Praying Boldly

  • by Trish Berg
  • April 30, 2014
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Struggling with loads of laundry, clutter in the kitchen and chaos in your life? Stress can easily steal our joy. Trish Berg reminds us to simplify the small stuff and find Joy in the Journey. Each and every week, I struggle with what to write about in this column. If you have ever run into me in the real world, I have probably asked you for some column ideas. Let’s see, I have written a newspaper column for two separate newspapers for over a dozen years, at one per week, that’s a lot of columns. That’s a lot of topics. And frankly I seem to be running out. My children have grown up in this column. I have shared their stories from the diaper changing years to the prom dress years, about sports from cross country to baseball. You have shared in our joys and our sorrows, challenges and blessings. I have written about the changing season, white snow, autumn breezes, and how spring can’t come soon enough. I have written about all of the struggles I face as a wife and mother, about trying to make the right decisions, hoping I don’t make too many mistakes. Oh, I have written about loving the people closest to me, losing ones I love, and sometimes about feeling like I am losing my mind in the process. But with all of the hundreds and hundreds of columns I have written over the last dozen years, I have never written about one thing - praying boldly. So here goes. I am not a bold prayer warrior. In fact, my prayers are quite timid. I guess I don’t feel like I deserve much, so I pray for little, hoping that I squeak by with even less. It’s not that I don’t think God is an awesome God, because He is. I know He can work miracles. I have read about many of His miracles in the Bible. I also have seen many little miracles in my own life, and have felt His hand in them all. But somehow, when it comes to praying boldly, I just don’t do it. Then last week, I was blessed with some fantastic news. Surprising news. News that blew me away. It doesn’t really matter what the news was, but rather that it was an abundant blessing from above. You see, I had been praying for crumbs to be tossed my way, for God to just bless me a little bit, because that was all I needed. Just a tiny little blessing would be good enough for me. Well, God must have sat back and laughed out loud and said, “Patricia Berg, don’t you limit me!” For when I got the good news, I was quite shocked. Just when I thought God was closing a door, He opened it wider than ever, invited me in, and reminded me that His ways are always the best. Most of all, He reminded me not to limit Him in my prayers. So I am praying a lot more boldly these days. I am asking for the sun and the moon in my prayers, for loved ones with cancer to be completely cured and for people whom I know to be abundantly blessed. I am no longer praying for crumbs. I am praying for the whole loaf of bread! In the end, God will answer my prayers, as He always does, in His way, in His time, and with the answer that I need. It may not always be the answer I want, but I will always trust in Him. So there you go. A new topic for my column this week. I hope it made an impact on you, for you always make an impact on me. As for praying boldly, as they say…go bold or go home. Well, maybe they don’t say that…but now, I sure do!


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