Hi NK,
while I don’t know about others here: I am a firm believer that prayers get answered more readily when people with nothing to gain: ask these prayers too.
as such; you have my solemn promise as soon as I finish this post: I’ll be getting on my knees and asking for you.
*to those that scoff, I say scoff away. the day may come when you have no choice but to ask the same and I also solemnly promise to do the same if requested.
sometimes the answer to our prayers is no. I cannot pretend to know why. Only say that to have faith in asking, is to have faith in the reply that comes.
Somtimes the reason for the answer comes in near future; sometimes not: I have been recipient of both.
I know not the reasons behind these outcomes. I offer this thought: as a big supporter of the idea of the big picture: though seldom my privledge to know though I try to find it.
To what logic/ reason is there for our lives if we only live the length of about 1/100th the time of a mountain? (perhaps an underestimate of a mountain’s lifetime)
seems rather a futile logic at best. So then there must be more than this life. If you don’t believe that: then relax – whether 20 years or 100; it is hardly enough time or reason to worry about anything.