The New Testament describes the characteristics of a virtuous widow who is qualified to receive help from believers. This womans description seems to parallel the miraculous poured-out life portrayed by the Proverbs 31 woman. She does not live for her own pleasure but is well reported for good works bringing up children lodging strangers washing the saints feet relieving the afflicted and diligently following every good work. How does she accomplish all of this She trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day 1 Timothy 55-610. She lives a supernatural existence accomplishing incredible things without stress and exhaustion because she makes prayer the foundation of her life.

Prayer desperate prayer seems so simple but its a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.

If God were not only to hear our prayers as he does ever and always but to answer them as we want them answered he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

Men may spurn our appeals reject our message oppose our arguments despise our persons but they are helpless against our prayers.

The Christian should work as if all depended upon him and pray as if it all depended upon God.

Her eyes were of different colors the left as brown as autumn the right as gray as Atlantic wind. Both seemed alive with questions that would never be voiced as if no words yet existed with which to frame them. She was nineteen years old or thereabouts her exact age was unknown. Her face was as fresh as an apple and as delicate as blossom but a marked depression in the bones beneath her left eye gave her features a disturbing asymmetry. Her mouth never curved into a smile. God it seemed had withheld that possibility as surely as from a blind man the power of sight. He had withheld much else. Amparo was touchedby genius by madness by the Devil or by a conspiracy of all these and more. She took no sacraments and appeared incapable of prayer. She had a horror of clocks and mirrors. By her own account she spoke with Angels and could hear the thoughts of animals and trees. She was passionately kind to all living things. She was a beam of starlight trapped in flesh and awaiting only the moment when it would continue on its journey into forever. p.33

When you find yourself in one of those mysticaldevotional frames of mind or in am emergency and you feel you want to pray then pray. Dont ever be ashamed to pray or feel prevented by thinking yourself unworthy in any way. Fact is whatever terrible thing you may have done praying will always turn your energy around for the better.Pray to whomever whatever and whenever you choose. Pray to the mountain pray to the ancestors pray to the Earth pray to the Tao but it wont listen pray to the Great Mother pray to Jehovah Allah Buddha Jesus Lakshmi Siva pray to the Great Spirit it makes no difference. Praying is merely a device for realigning the mind energy and passion of your local self with the mind energy and passion of your universal self. When you pray you are praying to the god or goddess within you. This has an effect on your energy field which in turn translates into a positive charge that makes something good happen.

God I am trying to recover my faith. Please dont abandon me in the middle ofthis adventure I prayed pushing my fears aside.

Dear Lynda Carter Please be with me in my hour of need. Especially if I dont have to twirl around to get my powers.

Thats where thinking started where thinking stopped where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations on the theme of escape. And they were nothing more than that just dreams just play. Shed been alone at the end of her dreams so many times before and never had God helped her escape her father because God couldnt because she would never escape her need to love him.