Answered Prayers

When I woke up Monday morning I was excited to write. While I was visiting my daughter I had not brought a laptop and so my thoughts remained locked up inside my brain. I needed to expel them.

But as I had been away from home for a few days and my husband had kindly followed-up on honey-do projects in my absence, I had some tidying up and cleaning to do. So I quickly wrote one blog post and then tended to my chores. All the while I wished not to be doing laundry and assorted other tasks—I wished to be emptying my cerebrum instead.

And then the power went out.

At first I thought Damn--how will I vacuum? How will I get the laundry done? How will I finish my housework?

And then I remembered that my laptop had a fully charged battery. Instead of doing chores I could write—and I could do it guilt free. The lack of power was the perfect excuse to do what I wanted to do in the first place.

Don’t ever think that prayers are not answered. Prayers are answered all of the time. You just have to be paying attention.