Unanswered prayers

I don’t know why this thought crossed my mind the other day. Not sure what triggered it. It could’ve possibly been a new wish or prayer that was interrupted by a voice inside my head warning me against troubling my heart with a yet another uncalled for dream!

This thought took me back to every single wish I had ever since I was 24 years old. I almost remember every conversation I had with God.

With every dream came a huge disappointment. But as the years went by all the pain caused by every unanswered prayer was replaced with gratitude.

How thankful I am for all the unanswered prayers. I don’t want to even entertain the thought of “what if” one of them had come true? Where would I be now?

What a terrifying thought!

Think for a minute if the fresh prayer that found its way to your heart today will one day turn into a suffocating thought...would this ever change the way we pray?

This thought reminded me of an old song by Garth Brooks called “Unanswered Prayers”

“Remember when you’re talking to the man upstairs

That just because he may not answer doesn’t mean he don’t care

Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered prayers”