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| PRAYER,
FAITH AND COLLEGE Prayer is a lot like faith. By using prayer to communicate with God, you have to first accept that there is something beyond your physical being, something greater than you that knows what you’ve done, what you’ve thought, and what you’re going to do. What’s more, prayer is also extremely personal, where you are able to let go of your feelings and thoughts and speak to someone, knowing that they’ll listen. Over the past few years, I had been struggling with my faith. I was always skeptical about God, never wanting to believe that I was not in complete control over my actions and my life. For this reason alone, I had decided to wait for a ‘big sign’ to hit me, before I made my final decision as to what I believed. About five years later, after already being in college for two, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that the ‘big sign’ I had been looking for had already come; it just came disguised as many ‘coincidences’. During my two years in college, I had gotten into some bad habits that left my grades lower than expected, in trouble with the dean of discipline, and worst of all having my parents not mad about any of it, just thoroughly disappointed. When this realization hit me, I reverted to prayer. I dropped my pride and prayed for help and a sense of calmness in my life. At first I thought that the prayer was just a way out, something that I could do to keep me focused on the important things, but later I was able to see that my prayers were being answered. I was able to pick myself back up and start over. Although this is only one example, there have been countless experiences before and after this where I now see that God was involved in my life. Like I said, prayer is a lot like faith. When you realize that one is important, you see the importance of the other also. Without prayer I would have never found my faith and been able to accept God’s offer to embrace and be embraced by him. Timothy ^ Back to Top |
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