Pen Pal

In College I was very fortunate to meet this very sweet man at my church. His name is Jim. He came up with this brillant idea for us to be pen pals. I was so excited to receive a letter in the mail from him on Monday. It made me stop and think about us and prayer. I guess part of that is because I think God is working on my prayer life right now. But it made me think of mail as my prayers. God is on the other side receiving my letters. Think about how you feel when all you get is junk mail and bills, this is when we are just asking God to give me, give me, give me. But then you get a letter from a pen pal or a card from a family member; this is when we really sit down and have a heart felt conversation with God. This is what he desires, he wants to have a relationship with us where we converse back in forth not where we just tell him what we want and then leave. Just like a pen pal relationship would not work if only one person wrote letters all the time. We need to listen to God's reply and what he wants to say to us as well.