Life is Like...Unanswered Prayers


It is hard for me to pick just one or two favorite songs, because I have too many.  But one of my favorites is “Unanswered Prayers” by Garth Brooks.

What that song so beautifully expresses is that even though we pray (because we want something so badly) it isn’t that He doesn’t hear our prayer it’s “just because He doesn’t answer, doesn’t mean He don’t care...because some of God’s greatest gifts, ARE unanswered prayers.

We may think we know what is best for us, but that is just it, we think we know.  And He and only He knows what is best for us and will not “answer” all of our prayers just because we pray for it.  We think in the short-term but that is not necessarily what is best for us in the long-term.

Some of God’s greatest gifts (TO US), are unanswered prayers.  And we have to remember that it isn’t because He doesn’t care, it is because He does.
Katy Manning Schutte