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Jerry Foote's avatar

Someone lost a pen so God could providentially answer your prayer. Was the ram in the thicket a lost sheep some shepherd never found? Who clumsily dropped a coin in the lake so Peter could take it from a fish's mouth? Whose prayer in the temple was answered by the widow's grateful, costly sacrifice? How many people have been blessed by your happily ink-empty pen that day? Has any prayer ever been individual, and not communal?

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Marcia Lee Laycock's avatar

Love this story and the poem! Thanks for letting us know you found one and kept it! A physical testimony to God's love and grace. :)

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Gentley Bondeson's avatar

I love the playful childlike relationship with our Lord expressed in this poem! It was also a delight to see that you did find (were sent) a pen!!

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Gayle Heaslip's avatar

Anna, such a fine poem. Theological questions around prayer lived out in the particular, and seasonsed with good humor. I will remember this poem and draw from it.

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Joel Timothy's avatar

This also made me laugh reading it, Anna, and I thank you for that! A worthy break in the Lenten series.

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Megan Willome's avatar

This may be my favorite poem from you (so far!).

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Lee Baker DeVore's avatar

I e always loved this one! For its humor and humble mundane request and how god illogically sometimes answers these small asks! I wonder if they amuse and warm his heart that we trust him with little asks as well as big ones. And then, of course being me, I think how I would have used mud. And a stick or a crushed dandelion leaf to write with!

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Anna A. Friedrich's avatar

Haha, Lee! Of course you would have used mud! Didn't even cross my mind, I'm sad to admit...

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Tohru Inoue's avatar

Love it.

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Sally Breedlove's avatar

I love this! All the ruminations of my every day prayers--

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Therese's avatar

Persistent in prayer…persevering in putting it down. Thank you!

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Adam Alphin's avatar

Bravo!

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Leslie Brennan's avatar

Hahaha! Love this, Anna! Lost my phone at Busch Gardens last week. It's wonderful.

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Anna A. Friedrich's avatar

Did you find it?

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Leslie Brennan's avatar

Nope. It's been a week. Nothing dreadful has happened yet....

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Lindsey Lamh's avatar

My sister is always praying for things that are miraculously provided. It’s so neat to hear stories like this! And it makes for a humorous, real sort of poem too.

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Melanie Bettinelli's avatar

This is so fun. This definitely sounds like many of my conversations with Jesus. And I was waiting the whole time wondering if you were going to find the pen... so much anticipation. I was thrilled to read that you did find one. I love that you still have it all cute with washi tape.

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