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How could this Cat prayer be changed to focus on God's glory?
"God, my heart hurts so much!! We've tried and tried to have a baby and this time we thought we were successful, but the doctor has told us of the abnormality and the life-long complications this baby will have - if it even survives. This isn't what we planned for and I know this isn't what you designed either. Is abortion really wrong? - I mean, the Bible doesn't actually mention it... and I'm not sure the baby is really a life yet anyway...
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Here's what we think:
Dog Prayer: God, our hearts are hurting so much! Now I think I'm beginning to understand what you must have felt when your Creation fell from perfection and into such a sinful state. Thank you for not abandoning us when we weren't perfect. Thank you for your patience with us because sin has left a life-long scar on us and the price you had to pay to correct it was so costly. In this time of not knowing what to do... may we use this suffering to relate to You and to show others Your heart...
Our Analysis
As you can see, these two prayers aren't much different from the 18 before it... it's just that the ramifications and "size" of the problem seems so much more larger. In an age when medicine and science can open so many new options on how to fix things, it's only the Dog that will long to please God in spite of what it may cost themselves. The first prayer begins to fudge a little and doubt God's word and seems to assume that what is good for them must be God's will too. The second prayer seeks to relate life's most difficult circumstances to God Himself.
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