Prayer “Bank Account”
The Power of Prayer “Bank Account” –do you know how this works? Let me tell you my story.
In the 1940’s I was placed in an Orphanage, and this was to be for just a short time. My mother was expecting twins – she was only a small-bone woman – and each of the twins when born, weigh in at 8 1/2 pounds. My father was working at the “POST Office” and was receiving a small pension from when he was the the Arny.
After the twins were born, my mother’s teeth took a real hit. When a woman does not get the proper nutrition and correct vitamins, the babies will take from the mother’s system – everything they need. So, the “Catholic Charities” organization that placed us in their “Orphanage” – told my mother that she needed to have her teeth fixed before we were to go home with her.
The next hold-up in our returning home to be with our parents, was that “CC” had time to garnish my dad’s pay for our care in the orphanage. So, he quits a perfectly good government job. That did not stop “CC” – they went after his pension and were able to get paid for our care.
When visiting Sunday came along – the one and only thing on my mind was – when do we get to go home, to be with our parents? The same old answer – that I always got – “we are doing everything that they want us to do – but they always have something else that has to be done!”
So this is where putting “prayers in the Bank” started! I said every prayer that I could find that might be the one special one for us (my brothers and my self to get to go home) but no single prayer did anything? I even started making “novenas” and to each “Saint” that I was told had miraculous powers. I even, would burn candles – as some “Novenas” called for. I never gave up, I did pray and always with the one and only “HOPE” – that soon I would get to go home! I was in the orphanage until the day I graduated from the 8th grade. That was (7) seven long years. At the age I am now – I understand things a lot better. Every body has to go through a period of learning and when would a better time come along – then when you are young and can take the harder knocks that are thrown your way. It ‘s never easy learning – but once you learn to stay on the “right course” in life you can accomplish so much more.
All those “Prayers” went into my “Bank” account in Heaven – and with interest – all the days of my life – I now have to give “Thanks” to my Heavenly Creator – for giving to me – the best family that I now have here on earth, and for ever more!
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