "how/why is this happening?" and it could be something we prayed for. our prayers are always heard and answered. may not be how we envisioned it or on our time but believe that our prayers do get answered. 

so i try to be more mindful of my prayers, be more intentional. being intentional is new too for a lot of people, but thats for a later time :)

so...what will you pray for today knowing it will be answered?