If you’re a military wife, you know about prayer. (Or at least I hope you do!). We pray when our husbands leave, pray while they’re gone, pray until they come back. We depend on prayer many times to get us through to the next phone call, the next email, the next instant message.
Please, God, keep him safe.
I’ve seen answered prayers in my life many times, in some simple ways and powerful ways.
When I was 18 and in the high school end of year spring musical – my first time to be a lead part (I was Mabel in Pirates of Penzance), I lost my voice less than a month before the show’s opening night. When the hoarsness came, it didn’t go away, and my high notes (which Mabel had many of) were coming out like little mouse squeaks.
The doctor took one look and promptly put me on voice rest. I had a nodule on one of my vocal cords (basically a calloused blister). It didn’t look like I would be doing any singing any time soon….
After two weeks of no talking, carrying around a little pad of paper and growing increasingly frustrated that I might have to turn my part over to my understudy, I remember one Sunday morning going down to the front of the church during prayer time with my mom. I asked God to please heal my voice, and do it so that HE would be honored and glorified, not me.
That afternoon as I sat in my room on my bed doing a Bible study. I distinctly thought I felt God telling me to start singing. Slowly I sat up and began to sing Mabel’s aria. Every note came out crystal clear and when I’d finished, my mom was standing at the doorway with tears in her eyes.
The first thing I did the next morning was bound into my choir director’s office and let him know God had healed my voice. I remember him smiling a little sheepishly, unsure of how to respond.
“Wow, that’s great… but let’s just be careful today at rehearsal, make sure you’re really ok.”
I didn’t have another problem the rest of the practices and the show and my choir director was bouncing off the floor after opening night, amazed at how clear the notes had come out (I have a feeling, now 13 years later, no amount of prayer would be able to let me sing those high notes today! LOL 
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My friend Jennifer Schuchmann has written a book called Six Prayers God Always Answers (Results May Vary) that I’d like to highly recommend that you read.
She and her co-author, Mark Herringshaw, offer some great insights into prayer, how we use it, why we use it, and why we should use it. This is a great approach to what is often a heavy theological discussion in other books that are out there, but Jennifer and Mark break it down for the average person, in simple easy to understand language with interesting personal stories and extremely well-researched illustrations and examples.
It’s also got some very funny points in it, which I would expect since I know Jennifer. (She’s hilarious -any time I need a break from my writing and the need for some comic relief, I call her).
Plus, I love the size of the book. It’s small enough to stick in your beach bag and take with you for a relaxing read at the pool. So take a moment and check this book out - I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I did.
Speaking of relaxing…This will be my last post until Monday, dear readers. If all goes well, and my son loses his baseball game tonight (spoken like a mom who really needs a vacation), my husband and I will be headed out of town tomorrow for a much needed, much anticipated weekend getaway to celebrate our 10 year anniversary (which was actually last weekend but put on hold since he had drill).
So, in the meantime, check out Jennifer’s book or her blog and tell her I sent you!
See you back here on Monday!
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