Payer and Meditation

I don’t think I’ve ever told anyone about the time when my words seriously changed the atmosphere. I was an Assistant Manager at a pizza place, and it was a Friday night. We were busy, which was to be expected. But it seemed like there was chaos in the atmosphere.

There came a time when I felt really blue. Sick to my stomach depressed. I felt like I was living in a sealed plastic bag and no matter how hard I tried I just couldn’t poke a hole in that bag or find a way out. My outlook was dull; I struggled with hope and joy. I felt stuck with limited life. I did not want to do anything, and I felt that nothing mattered anyway.

Do you have people in your life like that? Can you feel their hurts right along with them? Since God is a sovereign God, I struggle knowing how to pray and what to say. Do you ever experience that too? Do we really know what needs to happen or what needs to be done, especially for those really hardened hearts? Our prayers are only requests anyway.