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marlap2
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I didn’t know exactly where to put this, but I thought it should be here to encourage you to pray with an expectant faith.
For many years a lovely couple and I would talk after Mass, and pray for two intentions. One, for their son, a heroin addict, to be healed and return to his Catholic roots, through God’s grace. The other prayer, was to pray for my sister, also in the throes of addiction to be healed and converted to the Catholic Church.
Yesterday I was at a Charismatic Conference. I was looking for my sister, who I assumed had saved a seat for me. When over the sea of people, I saw her, my heart warmed when I saw the seat she saved was beside this particular lovely woman who had prayed for this sister. My sister was surprised when instead of hugging her, I reached past her to tearfully hug the lady on my right. She mentioned to me how cold she was, and my sister, who volunteers now for a street ministry said she know exactly what to do. She got up to get a hand-made blanket that is made by the ladies in recovery. While she was gone, I told the woman who that lady was. She was so surprised! God is so good to have put these two people together in such an amazing way. When my sister came back with the blanket, she was again shocked to see this woman crying with joy. I told my sister that this woman had been praying for HER for years, and that my sister was a miracle and a living example of hope that her son may be healed one day, for this is over five years now that she has been clean, sober, and a Catholic who attends Mass several days a week. Prayer is amazing, yes, but God’s mercy is even more amazing, especially when He lets us see a little bit of His plan.
For many years a lovely couple and I would talk after Mass, and pray for two intentions. One, for their son, a heroin addict, to be healed and return to his Catholic roots, through God’s grace. The other prayer, was to pray for my sister, also in the throes of addiction to be healed and converted to the Catholic Church.
Yesterday I was at a Charismatic Conference. I was looking for my sister, who I assumed had saved a seat for me. When over the sea of people, I saw her, my heart warmed when I saw the seat she saved was beside this particular lovely woman who had prayed for this sister. My sister was surprised when instead of hugging her, I reached past her to tearfully hug the lady on my right. She mentioned to me how cold she was, and my sister, who volunteers now for a street ministry said she know exactly what to do. She got up to get a hand-made blanket that is made by the ladies in recovery. While she was gone, I told the woman who that lady was. She was so surprised! God is so good to have put these two people together in such an amazing way. When my sister came back with the blanket, she was again shocked to see this woman crying with joy. I told my sister that this woman had been praying for HER for years, and that my sister was a miracle and a living example of hope that her son may be healed one day, for this is over five years now that she has been clean, sober, and a Catholic who attends Mass several days a week. Prayer is amazing, yes, but God’s mercy is even more amazing, especially when He lets us see a little bit of His plan.
