"God Answers Our Prayers"

When we experience hardships and difficulties
or when we aspire for something - dreams...
we want fulfilled and realized for our family
and loved ones - and even our own desires:
both noble or practical.  We experience a
feeling of want - of lack - of loss -
of incompleteness - of no sense of meaning
- of no fulfillment - no accomplishment.
We get sick and endure the pains and
trials of an illness. We lose a loved one
and grieve intensely. We lose a job.
Our business fails. OUr social circle
deserts us or we are forgotten even by
friends close to us and dear to us.
We lose all sense of support. We are all
alone.  And we cry out to God. We bare
our need and sinfulness before Him.
We plead and ask His mercy. And we wait,
often in suffering and pain. Then we
suddenly feel as if He does not hear
us. And then...then...when we least
expect it, we get an illumination
- a realization: "God answers our
prayers".  But in His time, not
ours. And we realize that He does
answer and respond in the very little
things, the very ordinary situations
that we take for granted.